Strategic Defense Initiative The presidents of the United States have always had a defense plan which is to protect our country from anything that comes our way. It was a very low priority to develop defenses against ballistic missiles until the 1950’s. (History Resources) This may have been brought up because it was the actual era in which missiles were starting to be made and can actually affect the United States as a hole. The president started to come up with ideas to try and protect the country from things such as missiles. It brings the bigger idea in which how it changed the world, the affects it brings, and how it grew from just being the thought of having a defense initiative as to growing with military defenses and technology in the world as it has grown. It can really affect the nation as a hole because it can either swipe out parts of the world slowly, protect the United States from being attacked, or it can cause the actual action of a country wanting to attack due to our defense initiatives which will be trying to prove its not strong and that the United States is not fully thinking of what they are doing. It brings many enemies or just the fact that the United States can be a target to have a missile attack upon since it has a defense against missile in the air or land-based installations to shoot down missiles in the air. (The New York by: The Learning Network). Having defense initiatives can change the world as a hole because it may have affects where countries would want to send attack missiles to breach our defense systems and may cause war upon one another. In 1950, the United States progressed in developing long-range missiles because of evidence that the U.S.S.R. was also developing these weapons (History Resources). This brings a point in which countries would start to build these types of weaponry to be safe from others or to try and