Strategic defense and the Western alliance

Book · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:5380305

Lakoff, S; Willoughby, R ^[1]

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1. Univ. of California, CA (US)

Strategic defense has again become a major item on the agenda of the Western Alliance. Revived by President Ronald Reagan in his Star Wars speech of March 1983, and implemented in his Strategic Defense Initiative, it has achieved renewed emphasis in military spending, in alliance research efforts, and in arms control negotiations. SDI is packaged in a way that makes it the largest single item in the Department of Defense's annual budget. It engages researchers in industrial and military laboratories on both sides of the Atlantic as well as in Japan and Israel. In the arms control negotiations now under way between the United States and the USSR, the conduct of this research and its implications for the strategic balance and the reduction of offensive weapons are critical considerations. The implications of this largely unexpected development are the subject of this book.

• OSTI ID: 5380305
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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