President Ronald Reagan argued that the Strategic Defense Initiative would
A) enable the United States to make a successful "first strike" anywhere in the world.
B) bring an end to communism.
C) protect all of the United States' allies.
D) make nuclear war obsolete.
E) bridge the "missile gap" with the Soviet Union.

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President Reagan believed that the Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as "Star Wars," would make nuclear war obsolete by creating a defensive shield that could intercept and destroy incoming missiles before they reached their targets. The goal was to create a defensive system that would protect the United States and its allies from potential attacks and therefore eliminate the need for nuclear deterrence.

President Ronald Reagan Argued That the Strategic Defense Initiative Would