Star Wars A Product of Reagan's Cold War Strategy

Let me share with you a vision of the future which offers hope. It is that we embark on a program to counter the awesome Soviet missile threat ... An audio podcast featuring Ronald Reagan speeches and radio addresses from the 1960s through the 1990s. A new Words to Live By Podcast will ... 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 ... Ronald Reagan's new Strategic Defense Initiative, dubbed "Star Wars," sparked fear among some Soviet leaders--of a preemptive nuclear strike ... 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 ... The House also cut funding for Star Wars by over $2 billion to $3.1 billion. The Senate figure is $3.9 billion. Mr Sam Nunn, the ranking ... What happened next thrilled the then President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, and frightened the Kremlin in Moscow. It helped to alter the ... President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, or "star wars") has been a con- spicuous incentive to arms control. Following lunch, all guests will self-guide our Defending America and the Galaxy: Star Wars and SDI exhibit and have the opportunity to tour the Ronald Reagan ... See the Defending America and the Galaxy: Star Wars and SDI Exhibit at the Ronald Reagan Library. Subscribe to FOX 11 on YouTube: ...