Reagan's Bold Gamble The Star Wars Defense System

1983: President Reagan announces his "Star Wars" missile-defense program. Image may contain Ronald Reagan Tie Accessories Accessory Human Person ... Washington (AFP) – Forty years after US president Ronald Reagan stunned the nation and world with his "Star Wars" plan to take nuclear ... Ronald Reagan pledged in its platform to proceed with “vigorous research and development of an effective anti-ballistic missile system. Politics. Ronald Reagan, Strategic Defense Initiative, SDI. Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a multibillion-dollar exercise in ... President Ronald Reagan surprised friend and foe alike with what came to be known as the “Star Wars speech” on March 23, 1983. It was a ... President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, or "star wars") has been a con- spicuous incentive to arms control. Ronald Reagan's determination to destroy communism and the ... Even though Reagan's “Star Wars” never led to the deployment of an ... 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 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan made his famous Star Wars speech, announcing his plan to develop a missile defense system that ... President Ronald Reagan's unexpected call for US scientists to use their talents to develop a capability that would make nuclear weapons “impotent and obsolete ...