National Security History, and that was the
50th anniversary of the Pentagon.
Today, we are here to observe another point of
passage, which is the end of the Star Wars era.
We are renaming and refocusing the Strategic
Defense Initiative office to reflect the
Clinton administration's changes in the priorities.
From now on, the SDIO will be the Ballistic
Missile Defense Organization.
The fate of Star Wars was sealed by the
collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Star Wars decade began on March 23, 1983,
when President Ronald Reagan announced...