SDI's Trillion Dollar Dividend

Publication Date: March 1988

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

Author(s): Grant Loebs

Research Area: Military and defense; Science and technology

Keywords: National security

Type: Report

Abstract:

The Strategic Defense Initiative may offer the U.S. a means of ending the nuclear arms race by eliminating the threat of a successful Soviet first strike. SDI thus deserves support on its merits, as a way to safeguard the U.S. and the Free World from Soviet nuclear blackmail and attack. As SDI scientists pursue this goal, however, their intense and concentrated research also is yielding scientific breakthroughs of enormous value to U.S. conventional military programs and to U.S. industry and medicine. These benefits should be made known to the American public, to help SDI get the enthusiastic public support it deserves.