 | Robert Schlesinger - 2008 - 595 pages
...March 22. "Much of it was to change bureaucratic into people talk," he wrote in his diary that night. "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... | |
 | 284 pages
...March 23, 1983, inaugurating the SDI, President Reagan set an even higher goal for strategic defenses: 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... | |
 | 1984 - 92 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1987 - 1046 pages
...nuclear weapons to prevent nuclear conflict. He presented that vision, and that challenge, in this way: 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1986 - 704 pages
...Defense Initiative. Three years ago President Reagan expressed the conviction that free people should live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of retaliation to deter a Soviet nuclear attack. At that time he described the threat posed by increasing... | |
 | 1985 - 329 pages
...important national goal we can have is assured survival; that is, President Reagan goal of a world in which "free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not depend on the threat of instant retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services - 1985 - 1014 pages
...capabilities. 4. The Strategic Defense Initiative What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that we could Intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies? President Reagan's historic speech on March 23, 1983, challenged the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - 1985 - 976 pages
...forces. D. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies? President Reagan's historic speech on March 23, 1983, challenged the... | |
 | Howard G. DeWolf - 1989 - 43 pages
...we have increasingly based our strategy of deterrence upon the threat of retaliation. But what if... we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies? 1 Was the President proposing a major shift in US national strategy... | |
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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... 
