Star wars and Strategic Defense Initiative
Notes
-SDI, Also known as Star Wars, wanted to have a defensive umbrella over the U.S. to shoot down incoming missiles from space
-Soviets could not afford to keep up with this kind of science
-The arms race would not fizzle out until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in USSR in 1985.
-Soviets could not afford to keep up with this kind of science
-The arms race would not fizzle out until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in USSR in 1985.
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Summary
The SDI came from the idea of Star Wars. If the the U.S was able to get the SDI of the ground and running then the world would be a very scary place today. The whole point of the SDI however was to exhaust the Russian's supplies. The Russians felt as if they needed to do everything first, and beat the Americans. But they ended up wasting their money on projects like this one. Since the Americans were so well off they could afford to spend money on silly projects like this one.