President Ronald Reagan argued that the Strategic Defense Initiative would
A) make nuclear war obsolete.
B) enable the United States to make a successful "first strike" anywhere in the world.
C) protect all of the United States' allies.
D) bring an end to communism.
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 create a missile defense system that could intercept and destroy incoming nuclear missiles, making the threat of nuclear war obsolete.

President Ronald Reagan Argued That the Strategic Defense Initiative Would