President Donald Trump wants a next-generation missile shield with space-based interceptors ... Reagan said in 1983 as he announced the SDI. Reagan called on the scientific community that created ...

Officially dubbed the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), the program started back in 1984 ... being capable of pushing the missile defense system, expected to weigh 99,200 pounds (45,000 kg ...

was deputy SDI director, director of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization ... director of the National Test Facility Joint Program Office, and vice commander of the USAF Space Warfare ...

If the Soviets launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, the pebbles ... in the context of the president’s SDI effort. Thus, a special access program was born until the second director ...

Missile defense has been ... the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) in 1983. Over $250 billion has been allocated to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA)’s program from 1985 to 2023.