Strategic Defense Initiative
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title:
Strategic Defense Initiative
text:
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic nuclear missiles. The program was announced in 1983, by President Ronald Reagan. Reagan called for a system that would render nuclear weapons obsolete, and to end the doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD), which he described as a "suicide pact". Elements of the program reemerged in 2019 under the Space Development Agency (SDA). The Strategic Defense
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
U.S. military defense program (1984–1993)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
date created:
2001-12-10T14:50:19Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T06:32:25Z
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