arms race a giant misunderstanding and there by remove yourself from the struggle of right and wrong and good and evil. two and a half weeks later reagan bucked the nuclear freeze movement to go one step further. he proposed to make nuclear weapons obsolete by inventing a high-tech missile defense shield. he called it the strategic defense initiative or sdi critics called it star wars. the proposal aimed to scrap america s decade old deterrent strategy of destruction. the human spirit must be capable of rising above other nations and human beings by threatening their existence. the dirty secret was he was a nuclear abolitions. we thought he was o hawk like t rest of us he was a hawk like the rest of us except for one thing he wanted to see theable ligs the removal of all nike layer weapop nuclear weapons.