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(Archived document, may contain errors) 45 4 Septemb er 17, 1985 MOSCOWS MANY PROBLEMS IN COUNTERING A US. STRATEGIC DEFENSE SYSTEM INTRODUCTION Whether the United States should change its strategic nuclear policy to incorporate ballistic missile defense (BMD) may be the critical strategic, diplomatic, and technological issue of the decade. Since Ronald Reagan announced, on March 23, 1983, the initiative to research the feasibility of rendering nuclear weapons obsolete, BMD supporters and opponents have been girding for battle.

General, thanks so much for beinger who. organizations and substitutions have to do their best to look to the future and plan and train accordingly. is it the right mo for special operators to be reorienting toward china? >> oh, yeah. absolutely. china represents the most serious national security threat the united states has faced. noe since the soviet union. it was during the cold war. we also had special operation forces in our services not at the number that we have now but certainly they complimented the conventional forces that's what they are going to do here. plenty of missions. reconn...

About deterrents. making certain that the iranians really get the message that based on intelligence we thought they were going to have an unprovoked attack on our forces. this is about a response if they do. and i think what we're probably looking at increased offensive missile capability to be able to conduct cruise missiles from submarines and surface ships and also likely some additional missile defense capability protect our facilities. we have facilities throughout the middle east. >> bill: is that a message, a show of force. you describe it as a deterrent. offensive or defensive. >> it'...

The midwest, keen to portray an image of business as usual. but information from cuba forces him back to the white house, blaming a cold. the press is suspicious. >> rumors that there were other reasons besides the cold that brought the president back. >> the president returned to washington because of his cold. thank you very much. >> surveillance images confirm increasing military action in cuba, and the cia believes nuclear weapons are now ready for launch. >> within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites sites is now in prepar...