USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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 strategic nuclear weapons (intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles).

Detailed explanation-2: -The SDI was intended to defend the United States from attack from Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) by intercepting the missiles at various phases of their flight. For the interception, the SDI would require extremely advanced technological systems, yet to be researched and developed.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1983, President Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) re-search program, designed to determine if advanced technologies for defense against ballistic missiles could be used to strengthen deterrence.

Detailed explanation-4: -In a televised address to the nation, delivered on March 23, 1983, President Reagan announced his vision of a world safe from nuclear threat. His Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), later dubbed “Star Wars” by the press, is an idea that remains controversial to this day.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.