Why 33 Minutes Matters
For more than 200 years, providing for “the common defense” of the sovereign soil of the United States has been an unquestioned mandate delivered to our government by the Constitution. But with the...
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Distorted Documentaries: Politicization Hurts the Movies
Documentaries are supposed to “document” facts, but that’s hard to tell by watching some recent films. Liberal activists such as Michael Moore and Robert Greenwald have turned the American documentary...
View ArticleFive Heroes of Missile Defense
There are many champions of missile defense across America, but the legacy of these five individuals is truly remarkable. 1) President Ronald Reagan first learned about technology related to missile...
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Missiles and Nuclear Weapons Around the World 36 Years Later
President Ronald Reagan got the ball rolling on the development of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) with his Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983. Twenty-five years after he proposed that the U.S....
View ArticleReykjavik Summit 20th Anniversary
On October 10, 2006, former Secretary of State George Shultz and former Ambassadors Rozanne Ridgeway and Max Kampelman discussed the Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as “Star Wars,” at the...
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Raytheon’s Components Played Role In Missile Shoot-Down
On Tuesday, we blogged about the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) successfully shooting down a missile during a simulated attack. The missile was tracked and intercepted by a kill vehicle 25 minutes...
View ArticleSan Francisco Examiner on Missile Defense
The San Francisco Examiner published an editorial on missile defense and mentioned the Heritage Foundation’s high-definition documentary, “33 Minutes: Protecting America in the New Missile Age.” The...
View ArticleStrategic Defense Initiative Anniversary
When President Ronald Reagan introduced his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) in 1983, opponents and critics in Congress sarcastically referred to the program as “Star Wars.” Such degrading rhetoric...
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James Carafano Compares Reagan and Obama on Russia
From James Carafano’s latest Washington Examiner column: President Obama wants a world without nuclear weapons. So did President Reagan. The similarities end there. How we get to a nuke-free world...
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