In March 1983, U.S. President Ronald Reagan proposed a massive, technologically complex defensive system that was intended to defend the country from nuclear attacks by intercepting intercontinental ballistic missiles using laser battle stations based both on Earth and in space. This project's official name was the "Strategic Defense Initiative" (SDI), but given that many aspects of the proposal were previously familiar to the public only from science fiction, it was quickly dubbed "Star Wars," after this movie. At first, this nickname was used in a largely derogatory manner (for example, the day after Reagan's speech introducing SDI to the nation, Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy was quoted in the Washington Post calling the initiatives "reckless Star Wars schemes") and the Reagan administration's official policy was to avoid the use of the nickname "Star Wars," but it nonetheless quickly became a neutral shorthand used by the government, the press, and the general public alike. SDI has never come remotely close to being instituted.

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