ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the relationship among Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), arms control, and stability. It shows that SDI research and arms control policies, snd provides a cohesive and firm basis for enhancing strategic stability in the future and ultimately for reducing the risk of war. The primary security objective of the United States is to reduce the risk of war while preserving people liberty and democratic political system. The president's analysis characterizes survivability as "essential not only to maintain the effectiveness of a defense system, but to maintain stability." President Reagan personally assured General Secretary Gorbachev at the November 1985 summit that the United States seeks to enhance peace and that we are pursuing SDI as part of people effort to enhance deterrence and global stability. United States SDI research activities and arms control policies are designed to provide a basis for securing stability in a future strategic regime.
