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Typescript transcript of interview with Greg Kanivan, Scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA, working on the US Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), [1988], relating to US development of laser technology, 1981-[1988]; the speech made by US President Reagan announcing the launch of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), Washington DC, USA, 23 Mar 1983; speculation on Soviet technological developments in strategic defence systems, [1988]; US investment in SDI, 1983-[1988]; the reformist policies of Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR, 1985-1991, and President of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, 1988-1991; the morality of the US SDI programme, [1988].
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