Word: sdi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...analyst says plans to deploy 100 ground-based interceptors by 1997 -- rather than 2002, as he recommends -- to fend off small-scale nuclear attacks cannot proceed without major cost overruns and performance problems. In the rush to deploy, he says, the military will have to design and start buying SDI before any of the missiles, radar or communications involved are tested. That is hardly a recipe for success: the record of earlier ground-interceptor tests has been ; spotty at best. The proposal, says Chu, violates the fly-before-buy principles that Pentagon leaders "have labored so hard to put into...
What's the rush? Last year Congress ordered speedy deployment of the 100- missile complex at Grand Forks, N. Dak., the only strategic-defense site permitted by the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty. If that agreement can be renegotiated with the Russians, congressional SDI-niks hope to expand Grand Forks into a $35 billion nationwide network of 700 interceptors. But a second leak last week could chill those plans: a draft Pentagon report now concludes that even the proposed national-defense site at Grand Forks would violate the ABM treaty. And that, says Federation of American Scientists space policy director John...
...THOSE NAUGHTY EIGHTIES. The John DeLorean-Stealth Bomber-Dynasty-Gordon Gekko-Material Girl-Black Monday-Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous-SDI-Ivan Boesky-Trump Tower-Trump Palace-Trump Castle decade. The decade of Nancy Reagan's $200,000 china, the Pentagon's $640 toilet seat, the country's $200 billion budget deficits. A shamelessly materialistic decade. An irresponsible decade. A morally bankrupt decade...
...Defense. Clinton would chop $100 billion out of the military budget over the next five years, on top of the $100 billion Bush already proposes to cut. Some suggestions: cancel the B-2 bomber and the SDI antimissile program, cut another two Army divisions and two aircraft-carrier battle groups, in addition to the reductions Bush has suggested...
...SDI should no longer be an issue of left or right, Democratic or Republican. It is a solution that doesn't work to a problem which doesn't exist costing a great deal of money we don't have in a world where it doesn't belong...