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Ronald Reagan: “It's time to turn the great technological might of our nation not to inventing ever more deadly weapons of destruction…”

On the recordMarch 13, 1988
It's time to turn the great technological might of our nation not to inventing ever more deadly weapons of destruction but instead to creating new instruments of peace—defensive technologies that harm no one.
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Remarks to the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis at a Conference on the Strategic Defense Initiative

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