Ronald Reagan's Star Wars A Legacy of Controversy and Influence

Reagan's plan—officially, the “Strategic Defense Initiative”—was instantly dubbed the “Star Wars” program. Soviet President Yuri Andropov called it “insane.” ... In a televised address to the nation delivered on March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced his vision of a world safe from nuclear weapons via a ... Ronald Reagan gave us Star Wars, a mythical promise to put a shield over the United States. During the campaign, Bill Clinton went out of his way to endorse ... 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 ... President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, or "star wars") has been a con- spicuous incentive to arms control. The cartoon shows Ronald Reagan wearing a "USA" shirt and riding a ski lift with missiles on his feet instead of skis. Ronald Reagan's determination to destroy communism and the ... Even though Reagan's “Star Wars” never led to the deployment of an ... An examination of the presidency of Ronald Reagan explores, among other things, his Star Wars program, showing how Reagan used his acting skills and public ... U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev ... He said the "Star Wars" epithet backfired because the Star Wars ... ... Ronald Reagan in 1983, they said. But the deceptive information ... Reagan proposed that "Star Wars," would protect the United States ...