CONTENTS

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

MARCH 8, 1984

Page

Cooper, Dr. Robert, Director of Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency

2894

Ikle, Dr. Fred C., Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
DeLauer, Dr. Richard D., Under Secretary of Defense for Research and
Engineering

2905

2910

MARCH 22, 1984

Cooper, Dr. Robert, Director of Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency

2948

2948

Miller, Franklin, Director, Strategic Forces Policy, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy__
Rankine, Brig. Gen. Robert R., Assistant for Directed Energy Weapons,
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering-- 2959
Gardner, John L., Director, Defensive Systems, Office of the Under Sec-
retary of Defense for Research and Engineering----

APRIL 24, 1984

Abrahamson, Lt. Gen. James A., Director, Strategic Defense Initiative, ac-
companied by Gen. Elvin Heiberg, U.S. Army, Chief, Army Ballistic
Missile Defense; Gen. Robert Rankine, U.S. Air Force, Strategic Defense
Initiative Activities, Department of Defense; and John Gardner, Direc-
tor, Defensive Systems, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Re-
search and Engineering, Department of Defense---
Smith, Gerard, former Ambassador to the SALT Negotiations.
Kerr, Dr. Donald, Director, Los Alamos Laboratory.

2971

3028

3057

3067

Gray, Colin S., President, National Institute for Public Policy.
Garwin, Dr. Richard, IBM Fellow, Thomas J. Watson Research Center..--
Index

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3109

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SUBCOMMITTEE ON STRATEGIC AND THEATER NUCLEAR FORCES

JOHN W. WARNER, Virginia, Chairman

CONTENTS

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

MARCH 8, 1984

Page

Cooper, Dr. Robert, Director of Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency

2894

Ikle, Dr. Fred C., Under Secretary of Defense for Policy ---
DeLauer, Dr. Richard D., Under Secretary of Defense for Research and
Engineering

2905

2910

MARCH 22, 1984

Cooper, Dr. Robert, Director of Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency

2948

2948

Miller, Franklin, Director, Strategic Forces Policy, Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy-
Rankine, Brig. Gen. Robert R., Assistant for Directed Energy Weapons,
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering 2959
Gardner, John L., Director, Defensive Systems, Office of the Under Sec-
retary of Defense for Research and Engineering--

APRIL 24, 1984

Abrahamson, Lt. Gen. James A., Director, Strategic Defense Initiative, ac-
companied by Gen. Elvin Heiberg, U.S. Army, Chief, Army Ballistic
Missile Defense; Gen. Robert Rankine, U.S. Air Force, Strategic Defense
Initiative Activities, Department of Defense; and John Gardner, Direc-
tor, Defensive Systems, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Re-
search and Engineering, Department of Defense-

2971

3028

Smith, Gerard, former Ambassador to the SALT Negotiations_.
Kerr, Dr. Donald, Director, Los Alamos Laboratory-

3057

3067

Gray, Colin S., President, National Institute for Public Policy–
Garwin, Dr. Richard, IBM Fellow, Thomas J. Watson Research Center...
Index

3075

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1985

THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1984

COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES,

U.S. SENATE,

Washington, DC.

STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE

The committee met in executive session, pursuant to notice, at 10:02 a.m., in room SR-222, Russell Senate Office Building, Senator Barry Goldwater presiding.

Present: Senators Goldwater, Warner, Cohen, Quayle, Wilson, Nunn, Stennis, Kennedy, Bingaman, and Dixon.

Staff present: Robert F. Bott and William E. Hoehn, Jr., professional staff members; Arnold L. Punaro, staff director for the minority; Brenda K. Hudson, assistant chief clerk; Douglas R. Graham, research assistant; and Karen A. Love, staff assistant.

Also present: Gerald J. Smith, assistant to Senator Goldwater; Les Brownlee, assistant to Senator Warner; Robert Savitt, assistant to Senator Cohen; Bernard R. Toon, assistant to Senator Quayle; Mark J. Albrecht, assistant to Senator Wilson; Francis J. Sullivan, assistant to Senator Stennis; Jeffrey B. Subko, assistant to Senator Exon; Matthew H. Murray and James Steinberg, assistants to Senator Kennedy; and Edward McGaffigan, Jr., assistant to Senator Bingaman.

OPENING STATEMENT BY SENATOR BARRY GOLDWATER,

PRESIDING

Senator GOLDWATER. The Armed Services Committee convenes this morning to receive testimony on the President's strategic defense. initiative.

Senator Tower regrets that he is not able to be with us this morning. I welcome our witnesses: Dr. Richard DeLauer, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, and Dr. Fred Ikle, the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. We are pleased to have you with us this morning.

We begin in executive session to receive a briefing on Soviet activities in the area of strategic defense and to provide our witnesses and our members the opportunity to deal with classified matters.

It is Senator Tower's desire to go into open session as soon as we can. After that I will have a more formal statement. I am not a great believer in open sessions. So, we may not have one.

Gentlemen, if you have prepared statements you would like to make part of the record, we will do so.