Reagan's Star Wars The Nuclear Deterrence Debate

What happened next thrilled the then President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, and frightened the Kremlin in Moscow. It helped to alter the ... The United States "Star Wars" Program proposed by President Reagan in 1983. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a proposal by U.S. President Ronald ... The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, or Star Wars) was a proposed U.S. ... The SDI was first proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in a nationwide television ... The Strategic Defense Initiative, a.k.a. SDI, was President Ronald Reagan's 1983 proposed Star Wars program that "called for a land- or space- ... 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 ... 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 ... Many of today's Clinton-fatigued conservatives no longer remember that the first president to make this very offer was none other than Ronald Reagan. The rampant real-world space-based warmongering of Ronald Reagan's own 'Star Wars' Strategic Defense Initiative program in 1983. Third, to persuade America's Cold War adversary to eliminate its superpower nuclear arsenal as well, Reagan proposed to share this SDI technology with Moscow. The cartoon shows Ronald Reagan wearing a "USA" shirt and riding a ski lift with missiles on his feet instead of skis.