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Interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press," Baker predicted that Gorbachev would move forward on strategic-weapon cuts "perhaps without requiring as a precondition that the president abandon SDI or reduce SDI or postpone SDI, which he's not going...
Zenith Star stands as a symbol for the ailments besetting the entire Star Wars program. Slowed by development problems and weakened by funding cuts, SDI is a far cry from achieving Reagan's four-year-old dream of a system that could "intercept and destroy" all incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles...
...people associated with SDI see much hope of meeting the target date of 1992 for deciding whether to proceed with the first phase of the system. Deployment of even the most basic systems is unlikely before the end of the century or beyond, and even SDI's director, Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, admits that the program is so far behind that "research does not yet show whether major deployment is justified...
According to Nixon, Gorbachev "said it was simply a myth that the Soviet Union opposed SDI because they feared the enormous cost to their economy. He went on to say that his opposition to SDI was not based on his fear of its ((offensive)) military potential or of our technological edge. He said, 'We have our own space defense program and our research is making progress in different ways than yours is. In any event,' he added, 'we will be able to evade and overcome any SDI system that the U.S. might eventually deploy...
...major objection to SDI," Nixon wrote, was "because he believed that if SDI went forward there would be a massive spiral in the arms race." Once again, Nixon's memo implied that he agreed with Gorbachev, and he urged Reagan to consider a strategic arms deal that would protect the U.S.'s right to continue "purposeful research" in SDI while trading restrictions on deployment for reductions in Soviet missiles...