date: 2025-03-02 previous note: [[1004 Weaponization of Space]] related note(s): - tags: #weaponzing-space #space-power-theory # Cancellation of SDI The cancellation of SDI came after a series of Congressional budget cuts in the early nineties, and eventually President Clinton gave it the death blow in 1993. Even its staunchest critics and technical reviewers gave it major defensive program acquisition status. Even though it was the most advanced, least-expensive, and most cost-effective missile defense program ever created, it ended for political reasons and not technical ones. --- # References 1. [[Toward a Theory of Space Power]]