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S.

STRATEGIC DEFENSE AND
ANTI-SATELLITE WEAPONS

HEARING

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

34-385 O

APRIL 25, 1984

Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Relations

Stanford Law Library
GPO Depository

JUL 1 6 1994

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON 1984

CONTENTS

Hearing day:

April 25, 1984

Statement of:

Abrahamson, Lt. Gen. James A., Director, Strategic Defense Initiative

Organization, accompanied by John Gardner...

Page

1

12

181, 187

Buchheim, Ambassador Robert W., U.S. Representative to the 1978-79

United States-Soviet Union ASAT talks, Phoenix, Ariz.....

Carnesale, Albert, professor of public policy and academic dean, John F.

Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge,

Mass

179, 207

Cooper, Dr. Robert S., Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects

Agency

Drell, Dr. Sidney D., deputy director, Stanford Linear Accelerator, Stan-

ford, Calif.

177,

Gibbons, Dr. John H., Director, Office of Technology Assessment, accom-

panied by Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Office of Technology Assessment con-

sultant, MIT; and Dr. Peter Sharfman, program manager, Office of

Technology Assessment..

Keyworth, George A., II, Science Adviser to the President.

Perle, Hon. Richard N., Assistant Secretary of Defense for International

Security Policy

Insertions for the record:

Prepared statement of Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson

Prepared statement of Dr. Robert S. Cooper

Panel Urges Defense Technology Advances-reprinted from Aviation

Week & Space Technology, October 17, 1983..

Study Urges Exploiting of Technologies-reprinted from Aviation Week

& Space Technology, October 24, 1983.

Defensive Technologies Study Sets Funding Profile Options-reprinted
from Aviation Week & Space Technologies, October 24, 1983..
Shuttle May Aid in Space Weapons Test-reprinted from Aviation Week
& Space Technologies, October 31, 1983...

U.S. Realigns Program on Ballistic Missile Defense-reprinted from Avia-
tion Week & Space Technology, January 23, 1984..
Weapons Bureaucracy Spurns Star Wars Goal--reprinted from Science,
April 6, 1984

Star Wars Panels Highlight Uncertainties—reprinted from Science, April
6, 1984........

Prepared statement of Hon. Gerard C. Smith.

Avoiding a Crippling Space-Weapons Race—reprinted from the Los Ange-

les Times, January 6, 1983....

Bar Weapons in Space-reprinted from the New York Times, January 13,

1983.

Space-Based Lasers-Summary of Missions......

Defense Against Ballistic Missiles-An Assessment of Technologies and

Policy Implications......

Ballistic Missile Defenses and U.S. National Security-A summary report

prepared for the Future Security Strategy Study, October 1983..

The Strategic Defense Initiative-Defensive Technologies Study, March

125

1984

141

Biographical data of Dr. Sidney D. Drell.

176

Biographical data of Albert Carnesale....

178

Page

Insertions for the record-Continued

Anti-Satellite Weapons, and Some Related Matters-prepared remarks of

Ambassador Robert W. Buchheim, Peace Palace, The Hague, March 12,

1984.

Prepared statement of Hon. Robert W. Buchheim

Prepared statement of Dr. Sidney D. Drell.

Prepared statement of Albert Carnesale.....

Is Verification Impossible?-reprinted from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch,

March 21, 1984..

Double Standard in Space-reprinted from the Los Angeles Times, April
9, 1984.

Satellite Destroyers-We Musn't Fall Behind-or Give Up on Negotiat-

ing-reprinted from the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, April 4, 1984 ..

Hephaestian Folly in Space-reprinted from the New York Times, April
16, 1984..

Stop Satellite Killers at the Negotiating Table-reprinted from the Phila-

delphia Inquirer, April 13, 1984...

190

195

201

211

224

225

225

226

227

228

Infinite Shooting Gallery-reprinted from the Los Angeles Times, April
4, 1984....

Administration Resists Demands for ASAT Ban-reprinted from Science,

October 28, 1983...

229

Quest for Nuclear Sanctuary-reprinted from the Washington Post, April
4, 1984.

232

Courting a New Arms Race-reprinted from the New York Times, April
10, 1984..

232

"Star Wars" Has Been Badly Oversold-reprinted from the Los Angeles

Times, April 9, 1984

234

Let's Use Caution on "Star Wars"-reprinted from the Los Angeles

Times, March 29, 1984.

235

Bonn Worried by U.S. Plans for Space Weaponry-reprinted from the

Washington Post, April 11, 1984...

236

Prepared statement of Dr. John H. Gibbons..

244

Directed Energy Missile Defense in Space-background paper prepared

for the Office of Technology Assessment, April 1984.

Space-Based Missile Defense, a report by the Union of Concerned Scien-

tists....

259

345

Dr. Drell's responses to additional questions submitted by Senator

Pressler......

349

OTA's responses to additional questions submitted by Senator Pressler.

Department of Defense comments on OTA's background paper on “Di-

rected Energy Missile Defense in Space," May 8, 1984..

349

OTA's response to General Abrahamson's comments on background

paper entitled "Directed Energy Missile Defense in Space," May 17,

1984

Appendix:

Letter to Senator Pressler from Mrs. Eilene Galloway, dated April 25,

1984, submitting a statement of the results of a symposium held at the

Peace Palace, The Hague, on Conditions Essential for Maintaining

Outer Space for Peaceful Uses........

Statement of the Center for Strategic Information, Washington, D.C ......

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353

357

360