Initiated by President Reagan in the mid-1980s, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) popularly known as "Star Wars," would defend against nuclear missiles, using an array of technologies, such as anti-missile-missiles launched from aircraft, satellites designed to focus intense energy beams on missiles in the upper atmosphere, and ground-based laser-beam projectors. This last device, set against the backdrop of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, is the focus of The Cardinal of the Kremlin.
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