He made SDI (the Strategic Defensive Initiative ... The Cold War ended in triumph for the idea of freedom because of Ronald Reagan, not Mikhail Gorbachev, who as late as 1988 quoted the Communist ...

The Defense Department will soon brief the president on possible options for a planned missile defense system that could cost ...

The Vatican's Secretary of State, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, said, "Ronald Reagan obligated the ... military buildup under Jimmy Carter and Reagan nor SDI had any real impact on gross spending ...

Former President Ronald Reagan had a vision for a missile ... Reagan said in 1983 as he announced the SDI. Reagan called on the scientific community that created nuclear weapons to develop the ...

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

President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, which he proposed in the mid-1980s, was controversial and negatively dubbed “Star Wars” by critics who were inspired by the 1977 epic ...

akin to former President Ronald Reagan’s “Strategic Defense Initiative” — dubbed “Star Wars” by 1980s critics for its fanciful concept of shooting down incoming missiles with space ...

In fact, when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev walked out of the October 1986 summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, because President Ronald Reagan wouldn't abandon his Strategic Defense Initiative ...