Under the SDIO's Innovative Sciences and Technology Office, headed by physicist and engineer Dr. The United States holds a significant advantage in the field of comprehensive advanced missile defense systems through decades of extensive research and testing a number of these concepts and obtained technologies and insights were transferred to subsequent programs. A wide array of advanced weapon concepts, including lasers, particle beam weapons and ground- and space-based missile systems were studied, along with various sensor, command and control, and high-performance computer systems that would be needed to control a system consisting of hundreds of combat centers and satellites spanning the entire globe and involved in a very short battle. The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) was set up in 1984 within the US Department of Defense to oversee development.
Elements of the program reemerged in 2019 with the Space Development Agency (SDA). Reagan called upon American scientists and engineers to develop a system that would render nuclear weapons obsolete.
The concept was announced on March 23, 1983, by President Ronald Reagan, a vocal critic of the doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD), which he described as a " suicide pact". The Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI), derisively nicknamed the " Star Wars program", was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons ( intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles).
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