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  2. Strategic Defense Initiative - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Zenith Star - Wikipedia

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    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. Initiated in the mid-1980s, Zenith Star represented an ambitious attempt to develop and deploy a chemical laser weapon in space.

  4. From 'Star Wars' to 'Iron Dome for America' - AOL

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    The project will pick up where former President Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" project left off. He's calling the new effort "Iron Dome for America," drawing on a name for an Israeli system that ...

  5. Foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration - Wikipedia

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    President Reagan's Covert Action program has been given credit for assisting in ending the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. [11] [12] When the Polish government suppressed the Solidarity movement in late 1981, Reagan imposed economic sanctions on the People's Republic of Poland.

  6. 5 things to know about President Donald Trump's 'Iron Dome ...

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    President Ronald Reagan was the first U.S. president to call for a national defense system that would counter the ... "Star Wars," and questioned why his administration would pursue a costly ...

  7. The top 20 presidents in US history, according to historians

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    Notable best presidents include George Washington at No.2, Thomas Jefferson at No. 7, and Barack Obama at No. 12.

  8. Political positions of Ronald Reagan - Wikipedia

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    Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. ... (SDI), labeled "Star Wars" by the media, after the 1977 film of the same name.

  9. How has history's ranking of presidents changed over time? - AOL

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    Interestingly enough, in 2010, when Republicans delivered that "shellacking" to President Obama and took over the House of Representatives in a midterm tea party wave, Reagan scored at 18th among ...