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...appropriating any more money for these purposes if it were known that money could not subsequently be used. But on the other hand, if billions and billions of dollars had already been spent on research, then nobody is going to stop because all that money had been invested in SDI. And so then, once space weapons are deployed, once they are in space, then nobody could control that process. And that is what I mean when I say that we would come to an unpredictable phase in relations. And of course you have to bear in mind that the other...
When they talk about the purely scientific research nature of the SDI at this stage, they do so to somehow conceal that what is under way today is the whole process of developing space-weapons systems. The very fact that the U.S. is now planning to test a second-generation antisatellite system is fraught with the most serious consequences. We will surely react. This test, in effect a test of a second-generation ASAT system, means in fact testing an element of a space-based...
...cannot take in earnest the assertions that the SDI would guarantee invulnerability from nuclear weapons, thus leading to the elimination of nuclear weapons. In the opinion of our experts (and, to my knowledge, of many of yours), this is sheer fantasy. However, even on a much more modest scale, in which the Strategic Defense Initiative can be implemented as an antimissile defense system of limited capabilities, the SDI is very dangerous. This project will, no doubt, whip up the arms race in all areas, which means that the threat of war will increase. That is why this project...
...Gorbachev has publicly threatened to pull out of the arms talks unless the U.S. gives up its attempt to develop a space-based antiweapons system, known as Star Wars, or the Strategic Defense Initiative. Soviet Spokesman Vladimir Lomeiko last week indicated that Gorbachev will directly press his opposition to SDI with Reagan...
...Soviets treat SDI with a mixture of ridicule and alarmism and would like to see the Reagan Administration pressured by Congress and the NATO allies into abandoning the scheme altogether. They want the world to believe that the idea of strategic defense is something new under the sun, and that it emanates exclusively from the diabolical brains of American warmongers. In fact, the U.S.S.R. bears a large share of the blame for the renewed American interest in defenses. The Soviets have built up their offensive forces to a level that is difficult to justify as purely retaliatory. They have prompted...