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Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle intrigued a congressional committee by showing how a modified Apple II computer could be used to direct missile firing and communications. The Reagan Administration has been trying to crack down on the export of powerful computers to the Soviet Union, and last December Defense...
As the May 1 deadline drew closer, Burt again began courting the Joint Chiefs of Staff to see if they would support the State Department against the rest of the Government. As it turned out, they did-for reasons having at least as much to do with their concept of...
On the eve of a May 3 NSC meeting, less than a week before the President was to unveil a proposal in a speech at his alma mater, Eureka College in Illinois, the Joint Chiefs shocked Weinberger and Perle by joining forces with the State Department on a common option...
Perle said that he thought the 850-launcher ceiling was "crazy," adding, "Fortunately, we can count on the Soviets to save us from the stupidity of our own proposal by never accepting it." He and other hard-liners like Rostow agreed with Democratic crit ics of the Administration such as...
Perle was able to use this document to regain ground that he had lost to the State Department. Unless the U.S. insisted on the elimination of the entire Soviet SS-18 force and many of the SS-19s and SS-17s as well, he argued, START would not achieve "our...