5/24/10

[5Ian]

fall of communism, Gorbachev as leader in 1985 and wanted to change the government to more democratic, but couldn't change the economy without changing political and social structure of the communist nation, did reforms in Russia changing the government and pushing out communism, in 1987 his economic reforms allowed the people to own business's, law cooperative, allowed private ownership, repeal of article six of USSR constitution, which had given communist party supremacy over all institutions. KGB and CPSU and other such organizations were disbanded. many countries came out from the fall of communism,

SDI was an organization established by Regen that used ground and spaced based stations to protect us from missiles, more focused on defensive strategy and the mutual assured destruction motto, SDIO was set up in 1984 by the defense department which overlooks the SDI, X ray lasers were an early focused, uses energy from warhead to shoot down many missiles in a short time. chemical lasers known as MIRACL operating on a band of 3.6 to 4.2, more successful project of SDI's endeavors, Rail Gun used conductive pellet and shot down by electric current, projectile could shoot out the rail at 24 miles an hour, brilliant pebbles used mini-missiles powered by high velocity rockets, Regan's star war speech announced in 83, criticized it for encouraging on developing warfare in space, Russia wasn't happy about our missile defensive. started a new space race. present day defense, GMD, ground based mid course defense, of 06, system is operational with limited capacity, desinged to intercept small numbers of ICBM's.