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Resolution Number: 1985-D024
Title: Oppose the Strategic Defense Initiative Known As "Star Wars"
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred As Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, That this 68th General Convention:

  1. Express its opposition to President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative known popularly as "Star Wars"; and
  2. Request members of Congress to withhold funds for study of the feasibility of this proposed "umbrella" that some contend could be built to remove the threat of nuclear war; and
  3. Direct the Secretary of this Convention to communicate this Resolution to the President of the United States, to the members of Congress, and to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and to the National Academy of Sciences.
Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Anaheim, 1985 (New York: General Convention, 1986), p. 177.