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Ronald Reagan and Star Wars

On March 23, 1983 (28 years ago today) President Ronald Reagan announced the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). SDI was a system designed to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of mutual assured destruction (or MAD as it was known as). The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization was set up in 1984 within the United States Department of Defense to oversee the Strategic Defense Initiative.



The ambitious initiative was widely criticized as being unrealisticand became known as Star Wars by its critics. In 1987, the American Physical Society concluded that a global shield such as "Star Wars" was not only impossible with existing technology, but that ten more years of research was needed to learn whether it might ever be feasible.

Following is a YouTube video containing some of President Reagan's speech of March 23, 1983:

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