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Also known as Star Wars, was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union.
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This program was to be an “anti-missile shield” used to protect the U.S. from a possible nuclear attack and was a technological system that the Soviets couldn’t match.
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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: -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-3: -The Strategic Defense Initiative was an anti-ballistic missile program that began under American president Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. The goal of the program was to establish a shield in space that would intercept any incoming missiles.
Detailed explanation-4: -On March 23, 1983 in a televised address to the nation, U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced his intention to embark upon groundbreaking research into a national defense system that could make nuclear weapons obsolete.