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‘If [the U.S.] continues with the SDI program, it will pose challenges of unprecedented scope to the Soviet leadership. If the program is abandoned, the inherent opportunity to confront the Soviet leadership with difficult choices will be lost—perhaps irrevocably.” This is the thesis of The Soviet Perspective on the Strategic Defense Initiative (Pergamon Press, Fairview Park, Elmsford, N.Y. 10523; $9.95, softcover), by Dmitry Mikheyev, who received his PhD in laser technology in 1970 from Moscow State University and shortly afterward attempted to flee the USSR. Arrested by the KGB, he was charged with treason against the Soviet state, for which he served six years in a hard-labor camp before being expelled from the Soviet Union in 1979. He ended up in the United States, of which he became a citizen in 1985.

“U.S. policymakers and observers,” Mikheyev argues,

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‘If [the U.S.] continues with the SDI program, it will pose challenges of unprecedented scope to the Soviet leadership. If the program is abandoned, the inherent opportunity to confront the Soviet leadership with difficult choices will be lost—perhaps irrevocably.” This is the thesis of The Soviet Perspective on the Strategic Defense Initiative (Pergamon Press, Fairview Park, Elmsford, N.Y. 10523; $9.95, softcover), by Dmitry Mikheyev, who received his PhD in laser technology in 1970 from Moscow State University and shortly afterward attempted to flee the USSR. Arrested by the KGB, he was charged with treason against the Soviet state, for which he served six years in a hard-labor camp before being expelled from the Soviet Union in 1979. He ended up in the United States, of which he became a citizen in 1985.

“U.S. policymakers and observers,” Mikheyev argues,