79K views · 198 reactions | "When they come back to the table, Gorbachev says, 'I have one condition'...Reagan is furious...there weren't supposed to be any conditions." Sunday, on The Presidency, a look back at conservative criticism of President Ronald Reagan's foreign policy toward the Soviet Union during the 1980s. Watch at 8pm ET on C-SPAN 3. | American History TV | Facebook

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), nicknamed the "Star Wars program", was a proposed missile defense system intended to protect the United States from nuclear attack. The concept was announced on March 23, 1983, by President Ronald Reagan, a vocal critic of the doctrine of mutually assured destruction (MAD). | Timeline - World History