Star Wars and Strategic defence initiative
- Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) “Star Wars”
- 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
- It was inspired by the movie Star Wars by President Reagan
Knowing that there was no real defence for the UNited States Reagan had thought on what to do about this defensive gap, his solution was Star Wars or the Strategic Defence Initiative. After seeing the movie of the same name the president had decided that a defence similar to what was seen in the movie would be needed to protect the nation. Eventually this idea had bankrupt the Soviet Union as they scrambled to