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BalancedPolitics.org - Missile Defense (Pros & Cons, Arguments For and Against): "The Cold War, which produced tens of thousands of nuclear weapons capable of blowing up the Earth several times over, ended in the early 1990s. Prior to the end of that war, President Reagan started work on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), a research program designed to construct an anti-nuclear defense system. Some of the system would be space-based; it would be designed to lock onto a target and destroy it before it hits the ground. By admission of former Russian President Gorbachev, the fear of American technology advances and the exorbitant cost of trying to match Reagan's defense spending both led to the downfall of the Soviet Union.

The highly controversial project was discontinued by President Clinton while he was in office, but the current President Bush has recently revived the program. With the Cold War over, the controversy has grown. In an age of terrorism, do the security benefits justify the massive cost, which will likely reach into the hundreds of billions? "