Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) "Star Wars"
- Wanted to have a defensive umbrella over the US to shoot down incoming missiles from space
- Soviets could not afford to keep up with this kind of science
- The arms race would not fizzle out untul Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the USSR in 1985
Summary
This was when they had wanted to have a 'defensive umbrella' over top of the United States. This was to shoot down incoming missiles coming all the way from Space. This was way too expensive so the Soviets could not afford to keep up with this idea.