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The Strategic Defense Initiative: Program Facts (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date July 22, 1987
Report Number IB85170
Authors Steven A. Hildreth, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) is a long-term technology research program to examine the feasibility of developing defenses against ballistic missile attack. The SDI program is also perhaps the most controversial U.S. defense program because it raises so many fundamental questions about national security, nuclear deterrence, arms control, and U.S.-allied and U.S.-Soviet relations.