...President Reagan called on the nation's scientific community to begin a program that would enable the US to "intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles...they reached our own soil or that of our allies." The new program, called the Strategic Defense Initiative, was to employ two technologies that were...

...President Reagan called on the nation's scientific community to begin a program that would enable the US to "intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles...they reached our own soil or that of our allies." The new program, called the Strategic Defense Initiative, was to employ two technologies that were...

...knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic...not be accomplished before the end of this century. Yet, current technology has attained a level of sophistication where it's reasonable for us to begin...

...knowledge that their security did not rest on the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic...ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil and that of our allies ? Let us say we decided to do that, and some clever Soviet decided well, if...

...knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack; that we could intercept and destroy strategic...not be accomplished before the end of this century. Yet, current technology has attained a level of sophistication where it is reasonable for us to begin...

...knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to defer a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic...not be accomplished before the end of this century. Yet, current technology has attained a level of sophistication where it's reasonable for us to begin...

...knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack; that we could intercept and destroy strategic...they reached our own soil or that of our allies." It was a proposal to unilaterally withdraw from the balance of terror and leave the Soviets exposed...

...knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic...before they reached our own soil or that of our allies? 1 know this is a formidable, technical task, one that may not be accomplished before the end of this...

...knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack; that we could intercept and destroy strategic...they reached our own soil or that of our allies." It was a proposal to unilaterally withdraw from the balance of terror and leave the Soviets exposed...

...Union may have to threaten attack." He asked, "what if free people could live secure in the knowledge that... we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic...they reached our own soil or that of our allies?" The President ordered an assessment of technologies and systems that might provide a defense against...