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The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), derisively nicknamed the Star Wars program, was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic nuclear missiles. The program was announced in 1983, by President Ronald Reagan. [1]
The Zenith Star program was a key component of President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), popularly known as "Star Wars," which aimed to create a space-based ballistic missile defense system.
Robert Carl "Bud" McFarlane (July 12, 1937 – May 12, 2022) was an American Marine Corps officer who served as National Security Advisor to President Ronald Reagan from 1983 to 1985. Within the Reagan administration , McFarlane was a leading architect of the Strategic Defense Initiative , a project intended to defend the US from Soviet ...
President Trump has proposed a next-gen missile shield, reviving Reagan's SDI vision. The plan, "Iron Dome for America," appears to emphasize countering high-end threats. Industry partners like ...
Reagan's security advisor Robert McFarlane said that the United States was having "real trouble establishing a dialogue" with the Soviets, and announced that the U.S. would be conducting its test of the missile defense system known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
In fact, Reagan’s Star Wars program, much like Trump’s "Iron Dome" proposal, was intended to protect the U.S. from aerial threats. At the time, Reagan’s program aimed to render nuclear ...
Modern conceptions of DEWs find much of their origin—at least in the public mind—in Ronald Reagan’s 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), best known as “Star Wars.” The SDI program ...
On 23 March 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced a new national missile defense program formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative but soon nicknamed "Star Wars" by detractors. President Reagan's stated goal was not just to protect the U.S. and its allies, but to also provide the completed system to the USSR, thus ending the threat of ...