The United States was planning to include Russia in the program "Star wars"
The American leader George Bush senior in the nineties seriously was considering the option to include Russia in the program of the Strategic defense proposal (SDI), also known As " Star wars ", in the form of a partner. ABOUT it said the print Edition of Telegraph citing declassified documents of the British government.
According to the magazine, the Bush administration-the senior was ready to share with Moscow the strategic military technology and defense systems. According to the British dossier, the head of the United States planned to discuss the matter with Boris Yeltsin after the meeting in camp David in 1992, which was officially announced about the end of the cold war.
Washington believed that Yeltsin is "a completely new approach and the desire to cooperate, which the Americans wanted to use in order to benefit from better relations," the magazine gives the words of Stephen wall, who then held the post of adviser to the Prime Minister of great Britain. In the documents of the British government expressed concerns that such cooperation can deliver " complex issues for global security ".
the magazine also indicates as a source of later documents, where it is reported ABOUT the fact that Washington "has moderated his ambitions" in terms of cooperation with Russia in the field of strategic research.
The US has announced the creation of the Strategic defense proposal in 1983. The program involves the development of a global missile defense system with elements of space allocation. The project turned into the pilot program, As it was considered outdated and unnecessarily expensive.