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The '''Strategic Defense Initiative''' (SDI), commonly called '''Star Wars''', was a proposal made by U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] directly to the surprised [[America]]n people in a televised addressed on March 23, 1983, to build a ground- and space-based system to protect the U.S. from nuclear ballistic missiles. The system has not yet been fully set up, but the research from this paved the way for the anti-ballistic missile systems of today, including the [[Patriot missile]] that provided the defense against [[Iraq]]i Scud missiles launched against [[American]] forces and [[Israel]] during the [[Gulf War]]. It is believed by some experts that panic among the leadership of the [[Soviet Union]] about SDI contributed to their financial and political collapse. (The Soviet Union was dominated by a hopeless [[Atheism|atheistic]], [[communist]] mindset.)
The '''Strategic Defense Initiative''' (SDI), commonly called '''Star Wars''', was a proposal made by U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] directly to the surprised [[America]]n people in a televised addressed on March 23, 1983, to build a [[Missile-defense system|ground- and space-based system]] to protect the U.S. from nuclear ballistic missiles. The system has not yet been fully set up, but the research from this paved the way for the anti-ballistic missile systems of today, including the [[Patriot missile]] that provided the defense against [[Iraq]]i Scud missiles launched against [[American]] forces and [[Israel]] during the [[Gulf War]]. It is believed by some experts that panic among the leadership of the [[Soviet Union]] about SDI contributed to their financial and political collapse. (The Soviet Union was dominated by a hopeless [[Atheism|atheistic]], [[communist]] mindset.)
[[Phyllis Schlafly]] advocated for a missile defense system beginning as early as 1966, nearly two decades before Reagan adopted it. In a speech in October 1966, Phyllis Schlafly urged [[globalist]] [[Robert McNamara]] to drop his opposition to the Nike X missile defense program:
[[Phyllis Schlafly]] advocated for a missile defense system beginning as early as 1966, nearly two decades before Reagan adopted it. In a speech in October 1966, Phyllis Schlafly urged [[globalist]] [[Robert McNamara]] to drop his opposition to the Nike X missile defense program: