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The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars, was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan.The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union.t the end of the Strategic Defense Initiative, thirty billion dollars had been invested in the program and no laser and mirror system was ever used, not on land, not in space. The Strategic Defense Initiative was eventually abandoned, and after a few years, it was nothing other than a short chapter in history books.
In 1980, Ronald Reagan became president of the USA. As a strong anti-communist, he called the Soviet Union the evil empire and increased spending on arms. The US military developed the neutron bomb, cruise missiles and a Star Wars defence system using space satellites. By 1985, the Soviet Union was in trouble. In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the USSR. 1  He withdrew from Afghanistan. 2  He realised that the USSR could not afford the arms race, and opened the START (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks) with the USA. 3  He began to reform the Soviet system by allowing perestroika (competition in business) and glasnost (freedom).