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In March 1983, President Ronald Reagan called upon American scientists to develop a capability to render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." The president's speech led to the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), an effort to develop a missile defense system with interceptors on land and in space that Reagan hoped would lead to a nuclearfree world. SDI quickly became a contentious subject in American-Soviet relations and among the transatlantic allies. Even though she rejected Reagan's ultimate goal for SDI, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher decided to have the United Kingdom become formally involved in SDI research and development. This article investigates the role of intelligence in shaping U.S. and British policy on SDI. It further explores how SDI impacted Anglo-American intelligence cooperation. President Ronald Reagan's military build-up was one of the most prominent symbols of his desire to reinvigorate American global leadership. Even though he endorsed modernizing the U.S. nuclear triad, he abhorred the concept of mutually assured destruction (MAD). 1 Consequently, in March 1983, Reagan called upon American scientists to develop a capability that would r

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Author

Aaron Bateman

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences