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The first thing to know about the SDI programme is that it did not spring full blown from the head of Minerva in response to the President’s speech in March 1983. Virtually every element of the SDI programme was in existence in some form or another before the President made his speech, and in fact before the President arrived in office.
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Flax, A. (1987). What is SDI?. In: Holdren, J., Rotblat, J. (eds) Strategic Defences and the Future of the Arms Race. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18675-4_4
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