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	Strategic Defense Initiative Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), U.S. government program responsible for research and development of a space-based system to defend the nation from attack by strategic ballistic missiles (see guided missile ). The program is now administered by the Missile Defense Agency (originally the... Read more
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	cruise missile cruise missile low-flying, continuously powered offensive missile designed to evade defense systems. Although the German V-1 (1944) was a simple cruise missile, the cruise missile did not realize its potential until the 1970s, when the United States sought to develop a relatively inexpensive method... Read more
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	Intercontinental ballistic missiles ICBM Need ICBM stands for intercontinental ballistic missile—a long-range missile that takes advantage of the scientific laws of flight trajectory. The concept was born in the cold war, when new atomic bombs, or warheads, were developed in an attempt to maintain ... Read more
	Missile Gap MISSILE GAP MISSILE GAP, the presumed strategic disparity between the Soviet Union and the United States believed to have been created by the USSR's technological achievements in the late 1950s. Beginning in late 1957, media observers claimed that the Soviet Union's successful test of an... Read more
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	guided missile guided missile self-propelled, unmanned space or air vehicle carrying an explosive warhead. Its path can be adjusted during flight, either by automatic self-contained controls or remote human control. Guided missiles are powered either by rocket engines or by jet propulsion . The American, R. H.... Read more
	Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty ANTI-BALLISTIC-MISSILE TREATY OF 1972 The Anti-Ballistic-Missile Treaty of 1972 (ABM Treaty) limited the number of defensive antiballistic missile (ABM) systems that the United States and the former Soviet Union could use in preparation for nuclear war (23 UST 3435: TIAS 7503; 944 UNTS 13, U.S.... Read more

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	Tickets.com Outshines Competition with Customer Service By Becoming First... M2 Presswire ...com's customers, it is imperative that the IT Services Desk is...Support Desk, it became an SDI Gold member. As a member...com was able to benefit from SDI's expertise in implementing...comments: "Working with SDI has revolutionised our best...
	Quayle says HASC misguided in cutting SDI. (Dan Quayle; House Armed Services... Newspaper article from: Defense Daily ...urge the Congress to restore SDI's budget to the level of the President's request. Cuts in SDI of this magnitude are extremely...strategically necessary and morally imperative. And we intend to work hard...agreement should be held hostage to SDI." Also, he ...
	Sequent extends high-end data warehouse offering; Demonstrates enterprise... Business Wire ...users with innovations, such as SDI, and through its expertise...later this year. Sequent's SDI has been designed for the demanding...MPP solutions. "Sequent's SDI solution will enable sophisticated...become a strategic business imperative for many ...
	Revelation of Soviet space laser weapons requires Bush to demand increased... PR Newswire ...BUSH TO DEMAND INCREASED SDI BUDGET, SUPPORTERS SAY WASHINGTON...weapons in space makes it imperative that President Bush veto...Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) anti-missile defense program, according to pro-SDI leaders in Washington. According...
	Revelation of Soviet space laser weapons requires Bush to demand increased... PR Newswire ...BUSH TO DEMAND INCREASED SDI BUDGET, SUPPORTERS SAY WASHINGTON...weapons in space makes it imperative that President Bush veto...Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) anti-missile defense program, according to pro-SDI leaders. According to a...
	Summit Declared `Success'; Leaders Sidestep SDI Issue;Two Nations Find New... Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Propelled by the imperatives of political self-interest and the burden...Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) on which the Iceland summit foundered...reduced to writing a vague formulation on SDI that postpones the day of reckoning and...
	REAGAN SAYS SOVIET BID TO TRIM SDI MAY BLOCK A LONG-RANGE MISSILE PACT Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) ...try to hold it hostage to restrictions on SDI," he said. "When I met with General...pressure he could to try to get us to give up SDI," Reagan told his audience. He added...weapons is a moral as well as strategic imperative, and we will never give it up." On the...
	`Clash of titans' on SDI Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ...of Defense Caspar Weinberger, who is strongly committed to SDI deployment as soon as testing warrants; Adm. William Crowe...he is up for re-election in 1988. Boschwitz said it was imperative that House Republican Whip Trent Lott be talked into running...
	Chemical laser test tied to SDI speedup Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ...Defense Initiative at the private Arms Control Association, said the administration reversal apparently reflects "a political imperative to get some kind of beam weapon up there." Bunn said Reagan was rushing to put a "whiz-bang experiment" in space so...
	First Things First in Science Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...third, completely separate category is projects driven essentially by political rather than purely scientific imperatives-among them SDI, "image" science such as manned space flight and space station research, and regional economic development...