Forty years ago on March 23, President Ronald Reagan announced to the world his plans to develop a missile defense system that would make Soviet ballistic missiles “impotent and obsolete,” yet ...

The Pentagon commemorated the 36th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative in dramatic fashion on Monday by reaching a new technological milestone. The military ...

Declaring the US was lagging the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race, President Ronald Reagan launched the wildly ambitious Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to render Soviet ballistic missiles ...

Ken Adelman, former Arms Control and Disarmament Agency director, and other former policy officials reflected on former President Ronald Reagan and the 40th anniversary of the Strategic Defense ...

Subscription Required . Opinion: To Protect Or Avenge—40 Years Of The Strategic Defense Initiative is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN ...

Such was a top priority throughout the Strategic Defense Initiative era (1983-93). Maturing initiatives were canceled by the Clinton administration in early 1993, and the Pentagon’s Missile ...

For a livestreamed discussion on these themes and questions, please join the CSIS International Security Program virtually for a conversation with Dr. Aaron Bateman, Assistant Professor of History and ...

In an address to the nation Reagan announced his Strategic Defense Initiative. In a televised address to the nation, delivered on March 23, 1983, President Reagan announced his vision of a world ...