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SDI was high on Mikhail Gorbachev's agenda at the Geneva Summit. SDI failed to dissuade the USSR from investing in development of ballistic missiles. [87] The Soviet response to SDI from March 1983 through November 1985 provided indications of their view of the program both as a threat and as an opportunity to weaken NATO.
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSD or SSDI) is a payroll tax-funded federal insurance program of the United States government.It is managed by the Social Security Administration and designed to provide monthly benefits to people who have a medically determinable disability (physical or mental) that restricts their ability to be employed.
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was born out of the worsening U.S.-Soviet relations of the Reagan Era. Popularly dubbed "Star Wars" at the time, SDI was a multibillion-dollar research project for a missile defense system that could shoot down incoming Soviet missiles and eliminate the need for mutually assured destruction.
The bombing is the worst domestic terrorist incident in U.S. history, and the investigation results in the arrests of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. 1995 — Retired professional football player O. J. Simpson is acquitted of two charges of first-degree murder in the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson , and Ronald Goldman .
Pete Sampras, age 19, wins the 1990 US Open, becoming the youngest person to ever win the event. September 10 – The comedy television sitcom series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air premieres on NBC . September 11 – Gulf War : President George H. W. Bush delivers a nationally televised speech in which he threatens the use of force to remove Iraqi ...
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In addition to the costs of implementing the treaty, the US also aided the former Soviet republics with the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program (Nunn-Lugar Program), which added $591 million to the costs of implementing the START I program in the former Soviet Union, which would almost double the cost of the program for the US. [9] [page needed]
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