STAR WARS?

As part of a reinvigorated confrontational strategy against the Soviet Union, a cutting-edge anti-ballistic missile defence network is announced by the United

States in what becomes a comical ruse – with astonishing results. The Strategic Defence Initiative, dubbed ‘Star Wars’, turns out to be a fictitious military project that convinces the Soviets that they can never win the arms race.

US President Ronald Reagan in front of a mock up of an orbital space station