For those of us who have reached a certain age, it is hard to believe it has been three and a half decades since President Ronald Reagan introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative, which quickly ...

Seen as technologically unachievable, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) becomes known as “Star Wars.” A 1984 concept drawing of a ground and space-based laser weapon US Air Force ...

For an estimated $200,000-300,000, this screen-worn Stormtrooper helmet—recently exhibited at the Reagan Presidential Library—could be yours. And so could questions about representation of Empire!

From 1985: The status of Reagan's 'Star Wars' program. The nation's top scientists gathered in 1985 to consider President Reagan's SDI proposal: How a space-based defense system could protect the ...

Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative was called "Star Wars." — -- The United States conducted a historic successful test of one of its missile defense systems yesterday. According to the U.S ...

From 1985: The status of Reagan's 'Star Wars' program. The nation's top scientists gathered in 1985 to consider President Reagan's SDI proposal: How a space-based defense system could protect the ...

The U.S. faces dangerous adversaries but has the tools to create a strong missile-defense system.

That last part may remind you of President Ronald Reagan’s 1980s-era Strategic Defense Initiative. It seems the movies aren't the only way we're returning to Star Wars. What Can and Cannot Be ...

Less than a year later, as the world continued to criticize Reagan for his "Star Wars" concept, ... "If Americans oversold [the Strategic Defense Initiative], we Russians overbought it." ...

Trump is correct that missile defense technology has greatly advanced in the three decades since Reagan’s Star Wars concept was jettisoned. “We can hit a bullet with a bullet,” says Tom ...

"Mulroney knew the announcement he was about to make would almost certainly take the steam out of the national debate on Canada's role in 'Star Wars,'" CBC reporter David Halton said on Sept. 7, 1985.

President Trump’s ambitious Golden Dome missile defense program revives Reagan’s space-age Star Wars vision, but with new tech, bigger costs, and the same controversy.