Editing Strategic Defense Initiative (section)

==Timeline==
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  at:03/08/1983 text:"March 23, 1983, Reagan "Star Wars" speech."
  at:03/27/1984 text:"March 27, 1984, Lt. Gen. James A. Abrahamson was appointed as first Director of the SDIO."
  at:06/10/1984 text:"June 10, 1984, the Army demonstrated Hit-to-kill capability in the Homing Overlay Experiment (HOE)."
  at:09/06/1985 text:"September 6, 1985, the Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser destroyed a ground-based Titan booster during a test."
  at:07/30/1986 text:"July 30, 1986, General Abrahamson directed that SDIO be reorganized."
  at:11/01/1986 text:"November 1986, The formation of the concept for Brilliant Pebbles."
  at:07/01/1987 text:"June–July, 1987, Strategic Defense System Phase I baseline architecture was approved."
  at:09/30/1988 text:"September 30, 1988, The SDI Organization was realigned adding several new positions."
  at:02/01/1989 text:"February 1, 1989, Lt. Gen. George L. Monahan, Jr., became the second director of the SDIO."
  at:08/01/1989 text:"August 1989, Four major studies of the Brilliant Pebbles concept concluded that it was promising and technically feasible."
  at:11/09/1989 text:"November 9, 1989, fall of the Berlin wall and end of the Cold War."
  at:07/10/1990 text:"July 10, 1990, Ambassador Henry F. Cooper became the third director of the SDIO."
  at:01/29/1991 text:"January 29, 1991, George H.W. Bush's State of the Union address refocusing SDI towards GPALS."
  at:12/31/1991 text:"December 26, 1991, the end of the Soviet Union."

  at:05/13/1993 text:"May 13, 1993, SDIO renamed BMDO by Clinton administration."
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