and at reykjavik when he met with gorbachev in this extraordinary summit meeting, he violated all of the pieties of the neo conservatism by offering total nuclear disarmament. i'm sure there's some of you here old enough to remember that. to the horror of the handlers reagan went off in a room by himself with a group of interpreters and came out with a big smile they made a deal they were going to have total nuclear disarmament. very quickly all of riggins's people quickly tried to do this and they did successfully on do it because riggins's condition was that he would have to be able to continue to develop the star wars nuclear missile defense system and gorbachev and his generals concluded because they were not thinking big enough this was an american attempt to get a first strike capability. obviously star wars was a fantasy as something to defend against an all-out nuclear attack. it wouldn't work even with a tack of half a dozen missiles as a defense. but it might be useful as a backup for a first strike against the soviet union. if you have a bad missile defense system and you