Gorbačov i strategijska obrambena inicijativa (SDI)
Gorbatchov and the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

Summary/Abstract: The American project of Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) is a political, military, and technological challenge to the USSR. The economic and political processes initiated by Gorbatchov's ideology of accelerated modernization may be seriously disturbed if a new rearmament race should begin. The Soviet Union will have given a successful answer to SDI if it successfully limits the risk of a military threat and maintains the existing strategic balance, stimulates its own technological innovations, satisfies the interests of the military, and secures the means for economic growth. It may be expected that the USSR leadership wall carefully watch all the aspects of SDI development and that it will at the same time produce alternative answers in tune with the internal political and economic, situation and the course of international political relations.

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