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...S.D.I. proves technologically feasible, serious questions would arise as to whether it would really strengthen deterrence, and at what cost. Estimates of the money required start at $60 billion for a rudimentary system that would rely on interceptor rockets. Calculations of the cost of a fully developed laser- or particle-beam system run all the way from $100 billion to a staggering $1 trillion. Such a broad range means that all the figures are fairly wild guesses. Indeed, Cory Coll, leader of an S.D.I. research group at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, predicts it will...
Missile-guidance computer programs so complex that they can be written and tested only by other computer programs. A laser weapon that can release death rays in the nanoseconds before it is obliterated by its own power source, an atom bomb. A jet fighter that can understand the pilot's spoken commands...
...space-based defense system must itself be defended from pre-emptive attack: to enhance "survivability," the military is at work on a new generation of satellites, armored against laser rays, that can stay parked 22,000 miles over one spot on earth yet dodge enemy missiles and "space mines." Another far- out idea: a "pop-up" defense system that would be fired into space by submarines only after enemy missiles had been launched...
Seventeen seconds laser, Duncan again set Forty up for a 20-ft, jump shot that gave the Lions a 60-58 lend, but on the Columbia inbounds pass, Ferry was forced to commit his fourth foul of the last 45 seconds...
Even so, it is in large part the fear of Star Wars that brought the Kremlin back to the bargaining table. The Soviets are afraid that U.S. computer wizardry and advances in laser and particle-beam research will leave them far behind in a space arms race. For the past six months Moscow has conducted a deft propaganda campaign of mir i druzhba--peace and friendship--designed to put the onus on the U.S. to avoid what the Soviets call the militarization of space. "It is especially important to avoid the transfer of the arms race to outer space," warned...