Hollywood is preparing another version of "Star Wars." So are congressional Republicans. Next week the House is scheduled to vote on a plan sponsored by Speaker Newt Gingrich to construct a missile defense system by the year 2003. The bases would probably cost more than $50 billion, require ...
WASHINGTON —The first phase of a “Star Wars” missile defense system cannot be deployed before the turn of the century and will cost more than $170 billion, figures that contrast sharply with more optimistic Reagan Administration estimates, a new congressional study has concluded. Even if the ...
Star Wars 2: attack of the drones.The article discusses the U.S. federal government's potential implementation of a drone-missile defence system as of May 2014 as a means of protecting nations from ballistic missile attacks from countries such as North Korea. According to the article, the ...
WASHINGTON —The Republican-controlled Senate on Tuesday night defeated a variety of efforts to trim a proposed expenditure of $2.9 billion in fiscal 1986 for President Reagan’s so-called “Star Wars” missile defense system. The votes amounted to a strong endorsement of the controversial space-b...
With that, the president's commitment to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) became certain. Ultimately, SDI reflected Western political idealism, a powerful ingredient in the struggle to finally conquer the terrors of the Cold War and to allay the threat of nuclear holocaust. The Star Wars ...
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When Ronald Reagan would later co-opt the language of the “evil empire” for the communist enemy and even the term “Star Wars” for a proposed, never-built ballistic missile defense system, it became easy to forget that, in its original themes, Darth Vader and the Empire represented not...
As much as people love to give him grief for what would end up being a trillion-dollar quagmire, or accuse him of wanting Star Wars so that the United States could have a legitimate advantage over the Soviets in a nuclear war, Reagan seemed to truly believe that ballistic missile defense ...