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...think it is in the interest of national security to shut down SDI. What we have offered is eminently sensible and in keeping with the ABM treaty. It allows us to do (space defense) work that the Soviets have been doing for many years." Yonas believes that limiting SDI to laboratory research for ten years would cripple the program. "There are major experiments planned for SDI that are necessary to evaluate its capabilities, and some of them cannot be done...
...think it was politically possible for the President to have given up SDI and accepted the Soviet package, though I am skeptical about whether SDI can be the ultimate defense screen. What America's allies need to know is exactly what the Administration's intentions are about SDI. What is it supposed to be? If it is a bargaining chip, then at some stage it can and should be used. If it is a crucial part of our defense, then I think we really need to know more about how it's going to do that and what the implications...
...good proposal for us. The Soviet offer to allow SDI research in the laboratory is meaningless. You must test to assemble and retain a top staff. But they thought they had Reagan in a vulnerable position with the elections coming up. They figured him badly. But Reagan never should have put himself in this position. Putting together a deal on intermediate-range forces, followed by a summit, is one thing. But to confront major changes at Reykjavik was a mistake. Still, the idea that we've lost a golden opportunity is nonsense. There's no reason why this...
...meet the Soviets at Reykjavik. The U.S. was prepared to take substantial risks to reach an agreement -- and still the Soviets insisted on their terms. In the final analysis, the Soviets proved that they're not interested in fair and equitable reductions. They're interested only in killing SDI. But SDI is not a bargaining chip. It shouldn't be. I don't believe the Soviets are serious about reducing their nuclear arsenal. We ought to get as heavy a cut in offensive forces as possible. That doesn't preclude us from defending ourselves...
...Western security, the nuclear deterrent continues to represent the ultimate reality. Yet the President was prepared to negotiate it away at Reykjavik almost heedlessly. By contrast, SDI is treated as if it were a reality (the "key to a world without nuclear weapons") instead of a collection of technical experiments and distant hopes...