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Supports A. ii. c. -- 2009-05-14
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Mike Hirschi's List: SDI Paper
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That budget is much more than a long list of numbers, for behind all the numbers lies America's ability to prevent the greatest of human tragedies and preserve our free way of life in a sometimes dangerous world.
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We start by considering what must be done to maintain peace and review all the possible threats against our security. Then a strategy for strengthening peace and defending against those threats must be agreed upon. And finally our defense establishment must be evaluated to see what is necessary to protect against any or all of the potential threats. The cost of achieving these ends is totaled up and the result is the budget for national defense.
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Supports C. iv.
same site as before
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The historians at the Missile Defense Agency, however, trace the link to a March 24, 1983, article from The Washington Post. This article quotes Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts), who described the president’s proposal as “reckless Star Wars schemes.” -
Supports C. iii.
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:wtl965vyagkJ:www.smdc.army.mil/2008/Historical/Eagle/WheredowegetStarWars.pdf+http://www.smdc.army.mil/2008/Historical/Eagle/WheredowegetStarWars.pdf&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
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"Excuse me Mr. President," [Gorbachev] said, voice rising, "but I cannot take your idea of sharing SDI seriously. You are not willing to share with us oil well equipment, digitally guided machine tools, or even milking machines. Sharing SDI would provoke a second American revolution! Let's be realistic and pragmatic."
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Research and development initiated by the SDIO created significant technological advances in computer systems, component miniaturization, sensors and missile systems that form the basis for current systems.
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in theory, the energy from the warhead detonation would be used to pump a series of laser emitters in the missiles or satellites, allowing each satellite to shoot down many incoming warheads simultaneously. The attraction of this approach was that it was thought to be faster than an optical laser, which could only shoot down warheads one at a time, limiting the number of warheads each laser could destroy in the short time 'window' of an attack.
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"peace shield"
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On March 23, 1983 in a televised address to the nation, U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced his intention to embark upon groundbreaking research into a national defense system that could make nuclear weapons obsolete. The research took a number of forms which collectively were called the Strategic Defense Initiative, or SDI.
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The Yalta Conference in February 1945 appeared to expose the problems and contradictions of Roosevelt's two‐track approach. The Allies clashed over the composition of Poland's government, and could not reach firm agreements on the crucial questions of the occupation of Germany and postwar reparations and loans. Roosevelt, believing any truly representative government in Warsaw would be anti‐Soviet, accepted a vague compromise that allowed the Soviet‐imposed government to maintain control without technically violating the agreement.
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