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Item Title
Is There a Defense beyond the ABM?
Collection TitleFiring Line broadcast records
Guest
Graham, William R.
Guest
Graham, Daniel O.
Host
Buckley, William F., Jr.
(1925-2008)
Date CreatedJuly 26, 1982
Description
The two Grahams (no relation) unravel for us the complexities of what President
Reagan would, the following spring, adopt as his Strategic Defense Initiative (quickly dubbed "Star Wars" by its opponents). Here is Dr. Graham on the making of our first Minuteman system back in the Fifties, in reply to those who say a space-based defense is a chimera: "We didn't know how to make solid propellant rockets of intercontinental size. We didn't know if you could launch these things from holes in the ground, which is a very tough technical problem. In four years we had the force operational."
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Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 60 minutes
FormatText
Medium
television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S0518
Record Number80040.764
NotesVideo not currently available for purchase.
Collection Guidehttps://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc88c
RightsCopyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.
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