STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE STAR WARS RONALD REAGAN 33112

Support Our Channel : High Frontier was a private company that promoted spacebased strategic defense against nuclear ICBMs. It was founded by Daniel O. Graham, a retired lieutenant general in the U. S. Army who is often called the father of SDI. This film promotes Graham s initiative: a kineticenergy weapon that could take out Soviet ICBMs as they flew towards the USA. It seemed plausible enough, but eventually the SDI plan diverged from High Frontier. The final SDI plan as put forward by Reagan s team relied on directed energy technologies such as lasers and particle beams to achieve shootdowns, and even then it proved so challenging as to never be deployed. The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was proposed by U. S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use groundbased and spacebased systems to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (Intercontinental ballistic missiles and Submarinelaunched ballistic missiles). The