Reagan and Star Wars A Chapter in Cold War History

The rampant real-world space-based warmongering of Ronald Reagan's own 'Star Wars' Strategic Defense Initiative program in 1983. 1983: President Reagan announces his "Star Wars" missile-defense program. Image may contain Ronald Reagan Tie Accessories Accessory Human Person ... In 1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which was nicknamed by some as “Star Wars. Reagan envisioned a comprehensive defense system capable of destroying the Soviet Union's fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) long before they ... The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983,[1] to use ground-based and space-based systems to ... On March 23rd, 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative, signaling a massive paradigm shift in U.S. policy on nuclear policy ... Ronald Reagan site logo Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum. Open ... The SDI research program will provide to a future President and a future ... Ronald Reagan had spent a great deal of time with his scientific and defense advisors before his 1983 defense speech in which, at the end (and to the surprise ... President Reagan announced his vision of a world safe from nuclear threat. His Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), later dubbed Star Wars by the press, is an ... {mosads}Significantly, North Korea never makes nuclear threats against China or Russia. Ronald Reagan was right that SDI — derided by the press ...