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While much of his attention at a Kennedy School of Government symposium on September 5 focused on an airline hijaking in Pakistan, Secretary of Defense Casper W. Weinberger '38 took time to praise the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense initiative (SDI) as the best, realistic deterrent to nuclear...
...prominent Swedish diplomat and a U.S. Congressman yesterday attacked the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and instead called for nuclear arms control, in a symposium entitled "International Relations in an Interdependent World: A Look at Ends and Means...
...Invulnerability is a dangerous illusion. SDI may accelerate the arms race," said Maj Britt Theorin, Swedish ambassador to the Disarmament Conference in Geneva. "Technological advantage in any weapons system can only be temporary and can never lead to permanent security," she said in a panel moderated by Radcliffe president Matina S. Horner and Naomi Chazan...
...secretary said the "moral difference" between the two superpowers forces The U.S. to develop SDI and bolster its military arsenal to make it clear to the Soviets that "it would be in their national interest not to fight and not to launch an attack...
Forsberg, however, criticized SDI as more a complement than deterrent to the threat of nuclear war, "which could conceivably convince the Soviet fear of a U.S. first strike...