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If the Soviets do offer to give up their largest missiles, they would probably demand that the U.S. give up the MX and the Trident II as well. That would be difficult to accept. There are widespread questions about how to base the MX and about Congress's willingness to...
To Ronald Reagan, the mutual suicide pact that has precariously preserved the nuclear peace for the past quarter-century is unacceptable, indeed immoral. Why not, he asked in his famous Star Wars speech, switch from a policy of mutual assured destruction (MAD) to one of mutual assured survival by creating...
At a conference in Washington on SDI sponsored by TIME on June 3, the discussions revealed that fundamental disagreements still exist about the nature of the program. Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle and Chief SDI Scientist Gerold Yonas agreed that SDI should not initially be regarded as a way...
Discussing the ABM treaty, Lieut. General James Abrahamson, director of SDI, said that his program might confront "a problem in terms of the narrow interpretation of the treaty somewhere in 1989," two years earlier than previous Administration estimates. Perle declared that a new, looser interpretation of the ABM treaty, one...
Hamre is about as far as you can get from the man who oversaw the Policy Board until 2004: Reagan Pentagon official and neo-conservative hero Richard Perle. Hamre runs the distinctly moderate and internationalist Center for Strategic and International Studies, had a hand in organizing the Iraq Study Group...