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In four pages this paper examines Ronald Reagan’s 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), more commonly known as the ‘Star Wars’ program in an overview that argues the national security he promised America that would result from such technology was nothing more than a carefully crafted illusion of Cold War rhetoric. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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File: TG15_TGrrstarwars.rtf
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last act of his long career, Ronald Reagan had a second chance to play the role of hero in life. As President of the United States, the Cold Warrior
dreamed of saving America and the world from nuclear annihilation. Reagan viewed the world in terms of black and white, good and evil. According to journalist Lou Cannon,
author of the biography President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, the 40th Presidents fascination with Armageddon, the biblical story of the worlds last battle strongly influenced his approach to
foreign policy (Cannon 247). The tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States, which had been simmering since the end of World War II, and could explode into
World War III with the use of nuclear weapons. Relying upon overinflated CIA estimates, Reagan asserted that the United States needed to replenish its supply of nuclear weapons rapidly,
which he believed paled in comparison with the Soviet Unions stockpile (Eisendrath, Goodman, and Marsh 10). A combined desire to win the battle of Armageddon and to restore American
prestige, which had been battered badly in recent years led to President Reagans ambitious 1983 program known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), which the media quickly nicknamed Star Wars.
Reagans grand plan for protecting the United States from Armageddon was heavily promoted by the Great Communicators trademark persuasive rhetoric. However, in politics as in the movies, appearances
can often be deceiving. President Reagan introduced his Star Wars program to the American public on March 23, 1983 by asking his fellow citizens: "What if free people could live
secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles
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