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Gorbachev seemed equally committed. Receiving Shultz in Moscow, he said the Washington finesse on SDI was still fine with him. Shultz came home optimistic, telling colleagues that he was sure the Soviets would not let the SDI issue get in the way of an agreement...
...principal factor in this frustration was not SDI. Nor did it have much to do with the reduction of strategic ballistic missiles. Instead, the insurmountable final obstacle to an agreement for next week proved to be the dilemma of how a START treaty should deal with a low-flying, slow-flying weapon that barely qualified as strategic. This is the nuclear-armed sea- launched cruise missile, a jet-powered drone that can be fired from a submarine or surface ship at targets on land...
...convince Gorbachev that the two had an opportunity to free the world from the "uncivilized doctrine" of mutually assured destruction. "I simply cannot condone the notion," said Reagan, "of keeping the peace by threatening to blow each other away. We must be able to find a better way." SDI, he said, was a better way. After a long pause, Gorbachev replied, calmly, slowly, in his most authoritative baritone. But his vehemence grew as he spoke about his suspicions: "What you call research" on SDI had the potential of producing "offensive nuclear weapons circling the earth." The U.S. was "plotting...
...aggressive purposes. "Why don't you trust me now?" Reagan asked. Gorbachev turned the question around: Why didn't Reagan trust him? The President said that any American leader must base policy not on trust but on a sober assessment of the other side's capabilities. Precisely, said Gorbachev: SDI could upset military "parity" and the strategic balance. "It looks," he added, "as though we've reached an impasse...
...intruder's appetite for military data is what eventually did him in. To trick him into staying connected long enough to effect a telephone trace, Stoll dangled an irresistible lure: a file of bogus Star Wars information titled SDI Network Project. The sting worked. The hacker stayed on the line for more than an hour, greedily loading the phony data into his home computer. (The information was booby-trapped as well, containing an address in Berkeley for more information on the fictitious project.) West German authorities, working with the FBI, traced the call to the Hannover apartment, questioned its occupant...