• DocumentCode
    926404
  • Title

    SDI

  • Author

    Worden, Simon P.

  • Author_Institution
    Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Washington, DC 20301-7100
  • Volume
    2
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1987
  • fDate
    3/1/1987 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    5
  • Lastpage
    9
  • Abstract
    The President´s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) began in 1983 following his historic March 23, 1983 speech. The SDI program has enjoyed substantial progress since this beginning. As the SDI begins its fourth year, the outlines of a basic system architecture, feasible for deployment in the 1990s, begins to emerge. In addition, SDI technical progress shows great promise not only for an initial strategic defense system, but also for maintaining defense effectiveness into the first decades of the next century against countermeasures designed specifically to defeat defenses.
  • Keywords
    Atmosphere; Free electron lasers; Kinetic energy; Laser modes; Measurement by laser beam; Missiles; Weapons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0885-8985
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MAES.1987.5005346
  • Filename
    5005346
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=926404