How it was №1 15.05.2001 (2001)

On June 18, 1982, the Soviet Air Defense conducted large-scale nuclear force exercises in space.

Two silo-based SS11-class ballistic missiles, mobile SS20 medium-range missiles, and a Delta-class submarine-launched ballistic missile were launched.

Two anti-missiles were fired at their warheads.

At the same time, the Cosmos-1379 satellite intercepted a target simulating the US Transit satellite.

Video chronicle: Address plan of the CIA headquarters in Washington.

Door with electronic digital code.

Center for testing and control of space units of the USSR. Command console.

Launch of a ballistic missile.

Graphics: a military satellite intercepts a missile.

Host Oleg Shklovsky in the studio recounts the events of 1982, narrating the speech of US President Ronald Reagan.

Video chronicle: Reagan delivers a televised address on March 23, 1983. Proclaims the doctrine of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) of the USA. Multimedia graphics from the times of the arms race (star wars).

The guest of the program Oleg Grinevsky recreates the events of the past, talks about the reaction of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Yuri Andropov to Reagan's speech.

Explains why at subsequent negotiations the American side came up with a proposal to ban missile defense systems.

Video chronicle: Reagan's speech on August 11, 1984, in which he outlaws the Soviet Union: "A nuclear strike on Soviet strategic facilities will begin in five minutes." As it turned out later, this was a joke.

Georgy Kornienko talks about his participation in a meeting of the General Staff of the USSR, during which a decision was made to adopt a set of measures to neutralize possible threats from the United States, to create their own defense systems.

Oleg Grinevsky talks about the technical specifications for the deployment of missile defense systems and the specifics of using the complex.

The US reaction to retaliatory actions in the Soviet Union and the probable threat of a nuclear war between the two countries are discussed.

Video chronicle: multimedia graphics - the American missile defense system destroys Soviet missiles allegedly launched towards the USA. Nikolai Detinov talks about the negotiations taking place between the USSR and the USA; about the development by Soviet scientists of a new zonal missile defense system "

Terra-3"

based on a powerful laser, its successor, the laser locator LE-4. Describes the response programs to the SDI undertaken in the USA. Interview with Oleg Baklanov, who talks about testing laser installations in the USSR. Video chronicle: the Energia launch vehicle in a workshop hangar, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome site, the launch of the rocket into space.

Nikolai Detinov also talks about other experimental programs carried out in the Soviet Union as part of the missile defense system, one of them is the use of microwave (ultra-high frequency) radiation to detect and neutralize enemy ballistic missiles.

According to Detinov, the SDI program was terminated in the United States, since the Americans were convinced of the impossibility of its implementation, but successful developments continue to be used in other projects.

For example, the "Shining Eyes" and "Shining Stones" programs.

An interview with Robert McFarlane, one of the founders of the SDI doctrine, who talks about the origin of the SDI idea, emphasizes that he never believed in the real implementation of the program.

According to him, the main strategic goal "was to provoke Russia into an arms race, to new gigantic expenditures and to bring the Soviet economy to collapse."