The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also called "Star Wars", was an anti-ballistic missile program. It was supposed to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. In The Colonel, Colonel Rennhull told Philip that the program was unrealistic.
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| - The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also called "Star Wars", was an anti-ballistic missile program. It was supposed to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. In The Colonel, Colonel Rennhull told Philip that the program was unrealistic.
- The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was proposed by then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983. The plan was to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD).
- The SDI was created in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan. According to President Reagan himself, the initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the pre-existing strategic offense doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), of which Reagan was a vocal critic. To oversee the development of the defense project, the U.S. Department of Defense created the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in 1984.
- The Strategic Defense Initiative (also known as "Star Wars", named after the popular science fiction franchise) was a project to develop a network of satellites that would fire lasers at any nuclear missile launched on Earth. It was proposed by President Ronald Reagan in 1983. Although the network was never built, new technology was developed during the research for it. (TXF: "Kill Switch") "Brilliant Pebbles" was a project that was part of the Strategic Defense Initiative. (TXF: "Kill Switch")
- The Strategic Defense Initiative (or SDI) was a program creating a network of land and space-based anti-missile defenses on Earth, intended to neutralize any international offensive missile attacks. It was initially proposed in 1983, at a very tense point in the Cold War, by United States President Ronald Reagan, and was given the nickname "Star Wars", after a popular film series of the day.
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| - The Strategic Defense Initiative (also known as "Star Wars", named after the popular science fiction franchise) was a project to develop a network of satellites that would fire lasers at any nuclear missile launched on Earth. It was proposed by President Ronald Reagan in 1983. Although the network was never built, new technology was developed during the research for it. (TXF: "Kill Switch") "Brilliant Pebbles" was a project that was part of the Strategic Defense Initiative. (TXF: "Kill Switch") In 1995, the Red-Haired Man claimed that Doctor Shiro Zama's research into biologically immune soldiers was much more important than the Star Wars program. (TXF: "731")
- The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also called "Star Wars", was an anti-ballistic missile program. It was supposed to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. In The Colonel, Colonel Rennhull told Philip that the program was unrealistic.
- The Strategic Defense Initiative (or SDI) was a program creating a network of land and space-based anti-missile defenses on Earth, intended to neutralize any international offensive missile attacks. It was initially proposed in 1983, at a very tense point in the Cold War, by United States President Ronald Reagan, and was given the nickname "Star Wars", after a popular film series of the day. When Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1986, Gorbachev made it clear that he didn't want the SDI deployed and would be willing to make a significant reduction in Soviet nuclear weapons in exchange for not deploying it. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1) The SDI network was deactivated with the signing of the United Earth Accords. It was the last space-based military system directed at Earth, as opposed to extraterrestrial threats. (TOS novel: Strangers from the Sky) The SDI concept may have served as an inspiration for the Mars Defense Perimeter, which was designed with a similar purpose of neutralizing and deterring offensive actions against the inner Sol System. (TNG episode: "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II") SDI has not been fully implemented as of this date (the threat it was intended to counter would cease to exist within a decade), and has gone through several name and mission objectives changes since the publication of Strangers.
- The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was proposed by then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983. The plan was to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD).
- The SDI was created in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan. According to President Reagan himself, the initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the pre-existing strategic offense doctrine of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD), of which Reagan was a vocal critic. To oversee the development of the defense project, the U.S. Department of Defense created the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization in 1984. Popularly dubbed "The Star Wars Project" by the media, in reference to the popular 1977 science fiction movie trilogy by George Lucas, the ambitious initiative was widely criticized as being "unrealistic, even unscientific", as well as for "threatening to destabilize MAD and re-ignite 'an offensive arms race'". But no one outside of the government (and the military) knew the truth: it wasn't possible with the technologies that existed at the time. Simply put, the project was a failure.
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