Soviet Views of SDI

Abstract

The culprit, of course, was President Reagan's "Strategic Defense Initiative" (SDI). As the late General Secretary's response indicates, the Soviet campaign against SDI1 began punctually and without equivocation. From Andropov to the present, it has been characterized by high degrees of both intensity and consistency over time. About two years afterAndropov's exc~nge, the newly installed General Secretary, M. S. Gorbachev, voiced similar concerns in his Pravda interview...