Strategic Defense Initiative: American missile defense system
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was a plan created by U.S.
President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative focused on defense instead on the offensive mutual assured destruction (MAD).
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