President Ronald Reagan argued that the Strategic Defense Initiative would
A. make nuclear war obsolete.
B. enable the United States to make a successful "first strike" anywhere in the world.
C. protect all of the United States' allies.
D. bridge the "missile gap" with the Soviet Union.
E. bring an end to communism.
Answer: A
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