It is a Strategic Defense Initiative aimed ultimately at finding a nonnuclear defense against ballistic missiles.
Unfortunately, ground-based systems alone simply cannot achieve the leverage needed to provide an effective strategic defense.
The Strategic Defense Initiative and antiballistic missiles, with their defensive nature, fit perfectly, he says.
Nunn, have nonetheless seemed a bit uncomfortable with being cast as opponents of any strategic defense whatsoever.
China has strategic defense interests and has been building a military that can defend and advance them.
It is striking therefore that now-President Clinton appears set to reduce dramatically the U.S. strategic defense program.
Not coincidentally, the first commander of the newly-created Strategic Defense Initiative Organization was an Air Force general.
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Henry Cooper, the former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization which can be accessed via www.highfrontier.org.
From its inception, the Strategic Defense Initiative has undergone the perils of Pauline.
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During his military career, he briefly served as commanding general of the U.S. Army Space and Strategic Defense command.
Such considerations argue for an invigorated strategic defense program aimed at deploying such space-based defenses at the earliest possible time.
The Soviet Union has invested approximately as much in strategic defense over the past twenty years as it has in strategic offense arms.
Henry Cooper, former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and former Chief Negotiator at the U.S.-Soviet Defense and Space Talks in Geneva.
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Moscow is investing heavily in laser and space-oriented strategic defense activities.
"This policy review, known as the Strategic Defense Review, placed considerable emphasis on the need to communicate to maintain modern forces for a modern world, " Smith said.
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The Strategic Defense Initiative and antiballistics fit perfectly, he says.
Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, and the Hon.
The general thrust of the Davis-Hammond approach is to concentrate U.S. missile defense efforts almost entirely within the Army at the service's Strategic Defense Command facility in Huntsville, Alabama.
Strategic Defense: The United States should, as a critical part of this strategic package approach, begin preparations at once for deployment of the first phases of defenses against ballistic missiles.
Ronald Reagan launched his Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983 out of a conviction that it would be better to "protect American lives than to avenge them" after a nuclear missile attack.
Henry Cooper, former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative.
The simple truth of the matter is that the same lessons I noted at the outset in connection with Israeli interests in strategic defense are true in spades for the United States.
Offensive counterfire, considered by some to be an acceptable alternative to strategic defense, is not necessarily a reliable means of either deterring an adversary from attacking with ballistic missiles or limiting the effectiveness of such an attack.
The U.S. embrace in the fall of 1989 of a Soviet ploy by which it purported to retract an earlier linkage between a START treaty and the negotiation of additional limits on the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative.
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He began developing the Strategic Defense Initiative.
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As I testified last February before a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, this view was confirmed by my own experience in negotiating an agreement with the Japanese concerning Japan's participation in the Strategic Defense Initiative.
In its first paper, published in August 1988, the Center for Security Policy warned that the ABM Treaty had not worked out as intended and urged that what was then known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) developed and deployed.
The first few minutes of the film take us with speed and accuracy backwards on the timeline of our nations history with the intensity and intrigue of TV's "24" while simultaneously and accurately contextualizing how the US came to its present strategic defense posture.
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