Thirty years ago on March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced his commitment to develop and deploy an advanced defense capability, the Strategic Defense Initiative, to protect America from a Soviet missile attack. The Soviet Union recognized that they couldn’t compete, and SDI has been credited with hastening their decline. Yet despite great scientific and technological superiority in past decades, U.S. strategic missile and nuclear deterrence protections under the current administration continue to erode. …read more
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