APEX
What was one major motivation behind Ronald Reagan's decision to launch
the Strategic Defense Initiative?
O
A. To pressure the Soviet Union to withdraw its military forces from
Eastern Europe
O
B. To force the Soviet Union to increase its military spending despite
having a weak economy
O
C. To limit the number of nuclear weapons possessed by both the
United State and the Soviet Union
O
D. To overthrow Latin American governments that were supportive of
communism

In February 1983, the Joint Chiefs of Staff requested the then US President Ronald Reagan to give support, to pay more attention to US strategic plans in developing effective missile defense.

The demands of the generals remained silent as Reagan presented his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) project to the public on March 23 that year, adding that the military component was being added to space exploration and use, which became popular with the public under the name " Star Wars.

Regardless of the doubts expressed about the realization of the whole project on the creation of a new missile shield, in 1986, with the support of the Minister of Defense, President Reagan decided that after 6 months of research and study it was time to begin the process of procuring the first elements, the first phase of the system architecture of the future missile shield USA (Strategic Defense Initiative Phase I Architecture).

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glendys13579 glendys13579 · Answer 2 · 2020-04-15T15:20:20+02:00

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Answer: B

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