Ronald Reagan and the Star Wars Defense System A Legacy of Innovation

... Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). The program's objective was to establish a layered missile defense system ... Shultz suggested that this feeling of helplessness, coupled with Teller's defensive ideas combined to motivate SDI. : 261–62. In the fall of 1979, at Reagan's ... UnitedStates President Ronald Reagan announced his intentions to develop a new system, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), to reduce the threat of ... Explore the enduring legacy of President Ronald Reagan's visionary address introducing the Strategic Defense Initiative, a defining moment ... March 23rd marked the 30th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's infamous “Star Wars” speech, which launched the United States on a new round of the long effort to ... The cartoon shows Ronald Reagan wearing a "USA" shirt and riding a ski lift with missiles on his feet instead of skis. In 1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which was nicknamed by some as “Star Wars. In January 1982, Dr. Edward Teller, a physicist who played a central role in developing the hydrogen bomb, met with President Reagan to discuss new ways of ... See the Defending America and the Galaxy: Star Wars and SDI Exhibit at the Ronald Reagan Library. Subscribe to FOX 11 on YouTube: ... Ronald Reagan site logo Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum. Open ... The SDI research program will provide to a future President and a future ...