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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.
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), commonly known as Star Wars, proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks—as originally conceived, from the Soviet Union. It was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan in a nationwide television address on March 23, 1983.
Jul 18, 2018 · Wednesday, July 18, 2018. During the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan initiated the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), an anti-ballistic missile program that was designed to shoot down nuclear missiles in space. Otherwise known as “Star Wars,” SDI sought to create a space-based shield that would render nuclear missiles obsolete.
Apr 28, 2023 · The Strategic Defense Initiative in Retrospect: The Past, Present, and Future of Missile Defense. Remarks. Mallory Stewart, Assistant Secretary. Bureau of Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability. George Washington University Space Policy Institute. Washington, D.C. April 28, 2023. As prepared.
Jan 18, 2019 · President Ronald Reagan saw the proposed Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) as a safeguard against the most terrifying Cold War outcome—nuclear annihilation.
Less than a year after that March 1983 speech, the White House established the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), more commonly and derisively known as “Star Wars,” to conduct research into a wide variety of advanced technologies that could be used for land- and space-based missile defense.
This overview of the Strategic Defense Initiative research plan illustrates the four- layered defense system contemplated: attacking ballistic missiles in their boost and post-boost phases, during midcourse flight and in the terminal portion of their trajecto-
