Star Wars And Strategic Defence Initiative
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- The Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) - Also known as “Star Wars”; wanted to have a defensive umbrella over the U.S. to shoot down incoming missiles from space
- Soviets could not afford to keep up with this kind of science
- The arms race would not fizzle out until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the USSR in 1985
Summary
The Strategic Defence initiative, (SDI) also known as Star wars, was a crazy idea by Ronald Reagan, that had a crazy umbrella design to defend the US with lasers. it was going to shoot down incoming missiles from space. The soviets could not keep up with the Americans here, but the Arms race would not fizzle out until 1985 when Mikhail Gorbachev came into power.
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Subjunctive Question
What would the world be like if this Star wars thing had actually worked?
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I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering those nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."
- Ronald Reagan
- Ronald Reagan