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ar force of their ownthen nuclear
weapons were obsolete even as a threat. Western governments
denied that the Soviets could take the risk of overrunning west-
ern Europe in the hope that the USA and its allies would leave
their nuclear forces unused. The morality of deterrence was also
an issue. If the targets designated for western weapons were So-
viet missiles and bombersthis would only encourage Moscow
to unleash its forces as early as possible in a crisis. If western nu-
clear forces were actually aimed at Soviet citiesthen this threat
was both immoral and incredible. It was these argumentsto-
gether with changes in technologywhich encouraged President
Reagan and his advisers to propose the Strategic Defense Initia-
tive or Star Wars programme in the 1980s. This would have pro-
tected the United States from nuclear attack by orbiting large
numbers of satellites round the earth. These would have con-
tained beam weapons intended to burn holes in Soviet missiles
as they rose through the atmosphere. Both the practicality and
the affordability of the programme were the subject of intense
debate until the end of the Cold War in 1989. Subsequentlythe
chances of the US Congress voting the billions of dollars i [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]yilai:
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