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Media Matters
Hertsgaard, Mark | June 24, 1996 issue

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This article presents the author's views on the issue of Star Wars and its impact on the modern world. During the administration of the U.S. President William J. Clinton, Star Wars was renamed missile defense and its ambitions scaled back dramatically. It will now neutralize not a massive Soviet strike but a limited attack by lesser nuclear powers like China and Iraq. Most surprising of all, missile defense now boasts a technology that works. In a May 22, 1996 speech at the Coast Guard Academy, U.S. Clinton wants to spend U.S. $13.5 billion on research and development and decide in 1999 whether to deploy a missile defense.

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BALLISTIC missile defenses -- United States; PRESIDENTS -- United States; CLINTON, Bill, 1946-; NUCLEAR weapons; STRATEGIC Defense Initiative; UNITED States
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