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...America's latest intercontinental ballistic missile, the MX; plans for a small, single-warhead mobile ICBM, the Midgetman; the B-1 and Stealth bombers. You have also urged a ban on all missile test flights. You have indicated that you would terminate or radically reduce the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI...
...have expressed support for NATO and called for a "conventional defense initiative." This exhortation, which so far is largely lacking in content, seems intended to constitute your substitute for SDI and other new strategic . programs. Those of us who have long advocated an improved conventional capability are eager to join in any serious effort to that end. But you seem not to have faced up to the intractable reality that improvement in the conventional balance is both difficult and costly...
...Cardinal of the Kremlin, the new Jack Ryan airing, deals admiringly with Star Wars technology and thus (SDI cynics might object) is precisely as silly as real life. Never mind; Clancy is back on track. The reader is shown, in quick, effective takes of a few pages each, a giant Soviet military laser weapon under construction in the mountains of central Asia, the operation of an elaborate chain of U.S. spy drops and cutouts in Moscow, an Afghan guerrilla team shooting down Soviet helicopters with Stinger missiles, tense cookie pushing at a disarmament negotiation, and two separate KGB interrogations, including...
...high-stakes atmosphere of what came to be called the lost weekend, the two leaders got into a bout of one-upmanship over who was willing to go further toward total nuclear disarmament. In the end, the meeting collapsed when Gorbachev tried to get Reagan to agree to confine SDI research, development and testing to the laboratory -- a restriction Reagan saw as aimed at "killing" his most cherished program...
...most bizarre encounters in the history of diplomacy. The Soviets lured the Americans to the meeting on the pretext of putting the finishing touches on a separate INF deal. When Reagan arrived, Gorbachev surprised him with a comprehensive package not just on INF, but on START and SDI as well...