Star Wars and Strategic Defensive Initiative
· The strategic defense initiative: Using satellites in space to detect missiles and shoot them down before they could land.
· Soviets could not afford to keep up with this kind of science.
· The arms race would not fizzle out until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the USSR in 1985.
· Soviets could not afford to keep up with this kind of science.
· The arms race would not fizzle out until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the USSR in 1985.
STAR WARS
"I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering those nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."
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Subjunctive Question: What if Reagnomics took a different approach to coercing Russia to overspend? Was "Star Wars" the most effective? Could they have benefitted from another strategy?
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