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What was the program Reagan announced in 1983 to protect America from nuclear missiles?
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He called it SDI or the Strategic Defense Initiative; the press renamed it Starwars (for the recently released movie). What it actually was was another idea of Edward Teller's to get more weapon development funding for his lab (then sagging because of reduced demand for new offensive nuclear weapons). Testing some of the proposed defense weapons (e.g. the x-ray laser) would have eventually required breaking the 1963 Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty, as it would have required nuclear explosions in space to "pump" the lasers, etc.
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