LaRouche & the Strategic Defense Initiative-Class #5

Space, Strategic Defense of Earth

Class #5: From the Moon to Mars: LaRouche, Reagan, and the SDI

Featured speakers: Benjamin Deniston and Paul Gallagher. On March 23, 1983, President Ronald Reagan made a decision—against strong resistance from many of his advisers—to make Lyndon LaRouche’s policy of beam weapon defense, the “Strategic Defense Initiative,” official U.S. policy. Had the SDI been implemented as Reagan and LaRouche envisioned, nuclear weapons would have been rendered “impotent and obsolete,” and the possibility of nuclear war a relic humanity’s past. The SDI was part of an overall vision for economic transformation, subsumed under a Moon-Mars mission orientation, which…READ MORE