Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a plan created by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983[1] to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative focused on defense instead on the offensive mutual assured destruction (MAD). It was nicknamed "Star Wars" by the public and by critics, a reference to the Star Wars space opera movie series, because they regarded the program as science fiction, extremely expensive, and for creating tensions with the Soviet Union and for increasing the arm race.
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[change | change source]- ↑ Federation of American Scientists. Missile Defense Milestones Archived 2008-12-22 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed March 10, 2006.
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