Strategic Defense Initiative.

  • Robert Bowman on Star Wars / produced by Pam Burton.

    Speech given at Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament Conference. Bowman details why SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars) will be so costly and impractical to develop and deploy, as well as the potentially dangerous uses of such a system. A former Air Force Colonel, he was in charge of SDI during early stages of…

  • The Quest for peace : the Iceland summit / Ralph Steiner.

    Documentary on the ‘mini-summit’ between President Ronald Reagan and Premier Michael Gorbachev. In that meeting they discussed the elimination of nuclear weapons, the implications for SDI (Stretegic Defense Initiative) and potential disarmament talks.

  • Star wars, 1985 : Reagan and the Strategic Defense Initiative.

    Philip Morrison, Robert Jastow, Sydney Drell, John Pike, I.F. Stone, Admirals Eugene Carroll and Gene LaRoque, and General Tomay, discuss President Reagan’s proposed Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars). They discuss if it will provide a defense, the hidden motives, its role as a deterrent, its feasability, cost considerations, impact on U.S.-Soviet relations, and possible alternatives…