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SDI
Strategic Defense Initiative
a military plan started in the US in 1983 for making special weapons that could destroy an enemy country's missiles before they could reach the US. It was often called "Star Wars" because the plan was for a system of satellites containing laser weapons that would destroy missiles from space. Many scientists believed that the plan was impossible to achieve.
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