Strategic Defence Initiative, SDI Quotes

Star Wars represents a fundamental assault on the concepts, alliances and arms-control agreements that have buttressed American security for several decades, and the president’s continued adherence to it constitutes one of the most reckless and irresponsible acts in the history of modern statecraft.

The notion that our only strategic choice is MAD (mutually assured destruction)—which means nothing less than an unstable pact to commit instant and total mutual suicide in the event of war—is irrational, immoral and unnecessary.

It is absolutely right that President Reagan considers SDI and thank goodness people considered nuclear research before the last war.

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

If an SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) system were to keep out ninety percent of incoming nuclear missiles, it would be a ninety percent success and most Americans would be dead.

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.

It is well for the man in the street to realize that there is no power on earth that can protect him from being bombed. Whatever people tell him, the bomber will always get through.

We have a moral obligation to straighten out the world before we mess up space.

National missile defense has become a question of theology, not policy.

Reagan's defense buildup and SDI, so ridiculed at the time, pressed Gorbachev, while his economy was collapsing, to make arms deals and improve relations with the West, which contributed to the unraveling of his empire.