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Publication Date: April 2008
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Richard B. Cheney
Research Area: Military and defense
Keywords: National security; Vice President Dick Cheney; ABM Treaty; Mikhail Gorbachev
Type: Speech
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
In March 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced an initiative to build strategic defenses for the United States with a system to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles in flight--the Strategic Defense Initiative. Reagan's vision of missile defense helped accelerate our victory in the Cold War.