The Strategic Defense Initiative Term Paper by Top Papers

The following paper looks at the Strategic Defense Initiative and outlines its emergence with specific focus upon why members of the United States government and military establishment were so enamored with it in the early 1980s. Additionally, the paper addresses its re-emergence under the administration of George W. Bush, and why it proved so controversial. Finally, the paper briefly approaches the situation from a sociological perspective, assessing what fears and preoccupations in American society which have allowed the costly and untested SDI to remain a viable policy option.