History of the United States II / Unit 16 USH2 2275 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Strategic Defense Initiative
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The idea
In March nineteen eighty-three Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative, a space-based system to shoot down incoming Soviet missiles.
In practice
Critics deriding it, the Yawp says, as a Star Wars fantasy.
Where people slip
The system was never built, and the plan, which the anchor says cost some seven and a half billion dollars, was abandoned.
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