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...offensive weapons that would burst the remaining bonds of the arms-control process, which has been in stalemate. Yet it has also given the Soviets an incentive to return to the bargaining table and offer serious proposals in the hope of tightening the bonds of arms control around SDI itself. If there is a summit in November or December, Reagan the Star Warrior might be able to extract from Mikhail Gorbachev an agreement-in-principle for a trade-off between existing Soviet offensive forces and the American SDI while it is still only a gleam in the President...
...like its predecessors, its submarine basing makes it invulnerable to a Soviet pre-emptive attack (assuming, of course, that the Soviets do not achieve a breakthrough in antisubmarine warfare). But the stickiest and most controversial part of the trade-off would be the limits the Soviets would demand on SDI. Here their position has been evolving. A year ago they wanted to ban not only development and testing but also research on ''space-strike arms,'' a term they defined in a way that was so comprehensive and one-sided it might have meant the cancellation of the space shuttle. Then...
...debris. In half an hour, this lethal ''threat cloud'' would be over the U.S., raining destruction on cities and military targets alike. Trying to stop this deluge would require enormous technological breakthroughs in at least four areas: sensors, lasers, particle beams and computer programming. Should such advances occur, SDI proponents argue, a reasonably effective Star Wars defense would reduce to virtually zero the number of Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) getting through outer space to their targets. But critics respond that virtually zero is not enough when nuclear weapons are involved. Moreover, the Soviets have other ways to deliver...
AIRWOLF Not an automobile, Airwolf was, like KITT, a product of SDI-era techno-lust. "The Lady," a civilian Bell 222, was later sold to a German firm and used as an air ambulance. It crashed in 1991, killing three passengers...
...controversy over SDI intensified last week. At a White House meeting, President Reagan and his top advisers came close to adopting a Pentagon- sponsored position on SDI testing that the Soviets as well as many congressional and allied leaders insist would be a violation of the 1972 treaty limiting antiballistic missiles (ABMS). The combination of resumed testing and what would amount to a scrapping of the ABM treaty could touch off more protests against Administration policy, both at home and abroad...