| Partha Sarathi Bose - 2003 - 324 pages
...talking about the Strategic Defense Initiative (or "Star Wars" program), for example, he remarked, "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, but we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles... | |
| Alexander DeVolpi, Vladimir E. Minkov, Vadim A. Simonenko, George S. Stanford - 2004 - 397 pages
...the thought of mutual assured destruction, stated that if a breakthrough in defense were to occur, "free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instantU.S. retaliation." 186 1n looking back at the 1980s, Mendelsohn recalled that the motivation... | |
| David Rothkopf - 2009 - 304 pages
...on national television and laid out the case for the development of a 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... | |
| Richard Reeves - 2005 - 592 pages
...Staff, I believe there is a way. Let me share with you a vision of the future which offers hope. . . . 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... | |
| Elizabeth Sirimarco - 2005 - 164 pages
...abilities and our ingenuity to achieving a truly lasting stability? I think we are. Indeed, we must. . . . 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... | |
| Paul Kengor, Peter Schweizer - 2005 - 252 pages
...Reagan looked for an alternative. He placed his alternative before the American people in March 1983: "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... | |
| David Rothkopf - 2005 - 588 pages
...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...strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies? I know this is a formidable, technical task, one that may not be accomplished... | |
| Ann Byers - 2004 - 68 pages
...in order to preserve freedom and peace . . . 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? . . . We seek neither military superiority nor political advantage.... | |
| D. E. Abelson - 2006 - 390 pages
...to imagine living in a world where the ominous threat posed by nuclear weapons would be eliminated: "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... | |
| Gary Donaldson - 2007 - 368 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... | |
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