Word: abrahamson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many people think this is just a group of scientists drawing on a blackboard saying 'yes, this is possible,'" Air Force Lt. General James A. Abrahamson said at an Institute of Politics Forum. "Chunks of progress are being made and the chunks are starting...
Lieut. General James Abrahamson, head of the Strategic Defense Initiative, disclosed last week that the U.S. had recently aimed a powerful laser at part of a Titan II on the ground in New Mexico and had "blasted the thing just absolutely apart." The test was research for the President's Star Wars defense against missiles. Hitting a grounded target may have been a breeze, but the potency of the laser also showed the potential kinship in technology between knocking out satellites and destroying missiles...
...different technologies eventually would probably be used in combination. But, of course, the systems will develop at different speeds, assuming all or any prove feasible. Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, who heads the Pentagon Strategic Defense Initiative Office, foresees a three-stage development: initial deployment of a "robust" defense, presumably relying mainly on kinetic-energy devices, to be started only if and when R. and D. indicates that a second and then a third generation of more sophisticated weapons will follow in not too many years...
Named as the project's overseer was Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, a tall, slim officer who made his name by helping to develop the lean and mean F-16 fighter jet in the 1970s. Abrahamson's office, in a drab rented building two blocks from the White House, is dominated by a large conference table and a blackboard on which he constantly chalks diagrams. Budgeted at $1.4 billion in the current year, the SDI is scheduled to spend some $26 billion over five years. There are fewer than 100 full-time staffers; most of the funds...
...projected from a satellite (see chart)? Or should the system be based on the ground, with beams bounced off reflecting mirrors in space? Would a system be strategically acceptable if even one of the 5,800 Soviet nuclear warheads were to penetrate it? "It's too early to say," Abrahamson answers when asked such specific questions. "That's what the research program is supposed to tell us. It may take decades, and we can't now even imagine some of the technology we'll be using...