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...however, a game with most uncertain prospects. Mikhail Gorbachev and his chief Americanologist, Georgi Arbatov, have been talking of Soviet eagerness to negotiate arms reduction. Arbatov, on a December visit to Washington, went so far as to hint about a compromise on SDI that would permit a vigorous research-and-develo pment program, prohibiting only advanced, large-scale testing that could lead to quick deployment. However, such remarks may be intended partly to intensify pressure on Reagan to make a deal -- and intensify criticism if he does not. Gorbachev's refusal to repeat the televised New Year greetings that...
...Reykjavik during the hastily called summit, where he played the superpower game like a grand master. A confident but ill-prepared President Reagan was lured into a no-win confrontation over the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative. By offering the near total elimination of nuclear weapons in exchange for restricting SDI to the laboratory, Gorbachev momentarily captured the propaganda high ground. Reagan attempted to outbid him by promising to do away with all nuclear weapons, but the President was nonetheless pictured as the advocate of military escalation while Gorbachev came across as the man of peace. Sophisticated analysts in the West...
...space-based missile- defense system, or Strategic Defense Initiative. Western analysts say the teaming of Gorbachev and Sakharov on this issue is not farfetched, given their mutual commitment to arms control. Observes a diplomat: "Judging by what Sakharov has said and written in the past, he would be against SDI if he expressed an opinion...
Unfortunately, Reagan's masterful public relations blitz after the summit managed to convince Americans by a 3-1 margin that SDI is essential to U.S. interests. But what would people say if they knew of its offensive potential...
...possibility cannot be ruled out that the prohibitive costs of building a defensive system might force the government to concentrate solely on the offensive aspects of SDI. In any case, if the U.S. were to deploy the Strategic Defense-Offense Initiative, we would have spent hundreds of billions of dollars--yet would have gone right back to where we started from. Back to mutually assured destruction, the MAD doctrine raised to the power of two. We would still be hostages of our own destructive technology...