Nisma e Mbrojtjes Strategjike (SDI)

Nisma e Mbrojtjes Strategjike (SDI)

An ABM research program dedicated to finding technology to destroy incoming ICBMs. It was begun in 1983, after Reagan's "Star Wars" speech in which he called on the nation's scientific community to "give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete. . . "

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