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    A conversation with Ambassador Ken Adelman on Early Deployment

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    Krogh, Peter F. (Peter Frederic)
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    DigitalGeorgetown
    Person Interviewed
    Adelman, Ken
    Abstract
    Examines the consequences of the United States' move towards early deployment of the Strategic Defense Initiative.
    Description
    In 1983 President Ronald Reagan created the Strategic Defense Initiative, a program designed to protect the United States from attack by ballistic missiles through a space-based defense system. Although the program was widely criticized as unrealistic, it worried the Soviet Union, which knew that its fragile economy would be unable to sustain the costs of competing with such a program in the long run. Despite intense pressure from domestic critics and Soviet diplomats, Reagan refused to abandon the program, and at the Reykjavik Summit in October 1986 he rejected proposals that would have confined SDI to laboratory testing only for a period of 10 years. Just four months later, there was talk in Washington of not only continuing the program, but of accelerating efforts with an early deployment of the system's first phase. Questions remained, however, about whether an early deployment of strategic defenses would be beneficial to the U.S., and about the effects such a move would have on the current round of U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms talks in Geneva. In this episode, Peter Krogh sits down with Ambassador Kenneth Adelman, Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, to discuss early deployment of strategic defenses and U.S. Soviet arms control negotiations.
    Permanent Link
    http://hdl.handle.net/10822/552608
    Date
    1987
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    Subject
    Strategic Defense Initiative; Nuclear warfare; Nuclear arms control; United States -- Military policy; Cold War; Defense and National Security; International Diplomacy; Early Deployment of Strategic Defense Initiative; Star Wars; Geneva Talks;
    Location
    International
    Publisher
    WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
     
    Blackwell Corporation (Washington D.C.)
     
    Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service
     
    South Carolina Educational Television Network
     
    Extent
    28 min.
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