Ira, it was other way around. States had annonced the Star War Program. Soviets very quickly accepted there was no way to keep up with it technologically. Gorbachev had annonced that Soviet Union will use asymmetric respnce. Most famous approach proposed as the response was the use of nails in orbit. Hardly technologically advanced solution

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