A modern strategy for addressing the threats we now confront must be conceptually similar to Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative and draw from the lessons it conveyed. It must also maintain ...

Aiming for bipartisan support and cultivating international allies could help Trump advance the new high-tech shield.

The backstory: In 1983, President Ronald Reagan unveiled the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)—a bold proposal to protect the U.S. from nuclear attack using space-based lasers and interceptors.

March 23, 2023 Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative, 40 Years Later . Forty years ago on March 23, ...

But when President Ronald Reagan said that on March 23, 1983, in reference to his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), he was exactly right.

Ken Adelman, former Arms Control and Disarmament Agency director, and other former policy officials reflected on former President Ronald Reagan and the 40th anniversary of the Strategic Defense ...

Declaring the US was lagging the Soviet Union in the nuclear arms race, President Ronald Reagan launched the wildly ambitious Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to render Soviet ballistic missiles ...

But when President Ronald Reagan said that on March 23, 1983, in reference to his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), he was exactly right.