Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ at 40: Battle of the satellites

​DefenceTalkForty years after US president Ronald Reagan stunned the nation and world with his “Star Wars” plan to take nuclear competition into outer space, a new battle of the satellites has emerged in the stratosphere. Largely because it far outpaced technology at the time, very little became of Reagan’s March 23, 1983 declaration that the https://www.defencetalk.com/reagans-star-wars-at-40-battle-of-the-satellites-79964/