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.
One of its first acts upon coming to office was to dismantle the Strategic Defense Initiative program.
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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Some are transparently seeking to kill off the Strategic Defense Initiative piecemeal space-based portions today, ground-based elements tomorrow.
Cooper, a former Director of the Strategic Defense Initiative under President George H.
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The final straw for the Evil Empire was the Strategic Defense Initiative.
And I urge you again to pass the Strategic Defense Initiative, SDI.
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 Center for Security Policy believes that the reductions in funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative recommended by the Senate Armed Services Committee are unwarranted and ill-advised.
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.
It proposes to restructure fundamentally the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) with a view to preventing the executive branch from acquiring an option to deploy a layered, effective defensive system in the near-term.
This ominous outcome is foreshadowed by the announced reorientation of the Strategic Defense Initiative, a program designed first and foremost to protect the American homeland and people to a theater missile defense program.
Thirty years ago on March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced his commitment to develop and deploy an advanced defense capability, the Strategic Defense Initiative, to protect America from a Soviet missile attack.
It is striking that 34 senators voted earlier this week to preserve a higher level of funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative precisely the number needed to block ratification of a deficient START Treaty.
It is striking that 34 senators voted earlier this week to preserve a higher level of funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative -- precisely the number needed to block ratification of a deficient START Treaty.
Indeed, in the face of a once-robust Strategic Defense Initiative begun in 1983 by Ronald Reagan, first the Soviets and then the Russians signed treaties reducing nuclear weapons, including the START II treaty signed in 1993.
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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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The Airborne Laser program is a direct descendent of Ronald Reagan's visionary Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), with its exploration of various means of intercepting and destroying ballistic missiles - including lasers and other "directed energy" techniques.
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.
During the recent ministerial meeting between Secretary of State James Baker and Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, the Soviet Union made a significant new move in its campaign to use arms control to kill the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program.
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Of the latter, the Center believes two are so egregious as to demand presidential rejection of this bill: the effective termination of the MILSTAR communications program and the wholly inadequate funding and legislative hamstringing of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
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.
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