Unveiling the Star Wars Defense Initiative

History has witnessed the success of Star Wars again, an idea to kill enemy missiles before they can strike. President Ronald Reagan ... The rampant real-world space-based warmongering of Ronald Reagan's own 'Star Wars' Strategic Defense Initiative program in 1983. America is in the midst of a full-fledged, bipartisan bout of nostalgia for the glory days of Ronald Reagan. The signs are every-. 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 ... The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a plan created by US President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 [1] to use ground and space-based systems to protect ... 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 ... 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- ... ... Ronald Reagan administration's ambitious Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), famously dubbed "Star Wars." Ostensibly presented as a ... U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev ... He said the "Star Wars" epithet backfired because the Star Wars ... In a keynote speech on March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced “a program to counter the awesome Soviet missile threat with measures ...