It’s reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), ridiculed in its time by pundits with the “Star Wars” tag, but in retrospect viewed more positively. However limited ...

A U.S. high-tech anti-ballistic missile defense system proposed during the Reagan administration in the 1980s. Also called "Star Wars." THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

The Missile Defense Agency brought its workforce together Jan. 7 to mark its 23rd birthday. The official date is Jan. 2, but ...

pushed for what he termed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), popularly dubbed "Star Wars." Reagan intended for the SDI, partly based in space, to intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles ...

Even Tom Wicker, a New York Times columnist with impeccable liberal credentials, reluctantly conceded that the Strategic Defense Initiative ... Yakovlev insists that "Star Wars was exploited ...

In 1983, President Reagan in a televised speech proposed what he called the Strategic ... of the defense establishment mocked ...