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Bookmark or Share- Strategic Defense Initiative - WikipediaThe Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), nicknamed the Star Wars program, was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles).
- Why Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ Defense Plan Remained Science FictionPresident Ronald Reagan saw the proposed Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) as a safeguard against the most terrifying Cold War outcome—nuclear annihilation.
- Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) | Description, History, & FactsStrategic Defense Initiative (SDI), commonly known as Star Wars, proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks—as originally conceived, from the Soviet Union. It was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan in a nationwide television address on March 23, 1983.
- Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 1983 - United States Department of ...Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), 1983. On March 23, 1983 in a televised address to the nation, U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced his intention to embark upon groundbreaking research into a national defense system that could make nuclear weapons obsolete.
- The Enduring Impact of Reagan’s Strategic Defense InitiativeLess than a year after that March 1983 speech, the White House established the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), more commonly and derisively known as “Star Wars,” to conduct research into a wide variety of advanced technologies that could be used for land- and space-based missile defense.
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