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- -The Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI)- Also known as "Star Wars", wanted to have a defensive umbrella over the U.S. to shoot down incoming missile from space
- -Soviets could not afford to keep up with this kind of science
- -The arms race would not fizzle out until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the USSR in 1985
Summary
In a play to finally end the cold war USA decided that the way to defeat the Soviet Union was to bankrupt them. In an effort to do this the United States of America decided to tell the world that they were building a satellite that would protect America from Nuclear missiles. Although it may not have been true by saying this Russia had no choice but to do the same and it was quite a bit less wealthy than the US. So the 'Star Wars' plan was most likely a way for America to bankrupt the Soviet Union.
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What would have occurred if the Soviet Union was able to catch up on the science with the US?