"Star Wars" #5 of 5 - Conclusion + Credits (2000)

'Star Wars': New Hope or Phantom Menace?
Part 5 of 5 - Conclusion and Credits

America's Defense Monitor Show #1330
WHUT-TV, Washington, DC
Original Air Date: April 2, 2000
total run time: 28 minutes

SYNOPSIS:
For 40 years, American scientists have tried - and failed - to build a system to protect the U.S. from long-range missile attack. In October 1999, the successful test of a missile interceptor breathed new life into Ronald Reagan's dream of a national shield against enemy missiles. But will building "Star Wars" make us any safer?

Featured Experts:

Tom Collina
Union of Concerned Scientists

Bruce Gagnon
Global Network Against Nuclear Power & Weapons in Space

Maj. Gen. Milnor Roberts
High Frontier

Joseph Cirincione
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

William Schneider
Rumsfeld Commission

George Tenet
Director, Central Intelligence Agency

And remarks by:
U.S. Senator Thad Cochran
U.S. Senator James Inhofe
President Ronald Reagan

Written, edited, and produced by Jon Lottman for the Center for Defense Information.

Program content © 2000, CDI, inc.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Ronald
• Reagan
• outer
• space
• weapons
• war
• laser
• missile
• defense
• military
• star
• wars
• nuclear
• ICBM
• USA
• russia
• china
• ASAT

[LanceBeckman]

Ah, the blatant all makes sense now. The end credits reveal the program was produced by the "Center for Defense Information," a left-wing advocacy organization opposed to missile defense. Funny how it's presented as a straight news program but in actuality it's nothing more than propaganda.

[jonlottman]

To be fair, CDI is credited in the intro as well. I agree this is not one of their better shows, which too bad because 1) I wrote and produced it, and 2) in spite of its flaws, it's still relevant. Cheers.

[anon0727]

I'm not a big fan of SDI, but it's interesting how biased this turns at the end, calling all threats "3rd world" to discount them, especially in the wake of historical events showing the continued pursuit of nuclear weapons by N. Korea and, presumably, Iran. Personally, I still like MAD, because any country with 5-10 nukes with shoddy delivery systems will have to face the idea of complete an utter annihilation, as long as our leadership has the guts to follow through on the theory of deterence

[cfisher113078]

It's funny how naive this scientist is, 8 years later n Korea has denotated 2 nuclear bombs, fired ICBM missiles, Iran is now close to obtaining nuclear technology, should we still not invest in SDI ?

[StiviGun1]

So 4 that guy, talking 2 N Korea 2 stop their ballistic missiles program, is much better than building weapons systems. Yeah, asking people like Kim Jong Il has always showed results... These anti-military hippie dorks never stop amazing me with their stupidity.

[paulgrs]

@anon0727 I wish you were right. We have NO leadership for many many years now

[killerbee2k]

well i liked the show, thanks for uploading it. But I disagree with presenting it as negotiations or missile defence issue when you can have both. Keep negotiating while advancing SDI tech so u can say " oh u finally used 40% of your GDP on ICBM and got it? Too bad we spent 0,001% of our GDP and got SDI and ICBM, jokes on you".

[shshb50]

its ironical how the most dangerous and agresive country on the world feels so threatened

well don't worry world is not a treat to america, its america that is a treat to the world