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...laboratory research only; to Shultz in Moscow he defined "laboratory research" as including tests of SDI components that could be conducted on the ground. That did not necessarily bring an agreement any closer. The U.S. insists on conducting tests in space also, and indeed on the right eventually to deploy SDI. Gorbachev has demanded that stern limits on SDI accompany any Soviet-American agreement on deep cuts in long-range nuclear missiles, and on that his position is unchanged...
...shall now proceed to the central question of the package approach. A seemingly serious argument is cited in defense of the package principle: imagine that the U.S.S.R. abandons the package and agrees to a substantial cut in strategic missiles, while the U.S. maintains its freedom to deploy SDI and at a certain point begins launching SDI components into space -- in the version proposed by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, for example ((Weinberger eight weeks ago called for early deployment of a preliminary SDI, including some space-based components)). Weinberger's project envisions the development of a network of space stations...
...believe it is extremely unlikely that the U.S. would deploy SDI under conditions of an arms reduction, considering the extremely negative political, economic and strategic consequences of deployment and the harm SDI would do to the stability of the world situation. (Prominent U.S. political figures are convinced that Congress would not permit it.) If disarmament begins, the SDI program in the U.S. will lose its popularity...
...course the second scenario is less favorable than the first for the U.S.S.R. But it is also less favorable for the U.S. and for the entire world. This provides reason to hope that the U.S. will not deploy SDI and will limit itself to research, which may even bear fruit in peaceful areas...
...setting up the SDI project, President Reagan signed a directive requiring that the system be "cost effective at the margin." Translation: adding new defenses must be cheaper than it would cost the Soviets to deploy missiles to counter them. Critics charge that hastily embarking on a smart- rocks system is a way to evade this requirement. "Phased deployment is an effort to obfuscate the 'cost-effective' argument," says Spurgeon Keeny, president of the Arms Control Association. "Supporters will concede that Phase 1 isn't cost effective but will argue that the ultimate, undefined SDI system would be." With so little...