The Center for Security Policy has learned that a senior member of the National Security Council staff recently explored with key congressional figures how they would react were the White House to announce that it was abandoning the Limited Defense System -- the modest, primarily ground-based SDI program authorized, indeed demanded, by the Missile Defense Act.
In a few short paragraphs, tacked onto the tail end of an appeal for popular support for the modernization of America's nuclear forces, however, Mr. Reagan launched what came to be known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) -- and forever changed the debate about how to provide for this nation's security.
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Finally, the anticipated START-imposed cuts in strategic arms will increase rather than reduce the importance of high technology defense programs such as SDI and the B-2 to protect against Soviet arms control cheating and to protect against the plausible possibility of major instabilities and aggressive challenges emanating from the Soviet Union.
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The comprehensive capability to defend against ballistic missile attack inherent in a space-based SDI is utterly incompatible with the concept of strategic vulnerability to such attack enshrined in that 1972 accord.
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The Center for Security Policy has learned that a senior member of the National Security Council staff recently explored with key congressional figures how they would react were the White House to announce that it was abandoning the Limited Defense System the modest, primarily ground-based SDI program authorized, indeed demanded, by the Missile Defense Act.
Last year, in the absence of such presidential support, SDI was savaged while the B-2 survived.
The micromanaging of the SDI program contemplated by the Bingaman-Shelby amendment is calculated to deny the Pentagon such latitude, however.
Either the Warsaw Pact still represents a major threat to vital Western security interests hence justifying the B-2 bomber, SDI, and other major defense expenditures or it does not.
Unfortunately, the strategy seems more likely to result in the termination of two key defense systems the B-2 bomber and SDI rather than secure for effective strategic defenses the decisive presidential commitment they so clearly need.
In fact, far from "de-linking" START and SDI, the Soviet Union simply changed the terms of that linkage.
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The reason most people have never heard of iHome Audio is because the company is merely a new brand from 45-year old electronics company SDI Technologies.
Worse yet, two individuals reported to be the top contenders to head the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) are known to advocate a dramatic restructuring of the SDI program to feature more expensive, Army-dominated land-based systems with only limited defensive capabilities.
The Dangers of Myopic Parochialism: A principal by-product of a decision to cancel space-based and sea-based elements while reactivating the E2I and GSTS would, of course, be to put almost the entire SDI program into the Army's hands -- much of it centered in Huntsville.
The Bingaman-Shelby amendment hedges against the charge that its sponsors want nothing more than to fritter away finite SDI resources on endless research and development a sort of high-priced "hobby shop, " designed to employ constituents but not to produce anything that might inconveniently prove to be deployable.
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Before going public in 2014 Cheil merged with the Lee family's de facto holding company, Samsung Everland, and another affiliate, Samsung SDI, to create a leading producer of energy-storage solutions, including batteries for autos and consumer electronics, as well as specialty materials used in the manufacture of TVs, semiconductors and smartphones.
We are in our present, vulnerable position in no small measure precisely because of an unwillingness (or inability) on the part of successive Presidents to end the tyranny of an ABM Treaty regime that precluded the deployment, and thus undercut the urgency of developing, anti- missile systems contemplated under the SDI, GPALS and NMD programs.
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The Bush Administration has warmly welcomed the purported Soviet "de-linking" of START from new limits on SDI.
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Insurance Against Noncompliance: SDI will provide essential insurance against Soviet noncompliance with START or full-scale breakout from the ABM Treaty as well as against potential third country missile threats.
Ideally, an underlay of ground-based interceptors would also be deployed in a layered SDI system.
The Center believes that the Bingaman-Shelby amendment and other efforts designed to deny the nation and President Bush the opportunity he has called for -namely to make a decision on deployment of an effective SDI system by 1992 dictate a veto of any legislation to which they are attached.
Assailed from its inception as technologically unachievable, impossibly cost-ineffective and incompatible with U.S. obligations under the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, Congress has consistently provided less funding for SDI than was needed and requested.
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The Airborne Laser program is a direct descendent of Ronald Reagan's visionary Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), with its exploration of various means of intercepting and destroying ballistic missiles - including lasers and other "directed energy" techniques.
If this country's current, complete vulnerability to ballistic missile attack from any quarter is to be eliminated, the DAB must allocate whatever resources are provided the SDI program in such a way as to emphasize and accelerate the pursuit of near-term space- and ground-based defensive systems.
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Hammond -- or anyone else who advocates unduly restrictive and counterproductive plans for restructuring the SDI program.
Regional, Conventional Dimensions: SDI can enhance regional and conventional security and deter adventurism by providing protection against ballistic missiles and high-flying aircraft to U.S. and allied forward-based ground and naval assets including conventional forces throughout the world.
Specifically, it would reduce funding for Brilliant Pebbles, the highly promising and relatively inexpensive space-based interceptors currently envisioned by the Bush Administration as a key component of a deployable SDI system.
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