Sdi and arms control

Technical Report · Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1989

OSTI ID:5691473

DeWolf, H G

President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, or SDI, and the pursuit of defenses to protect against ballistic missile attack are issues of significant debate. Some praise the proposal, first made in a presidential address to the nation on 23 March 1983, as a grand vision that will abolish nuclear blackmail by adopting a totally defensive posture. Others condemn it as being destabilizing, a Pandora's box of strategic transition that could precipitate armed conflict.

• Research Organization: National Defense Univ., Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 5691473
• Report Number(s): AD-A-271576/1/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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