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...main stumbling block, both to the summit and to general progress in arms negotiations, remains Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, the space- based defense system better known as Star Wars. "The U.S. has no intention of renouncing SDI," Mitterrand said at the end of his visit. "The U.S.S.R. insists that as long as SDI is maintained, there can be no advance...
...substantive counterproposal to get the summit preparations moving, while the Pentagon and the CIA oppose any concessions that would threaten Star Wars. A meeting last week of midlevel arms-control advisers ended "in total disagreement," said one participant. "We are bogged down here, really stalemated." Unflagging support for SDI also dims the prospect for any agreement on nuclear testing. The Soviets have called for a total moratorium and have not detonated a nuclear device since August 1985. But some of the weapons envisioned by SDI require underground nuclear tests. The Pentagon argues that testing is needed to ensure the reliability...
Carlson said that SDI is likely to perpetuate the arms race because no shield system could possibly be effective enough to convince the U.S. to abandon its nuclear weapons. He also cited the Reagan administration's argument that SDI could be used to protect U.S. missile silos as proof that the program is more an aid than an end to the use of nuclear weapons...
...What I think is misleading is the idea that SDI would change the [nuclear deterrence] equation at all," said Carlson, the first guest of a political discussion series organized by Robert Mascola '86 as part of Harvard's "Summer in Boston" program for Summer School students...
...Visions of Star Wars," a television feature critical of SDI, preceded the discussion...