Star Wars
!980 Arms Race:
-The USSR had 3:2 advantage in sheer numbers - New issue is how to deliver them - Cruise missiles are placed in Europe by NATO - 'Smart Weapons' planes, weapons, and even tanks begin to be controlled with computer and are 'guided' Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) - The 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 the USSR in 1985 "The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted. It belongs to the brave."
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Reagan came up with far fetched ideas to beat the USSR. Arms race ensued.
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