The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), derisively nicknamed the Star Wars program, was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United...

part of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) and one year later BMDO was renamed the U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command. The name "Ballistic...

orbit. On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative, a research program with a goal of developing a defensive system...

War, which has been referred to as the "first space war." The Strategic Defense Initiative and creation of Air Force Space Command in the 1980s marked a...

Heritage Foundation, helped Reagan ultimately to announce the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) in 1983. Further underground nuclear tests through the...

defense against ballistic missiles. It had its origins in the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) which was established in 1983 by Ronald Reagan and which...

Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) was set up in 1984 within the United States Department of Defense to oversee the Strategic Defense Initiative...

missiles, having outlawed the practice in 2022. The era of the Strategic Defense Initiative (proposed in 1983) focused primarily on the development of systems...

attack from a less sophisticated adversary. Unlike the earlier Strategic Defense Initiative program, it is not designed to be a robust shield against a large...

The Strategic Defense Initiative earned the nickname "Star Wars" due to criticism from Senator Ted Kennedy in which he described the Strategic Defense Initiative...

"Smart Rocks," a concept promoted by Daniel O. Graham under the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Smart Rocks envisioned large orbital battle stations equipped...

devices. Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, an organization set up to oversee the Strategic Defense Initiative; now known as the Missile Defense Agency...

directed energy weapons examined by the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization for potential use in missile defense. In July 1989, the accelerator was launched...

particle-beam weapons and lasers, including support for elements of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). He opposed the Soviet Union and supported a military buildup...

explosive in what was called Project Chariot, and Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. Teller was a recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award and the Albert...

Aerospace Defense Command to better reflect its role in both air and space defense. The Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative brought a...

presidency of Ronald Reagan proposed a missile defense programme tagged the Strategic Defense Initiative, a space-based anti-ballistic missile system derided...

build a US space-based missile defense. This plan was the foundation for President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. Richardson went on to serve...

Reagan Administration's space initiatives, including the earliest versions of what would become the Strategic Defense Initiative. Pournelle was born in Shreveport...

the mid-1980s when the concepts were revived as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative. The design for Project Orion originally used small hydrogen...

agency's director. The novel also features the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a real-life missile-defense system developed by the United States during...

never used them. Dr Parnas took a public stand against the US Strategic Defense Initiative (also known as "Star Wars") in the mid 1980s, arguing that it...

such as the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. Development began in 1985 by the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, which pioneered the development...

Directed-energy weapon that started development as part of the US Strategic Defense Initiative. It included the Alpha laser, a high energy hydrogen fluoride...

nuclear arsenals. In March 1983, Reagan introduced the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a defense project that would have used ground- and space-based...

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another textbook example of reflexive control is the American Strategic Defense Initiative program, which forced the Soviet Union to spend significant resources...

the pact. In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan launched the Strategic Defense Initiative as well as the MX and Midgetman ICBM programs. China developed...

Bend, Indiana, US Space-Based Interceptor, a project of the Strategic Defense Initiative State Bank of India, largest bank of India with a multinational...

director of NASA and former director of President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative from 1984 until 1989. He is a businessman who served as chairman...