Word: sdi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United States shows signs once again of pursuing a sensible route to world peace, Bush blew a big chance to back up his rhetoric of a New World Order. Now more than ever, the reasons for the development and deployment of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) are negligible...
Proponents of SDI now point to the "rapidly proliferating" Third World as a source of instability. Currently, 14 developing countries have short-range ballistic missiles; the Bush administration claims that the number might rise to 24 within a decade...
However, no one was willing to accept the Peace Prize for Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb and SDI supporter. The band played the theme from "Star Wars" instead...
...Scud, and you've got the stuff of which a new nightmare is made. Arms control should make an attack by a Third World country on the U.S. less plausible rather than more so. To fend off scores or even hundreds of warheads, the U.S. needs not SDI but a network of ground-based interceptors at perhaps three to five sites. The ABM treaty allows only one site, but it could be amended to permit more. At the same time, the ban on testing and deployment of space- based systems should be strengthened, since those are what could undermine...
...years Sam Nunn, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has been advocating what he calls a "limited-protection system." Last week the Senate endorsed that goal. The gung-ho SDI enthusiasts don't like the scheme because they believe, correctly, that Nunn doesn't want Brilliant Pebbles to get off the ground. On the other side are arms-control purists who see the ABM treaty as holy writ and fear it can't survive any tinkering...