It is a Strategic Defense Initiative aimed ultimately at finding a nonnuclear defense against ballistic missiles.
The Strategic Defense Initiative and antiballistic missiles, with their defensive nature, fit perfectly, he says.
Not coincidentally, the first commander of the newly-created Strategic Defense Initiative Organization was an Air Force general.
Henry Cooper, the former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization which can be accessed via www.highfrontier.org.
From its inception, the Strategic Defense Initiative has undergone the perils of Pauline.
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Henry Cooper, former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization and former Chief Negotiator at the U.S.-Soviet Defense and Space Talks in Geneva.
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The Strategic Defense Initiative and antiballistics fit perfectly, he says.
Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, and the Hon.
Ronald Reagan launched his Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983 out of a conviction that it would be better to "protect American lives than to avenge them" after a nuclear missile attack.
Henry Cooper, former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative.
The U.S. embrace in the fall of 1989 of a Soviet ploy by which it purported to retract an earlier linkage between a START treaty and the negotiation of additional limits on the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative.
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He began developing the Strategic Defense Initiative.
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As I testified last February before a subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, this view was confirmed by my own experience in negotiating an agreement with the Japanese concerning Japan's participation in the Strategic Defense Initiative.
In its first paper, published in August 1988, the Center for Security Policy warned that the ABM Treaty had not worked out as intended and urged that what was then known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) developed and deployed.
In recent weeks, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to sharply reduce the amounts requested for the rail-mobile MX and the road-mobile Midgetman missile, for the B-2 "Stealth" bomber and the advanced cruise missile, and for the Strategic Defense Initiative in the FY1990 Defense authorization bill.
In a January 25, 1987, article he co-wrote in the New York Times Magazine, Mr. Scowcroft compared Mr. Reagans tax cuts with the Gippers decision to walk out of the Reykjavic summit with the Soviet Union rather than give up on the Star Wars strategic defense initiative.
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In a few short paragraphs, tacked onto the tail end of an appeal for popular support for the modernization of America's nuclear forces, however, Mr. Reagan launched what came to be known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) -- and forever changed the debate about how to provide for this nation's security.
Subsequently, in private conversations, he admitted the real reason: It was not that he was unpersuaded of the merits of the case but was simply determined to prevent the United States from having an excuse to pursue a President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, to which he from the political Right and virtually everyone on the European Left vehemently objected.
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