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TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1969
Should We Construct an ABM System?
Dr. Roland Herbst
Associate Director. U.C. Radiation Laboratory,
Senator Charles H. Percy
Republican of Illinois
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1970
The Safeguard Antiballistic Missile Project
Lt. Gen. G.V. Underwood, Jr.,
Commanding General, U.S. Army Air Defense Command
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FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1984
Space Defense: "Star Wars" or Sanity?

Lt. General Daniel O. Graham
(U.S. Army, Ret.) Former Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1986
An Insured Missile Defense
Dr. Martin Anderson
Author; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Member, Committee on the Present Danger; Member, President Reagan's Economic Policy Advisory Board

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FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1986
SDI: Prospects and Challenges
Dr. Gerold Yonas
Chief Scientist and Acting Deputy Director, Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, U.S. Department of Defense

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FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1986
SDI and the Gorbachev Proposal
Dr. Robert Jastrow
Author, How to Make Nuclear Weapons Obsolete

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FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1986
Space Defense—The Impossible Dream?
Dr. Richard L. Garwin
IBM Fellow, Thomas J. Watson Research Center; Adjunct Professor of Physics, Columbia University

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1986
Where are the Russians on SDI?
Dr. Edward Teller
Physicist; Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER l6, 1988
Strategic Defense: Let's Deploy It Now
The Honorable
Caspar S. Weinberger
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1991
Smart Weapons, SDI, and Security
General James Abrahamson
USAF (Ret); Former Director, Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), Office of the Secretary of Defense; Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, Hughes Aircraft
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THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1999
Reagan Reconsidered
Frances FitzGerald, Author, Way Out There in the Blue
Lou Cannon Author, President Reagan: Role of a Lifetime
Dan Bornstein, Political Editor, Contra Costa Times; Moderator

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2000
What's Next for Missile Defense?
James Woolsey, Attorney, Shea & Gardner; Former Director, CIA
Lawrence Korb, Vice President and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Director of Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Sidney Drell, Professor and Deputy Director, Emeritus, Stanford Linear Accelerator
Dr. Gloria Duffy, CEO, The Commonwealth Club; Moderator
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