Strategic Defense Initiative

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the Strategic Defense Initiative

  1. (historical) A system proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.

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