reluctantly conceded that the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and the Reagan buildup "seemed to impress the Soviets as a challenge that they might not be able to meet." Hanging tough paid off.

In 1983, President Reagan in a televised speech proposed what he called the Strategic Defense Initiative. Its core idea was ...

When, in March 1983 in a nationally televised speech, Ronald Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative, he asked the American “scientific community” — “those who gave us nuclear ...

Indeed, for the first time since President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), it opens the door for building a truly cost-effective defense to protect Americans from an existential ...

President Trump has proposed a next-gen missile shield, reviving Reagan's SDI vision. The plan, "Iron Dome for America," ...