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- proper noun A system proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the
United States from attack by strategicnuclear ballistic missiles . Abbreviation:SDI .
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Examples
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That was in 1966, and it was the beginning of what is now called the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars.
Ten Minutes, That's It Benjamin Kral 2010
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He wanted a huge R & D program for what became known as "Star Wars" - an impermeable anti-missile shield in space called the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
A Review of Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis - The Last Days of the American Republic 2007
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He wanted a huge R & D program for what became known as "Star Wars" - an impermeable anti-missile shield in space called the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI).
A Review of Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis - The Last Days of the American Republic 2007
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Those memories, which never left him, explain almost every major political and scientific act of his career, from his advocacy of the far more powerful nuclear weapon known as the Super to his passion for what became known as the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars.
The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006
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Those memories, which never left him, explain almost every major political and scientific act of his career, from his advocacy of the far more powerful nuclear weapon known as the Super to his passion for what became known as the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars.
The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006
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This is the Missile Defense program, the successor to what, in Ronald Reagan's day, was called the Strategic Defense Initiative or "Star Wars."
Hullabaloo 2003
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He has a doctorate in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was known primarily as a defense technologist who had worked on the Reagan-era missile defense shield effort formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative.
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He has a doctorate in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was known primarily as a defense technologist who had worked on the Reagan-era missile defense shield effort formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative.
FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2011
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He has a doctorate in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was known primarily as a defense technologist who had worked on the Reagan-era missile defense shield effort formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative.
FOXNews.com foxnewsonline@foxnews.com 2011
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He has a doctorate in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was known primarily as a defense technologist who had worked on the Reagan-era missile defense shield effort formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative.
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