Resisting Pipeline Pressures

Publication Date: July 1982

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Milton R. Copulos

Research Area: Energy; Government

Keywords: Energy and environment

Type: Brief

Coverage: Soviet Union United States

Abstract:

President Reagan's ban on sales of U.S. technology for the Soviet gas pipeline was the right decision, at the right time, in the right way. Had it been taken by a President several years earlier, it would have been much better. But even late, it had to be done.