 | Jonathan Samuel Lockwood, Kathleen O'Brien Lockwood - 1993 - 246 pages
...23 March, 1983 speech, he outlined the basic rationale for the Strategic Defense Initiative: . . . What if free people could live secure in the knowledge...their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles... | |
 | Allan M. Winkler - 1999 - 308 pages
...them?" Then he unveiled his own ideas for a novel strategic approach. "What if free people," he asked, "could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles... | |
 | Martin J. Medhurst, H. W. Brands - 2000 - 310 pages
...spending, he recognized the need for a response that released Americans from the fear of the nuclear age. "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge...their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles... | |
 | 2000 - 376 pages
...technology that spawned our great industrial base and that have given us the quality of life we enjoy today. What if free people could live secure in the knowledge...their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles... | |
 | Jim F. Watts, Fred L. Israel - 2000 - 416 pages
...technology that spawned our great industrial base and that have given us the quality of life we enjoy today. What if free people could live secure in the knowledge...their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles... | |
 | Bruce J. Schulman - 2001 - 353 pages
...lasers, honing rockets, particle beams — that would knock out Soviet missiles before they could land. "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge...their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack?" the president asked a national television audience. What... | |
 | Richard Butler - 2009 - 206 pages
...that would accompany reductions in nuclear weapons — by posing some seemingly sensible questions: "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge...their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles... | |
 | Ronald Reagan - 2022 - 318 pages
...technology that spawned our great industrial base and that have given us the quality of life we enjoy today. What if free people could live secure in the knowledge...their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles... | |
 | Robert Mann - 2002 - 390 pages
...opposition from the Soviets and from some American scientists and politicians. Quotes from the Cold What if free people could live secure in the knowledge...their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles... | |
 | Sean Hannity - 2004 - 364 pages
...March 1983 President Reagan delivered a speech that would change the course of history. In it he asked, "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge...their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles... | |
| |
What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant US retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil... 
