By Bob Hoge
Some readers may remember when then-President Ronald Reagan was widely ridiculed for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), nicknamed the Star Wars program, which was an effort to develop weapons systems that could knock ballistic nuclear missiles out of the sky before they could rain down on our territory. Liberals were aghast that anyone would try to find an alternative to the âmutually assured destructionâ (MAD) strategy, which Reagan called a âsuicide pact.â
Well Joe, some of the technology developed as a result of that initiative helped develop the Iron Dome, which Israel uses to shoot down Iranian missiles and Houthi projectiles.
Reagan was right to be looking to the future because in coming years the battle may very well be fought in space. The Russians think so, evidently, because according to U.S. officials they just launched a space weapon that may have the capability to track and destroy our satellites.
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