While Opposing Reagan's SDI , Moscow Pushes Its Own Star Wars


 

Publication Date: October 1986

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

Author(s): Kim R. Holmes

Research Area: Military and defense

Keywords: Russia and Eurasia

Type: Report

Coverage: Soviet Union

Abstract:

The United States must begin building a ballistic missile defense system as soon as possible to counter not only existing Soviet missiles but the threat of a Soviet breakout of the ABM Treaty. The technology for near-term deployment already exists. All that is required is the political will to begin constructkon of a single ABM site at Grand Forks and the acceleration of the development and testing programs for those BMD technologies that show the most promise for near-term deployment.