THE RISE OF POLITICAL CONSERVATISM 1980 1992
PRESIDENT RONALD REAGANS FOREIGN POLICY
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Detente
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Star wars
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Peach through strength
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increasing unfunded mandates from Washington, D.C.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), byname Star Wars, proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks-as originally conceived, from the Soviet Union. The SDI was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan in a nationwide television address on March 23, 1983.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -We will never be an aggressor. We maintain our strength in order to deter and defend against aggression–to preserve freedom and peace. Since the dawn of the atomic age, we’ve sought to reduce the risk of war by maintaining a strong deterrent and by seeking genuine arms control.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.