Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) "Star wars"
- The strategic defense initiative (SDI) - also known as "Star Wars" ; wanted to have defensive umbrella over the US to shoot down incoming missiles from space
- soviets could not afford to keep up with this kind of science
- the arms race would not fizzle out until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the USSR in 1985
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.
I submitted to the Congress a defense budget which reflects my best judgment, and the best understanding of the experts and specialists who advise me, about what we and our allies must do to protect our people in the years ahead.
- Ronald Regan
- Ronald Regan