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Research Project: Strategic Defense Initiative

"What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security didn't depend upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter an enemy attack?"
Ronald Reagan; 1983

In his speech of March 23, 1983, President Reagan presented his vision of a future where a Nation's security did not rest upon the threat of nuclear retaliation, but on the ability to protect and defend against such attacks. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) research program was designed to tell whether, and how, advanced defense technologies could contribute to the feasibility of this vision.

The application of nuclear power systems to the strategic defense was predicted on assumptions and increasingly were subject to question:

It was originally assumed that the SDI program was a virtually perfect defense against a large intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, attacks, which required very competent weapons. An ICBM has...

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Title: Strategic Defense Iniative
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   Strategic Defense Iniative. Research Project: Strategic Defense Initiative
   "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge ...