Star Wars To Work
March, 1987
When it first made news, a lot of people laughed off the Strategic Defense Initiative (S.D.I.) as the finest example of deranged politico-military thinking since the Maginot line. Its projected costs would make it the most expensive human venture in the history of the solar system—and maybe the most reckless one, considering the amount of self-delusion required to imagine that it would (A) work and (B) not freak out the Russians, whose equanimity in such matters can be judged by their past behav...
