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Reagan administration program, announced on 23 March 1983, to research a missile defense system.
23 Mar 1983 –
Strategic Defense Initiative. Reagan administration program, announced on 23 March 1983, to research a missile defense system.
23 Mar 1983
The United States government adopted the Strategic Defense Initiative.
The Strategic Defense Initiative caused the end of the Cold War.
According to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
The link to the end of the Cold War is disputed: Pavel Podvig (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 30 April 2013) argues from Soviet archival documents that SDI did not push the Soviet Union toward economic collapse; Serhii Plokhy calls the key American role in the Soviet demise a myth.
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