The Case for Deploying SDI in the 1990's

Publication Date: March 1987

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

Author(s): Kim R. Holmes

Research Area: Military and defense

Keywords: National security

Type: Report

Abstract:

Deployment of U.S. strategic defense systems could begin as early as 1994. Then it will take another five to seven years to finish building a 90 percent effective strategic defense system. Although the system will not be as effective at the beginning of deployment as when it is completed, in the interim it still will protect the U.S. against accidental Soviet launches, anti-satellite weapons, and limited nuclear attacks on command and control centers in the U.S. and Europe.