Address to the Nation on National Security (Star Wars Speech)

Speaker:
Ronald Reagan
Published March 23, 1983

In this speech, President Ronald Reagan proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative, sometimes called "Star Wars". The goal was to use space and ground-based weapons systems as tools of strategic defense to defend the US from nuclear missile attack and end the strategy of mutual deterrence.

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