Editorial: Trump is fixating on another 'wall' that will almost certainly fail to live up to his promises
by Los Angeles Times
Jan 28, 2019
3 minutes
In 1983, in what came to be known as his "Star Wars" speech, President Ronald Reagan unveiled an ambitious vision for a missile defense system that would render the need for traditional nuclear deterrence unnecessary. Reagan asked: "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own
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