RONALD REAGAN: "STAR WARS"



In a speech from the Oval Office on this day in 1983, President Ronald Reagan called for defending the United States against a first-strake attack by developing a Strategic Defense Initiative system. 
It gained the nickname “Star Wars”, after the futuristic Hollywood movie. Reagan’s goal was to mount a near-total defense against a massive sophisticated intercontinental ballistic missile attack. Star Wars called for the building a network of ground-based and space-based systems to shield the country; the space-based portion would have used lasers armed with nuclear warheads to shoot down incoming Soviet missiles.

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