Strategic {open_quote}deception{close_quote} initiative

Journal Article · Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1993 · Arms Control Today

OSTI ID:45358

Pike, J

Veteran observers of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) were only mildly surprised by reports in late August by Tim Weiner in The New York Times and R. Jeffrey Smith in The Washington Post that the Homing Overlay Experiment (HOE) tests of 10 years ago involved deception. According to the reports, the fourth and final test, conducted June 10, 1984, and said at the time by officials to be a major success, has been rigged in several ways in a systematic program designed to fool the Kremlin. The news reports charge that it fooled Congress as well. The Pentagon claimed that the test was the world`s first successful direct-impact intercept of a mock Soviet reentry vehicle (RV).

• OSTI ID: 45358
• Journal Information: Arms Control Today, Vol. 23, Issue 9; Other Information: PBD: Nov 1993
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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