Star Wars or Strategic Defense Initiative: What's in a name?
Popular culture can influence debates over security policy. This article studies the use of Star Wars in the debate over Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). The term Star Wars was widely used to refer to SDI during debates in the 1980s. Scholars have pointed to both disabling and enabl...
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Oxford University Press
2019
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