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about a system that promises to reduce the size of nuclear missile
forces on both sides and to
greatly enhance the prospects for real arms reductions. And yet we
hear SDI belittled by some with
nicknames, or demagogued with charges that it will bring war to the
heavens.
They complain that it won't work, which is odd from people who
profess to believe in the
perfectibility of man-machines after all. And man-machines are so
much easier to manipulate. They
say it won't be 100 percent effective, which is odd, since they don't
ask for 100 percent
effectiveness in their social experiments. They say SDI is only in the
research stage and won't be
realized in time to change things. To which, as I said last month, the
only reply is: then let's get
started.
Now, my point here is not to question the motives of others. But it's
difficult to understand how
critics can object to exploring the possibility of moving away from
exclusive reliance upon nuclear
weapons. The truth is, I believe that they find it difficult to embrace
any idea that breaks with the
past, that breaks with consensus thinking and the common
establishment wisdom. In short, they
find it difficult and frightening to alter the status quo. And what are
we to do when these so-called opinion leaders of an outworn
philosophy are out