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Not so long ago, right here in our Galaxy, Emperor Ronald Reagan announced the
other Star Wars, the Strategic Defense Initiative which started the last phase of the Cold War with the Soviet Union (whom, funnily enough, El Presidente called the
Evil Empire.) In these 25 years since his March 23 speech, calling the scientific community to give the "means of rendering
nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete," the SDI has morphed into various projects and technologies, like the Aegis interception system which
took down the evil spy satellite last February, as you can see in this official Department of Defense video. Here's the story of the SDI program and how it evolved:
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