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SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative

SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative. Ronald Reagan. Watch first 3 min. MAD: Mutual Assured Destruction. Use of high-yield wmd’s by two opposing sides would effectively result in the annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.

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SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative

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  1. SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative Ronald Reagan Watch first 3 min.

  2. MAD: Mutual Assured Destruction • Use of high-yield wmd’s by two opposing sides would effectively result in the annihilation of both the attacker and the defender. • Neither side, once armed, has any rational incentive either to initiate a conflict or to disarm.

  3. SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative • Space based missile defense system • Scientist Edward Teller promotes • “Star Wars” nickname from media • 1983 speech: “Defend our people rather than avenge them.”

  4. Zero Option • We would not deploy Pershing II Cruise missiles in Europe if, • The Soviets would remove their SS-4 and SS-5 ICBM. • Soviets viewed this as giving up something for nothing. (0) • Wanted SDI

  5. SDI • Reagan labels the Soviets as the “evil empire” • Soviets walk out of the zero option talks.

  6. SDI • Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the new leader of the Soviet Union. • Glasnost: openness or restructuring

  7. 1987 Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Iceland. • Agree to remove ICBM in Europe. • Reagan recants evil empire comment.

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