1. SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative
Ronald Reagan
Watch first 3 min.

2. MAD: Mutual Assured Destruction
Use of high-yield wmd’s by two opposing sides would effectively result in the annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
Neither side, once armed, has any rational incentive either to initiate a conflict or to disarm.

3. SDI: Strategic Defense Initiative
Space based missile defense system
Scientist Edward Teller promotes
“Star Wars” nickname from media
1983 speech: “Defend our people rather than avenge them.”

4. Zero Option
We would not deploy Pershing II Cruise missiles in Europe if,
The Soviets would remove their SS-4 and SS-5 ICBM.
Soviets viewed this as giving up something for nothing. (0)
Wanted SDI

5. SDI Reagan labels the Soviets as the “evil empire”
Soviets walk out of the zero option talks.

6. SDI Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the new leader of the Soviet Union.
Glasnost: openness or restructuring

7. 1987 Reagan and Gorbachev meet in Iceland.
Agree to remove ICBM in Europe.
Reagan recants evil empire comment.