四月份发表的两篇报告,为战略防御倡议的进展给出了迥然不同的图像。美国物理学会研究组题为“定向能武器的科学和技术”的报告,不相信到九十年代初能达到部署计划作出决定的预定目标,认为在许多技术领域还需要有几个数量级的改进。另一方面,战略防御倡议组织给国会的年度报告则宣称,“一些对有效战略防御计划具有关键作用的技术已取得巨大进展”。批评物理学会的报告过于悲观。学会研究组的两主席之一、贝尔实验室的 C、K、N Two reports, released in April, give a very different picture of the progress of the strategic defense initiative. The report of the American Physical Society’s research group entitled “Science and Technology in Directed Weapons” does not believe in the intended goal of reaching a deployment plan by the early 1990s and considers that there are orders of magnitude in many technical fields Improve. On the other hand, the Strategic Defense Initiative’s annual report to Congress declared that “a great deal of progress has been made in some of the technologies that play a key role in effective strategic defense programs.” Critics of the Society’s report are too pessimistic. One of the two chairs of the study group, Bell Labs C, K, N.