In 1983, President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) proposed a comprehensive missile defense shield to make nuclear weapons obsolete. Reagan’s vision highlighted the dangers of ...

Officially dubbed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), the program started back in 1984 with the stated goal of rendering nuclear ballistic missiles useless, thus ending the mutual assured ...

"This was an imperative of the nuclear age." Reagan's commitment to SDI made it more difficult for Gorbachev to persuade his officials that arms control was in the Soviet interest. Conservatives ...