Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 over several years, each armed with several dozen antimissile missiles to destroy Soviet ICBMs in the boost phase of their trajectory. In addition, a network of sensors, reconnaissance and battle-management stations would be created. The purported danger of this system is that it would not be effective against the currently existing number of Soviet missiles, but would be sufficient, after that...
Simultaneously, the U.S.S.R. could begin accelerated development of antisatellite weapons and space mines, which would enable it to destroy or paralyze the U.S. SDI system. It would be especially easy to destroy the comparatively few reconnaissance stations. The cost to the Soviet Union would increase, but it would not exceed acceptable levels. It would be comparable to the expense of sticking to the package approach and the existing level of the arms race...
This is where the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) comes in. As the U.S. achieves the ability to destroy more and more of the Soviet missile force in a surprise attack, SDI becomes more and more sensible--and more and more insidious. Star Wars is not primarily intended to shield the United States from a Soviet first strike. This, according to most experts, is an impossible task. Rather, its purpose would be to mop up the small percentage of Soviet missiles that would escape a U.S. first strike...
...contrast, features provocative political notions: that deadly arsenals are essential to being a superpower ("Without nuclear weapons, America is Canada, only with more people") and that the prospect of Armageddon is titillating to much of mankind ("The most exciting thing in the world is to know we can destroy the world. Like that...
...toothbrush stays in the same place, but I don't have to. We have no future. Zero. Plans for retirement, zero. Plans for college for the kids, zero. I can tell you maybe three months ahead, but no more. We realize thinking too much about tomorrow can destroy today." A dolphin plashed, and Michel said, "I have a very small house but a very big garden...