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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. Trump signs an order to revise the Pentagon’s policy on ...

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    Defense officials said then that many troops appeared to use the vaccine mandate as a way to quickly and easily to get out of their service obligations. DEI initiatives

  4. Geneva Summit (1985) - Wikipedia

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    The main focus of the third plenary meeting held there was the Strategic Defense Initiative, with Gorbachev insisting that SDI represented a new phase of the arms buildup in space and Reagan insisting that SDI was merely "a shield" against ICBM's.

  5. Exoatmospheric Reentry-vehicle Interceptor Subsystem

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    The Exoatmospheric Reentry-vehicle Interceptor Subsystem, or ERIS, program, was a component of the United States' Strategic Defense Initiative during the Cold War. The ERIS system was named after Eris, Greek goddess of strife. [1]

  6. United States national missile defense - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Domestic policy of the Ronald Reagan administration

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    In 1983, Reagan introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a defense project. The intended goal was to make the US invulnerable to a Soviet missile attack by placing missiles in space and vaporizing those of the Soviets, upon a nuclear attack. [69]

  8. Foreign policy of the Ronald Reagan administration - Wikipedia

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    One of Reagan's proposals was the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). He believed this defense shield could make nuclear war impossible, but the unlikelihood that the technology could ever work led opponents to dub SDI "Star Wars".

  9. FACT CHECK: Did the Pentagon Allocate $86 Billion ... - AOL

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    A post on X claims that Secretary of Defense nominee and former Fox News correspondent Pete Hegseth is looking to withhold $87 billion dollars that are currently going to military Diversity ...