SDI research went ahead, although it did not achieve the hoped-for result.

It was never truly developed or deployed, though certain aspects of SDI research and technologies paved the way for some anti-ballistic missile systems of today.

LLNL continued to consider more edgy technology but their X-ray laser system development was cancelled in 1977 ( although research into X-ray lasers was resurrected during the 1980s as part of the SDI ).

Both countries began to reduce expenditure from 1989 and the Russian Federation unilaterally discontinued all SDI research in 1992.

Popularly dubbed " Star Wars " at the time, SDI was a multi-billion dollar research project for a missile defense system that could shoot down incoming Soviet missiles and eliminate the need for mutually assured destruction.

In 1986 Reagan had proposed banning all ballistic missiles, but wanted to continue research on the Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) that could potentially be shared with the Soviets.

Gorbachev, however, citing a desire to strengthen the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty ( ABM Treaty ), added the condition that any SDI research be confined to laboratories for the ten year period in question.

Reagan argued that his proposed SDI research was allowed by any reasonable interpretation of the ABM treaty, and that he could not forget the pledge he made to Americans to investigate whether SDI was viable.

Some, including Reagan staffer Jack F. Matlock, Jr., attribute Reagan ’ s refusal to compromise on SDI testing to a mistaken belief that the proposed restrictions would be detrimental to the program, whereas in reality, Matlock contends, they would have had little effect on research that was still in its very early stages.

In 1980, Winter received a three-year appointment to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ), serving under Dr. Bob Cooper during the very early years of research into the Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) proposed by President Ronald Reagan.

The treaty was undisturbed until Ronald Reagan announced his Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) on March 23, 1983.

On the one hand, Reagan stated that SDI was " consistent with ... the ABM Treaty ", but on the other hand, he viewed it as a defensive system that would help reduce the possibility that mutual assured destruction ( MAD ) would become reality ; he even suggested that the Soviets would be given access to the SDI technology.

Nevertheless, SDI was against the spirit — if not the letter — of the ABM Treaty, which sought to pursue the principle of MAD.

In The Nuclear Predicament, Beckman claims that one of the central goals of Soviet diplomacy was to terminate SDI.

The Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) was proposed by U. S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.

In light of Reagan's vocal criticism of the MAD doctrine ( Mutually Assured Destruction ) the SDI ( Strategic Defense Initiative ) was an important part of his defense policy intended to offset MAD bias.

This technology was later used by the SDI and expanded into the Exoatmospheric Reentry-vehicle Interception System ( ERIS ) program.

Research out of hypervelocity railgun technology was done to build an information base about rail guns so that SDI planners would know how to apply the technology to the proposed defense system.

Though regarded as one of the most capable SDI systems, the Brilliant Pebbles program was canceled in 1994 by the BMDO.

Like other parts of SDI, the sensor system initially was very large-scale, but after the Soviet threat diminished it was cut back.

However, once the SDI program shifted toward theater missile defense in the early 1990s, the system left SDIO control and was transferred to the Air Force.

SDI was not just lasers ; in this Kinetic Energy Weapon test, a seven gram Lexan projectile was fired from a light gas gun at a velocity of 23, 000 feet per second ( 7, 000 meters per second or 15, 682 miles per hour ) at a cast aluminum block.

The unmanned DC-X technology demonstrator, originally developed by McDonnell Douglas for the Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) program office, was an attempt to build a vehicle that could lead to an SSTO vehicle.

This was implemented by du Samacom disabling their SDI & ASI streams.

Tadin created a new company, MMT Investments, which was used to transfer a $ 1. 25 million bailout loan from Tadin to SDI.

The MEMS-based gyro was initially made practical and producible by Systron Donner Inertial ( SDI ).

This policy was further developed by the Reagan Administration with the announcement of the Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI, nicknamed " Star Wars "), the goal of which was to develop space-based technology to destroy Soviet missiles before they reached the U. S.

SDI was criticized by both the Soviets and many of America's allies ( including Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher ) because, were it ever operational and effective, it would have undermined the " assured destruction " required for MAD.

For example, Microsoft changed its Office applications from SDI to MDI mode and then back to SDI, although the degree of implementation varies from one component to another.

* XFReader is a simple Player from OpenCube Technologies that runs under Windows and enables users to play back all MXF files on a display unit or an SDI Video Screen.

Going back to the figures used by BSAC to categorise solo diving as dangerous it turns out that during 2001 – 2008 all but one of these " solo diving deaths " were in actuality paired buddy divers that became separated in the fatal incident ( 75 %) or else were divers diving far outside of the limits set by both SDI and PADI for the practise of solo diving ( 20 %) ( i. e. actually deep divers, rebreather tech-divers, cave divers ).

As part of mitigating risks in solo diving the following specific practises have been adopted by SDI for solo diving or are key recommendations by Robert Von Maier — author of the 1991 book Solo Diving: The Art of Underwater Self-Sufficiency:

High end cameras and VTRs may have additional professional outputs such as SDI, SDTI or analog component video.

To position himself as Reagan's successor, Kemp called for Shultz's resignation based on claims that Shultz had neglected freedom fighters in Afghanistan and Nicaragua and had waffled on SDI.

The current effort to deploy Aegis ballistic missile defense ( ABMD ) was begun during the mid 1980s as part of President Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ).

The Institute's primary aim, initially, was to play a role in defense policy debates, defending Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI, or " Star Wars ").

The Internal Revenue Service issued a lien against SDI in March 1995 for $ 326, 951 and in June 1996 for $ 997, 382 for failing to turn over hundreds of thousands of dollars in payroll taxes, including money withheld from its employees ' paychecks.

Until around 1994 – 1995 their logos were opaque white and black, presumably due to being inserted into the analog CVBS signal just before being broadcast instead of an analog YUV, RGB or digital SDI signal, while in the mid-1990s they upgraded to colorized but still opaque logos.

In June 2008 Bosch formed SB LiMotive, a 50: 50 joint company with Samsung SDI.

The Italian Democratic Socialists ( SDI ), which were part of the federation and fight the 2004 European and the 2005 regional elections within it, decided not to take part of the joint list for the 2006 general election and, otherwise, to form a common list within The Union coalition called the Rose in the Fist along with the libertarian Italian Radicals.

Initially some of these experiments were intended to include both Christian-inspired parties and more secular ones, such as SDI and PRI, but, in October 2000, only PPI, Dem, UDEUR and RI agreed to join forces in a joint list called " The Daisy " for the 2001 general election.