While most students were still celebrating the basketball victory or rooting for Gladiator Sunday night, a small audience was in the Modern Languages building listening to Lt. Col. Robert M. Bowman, Ph.D., speak about the Star Wars program. Learning this after the war, the United States began researching and developing interceptors that could destroy attacking ballistic missiles. The result was the formation of the Star Wars program. After Reagan twisted Star Wars into a program that produced new offensive weapons disguised as defense mechanisms, the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff asked Bowman to speak out. The CIA has come out and reported that out of all the threats that face the United States, they worry the least about ballistic missiles.
International terrorism is the greatest threat to the United States.
No, he is just going to float his nuke up the Potomac River or deliver it in a Ryder truck. Yet, there is nothing in our Pentagon's arsenal that protects our country from a terrorist attack. The USS Cole. The World Trade Towers. In designing a program that would give the U.S. the greatest protection, we first have to consider whom our enemy is.