Tonight, . . . I'm taking an important first step. I am directing a comprehensive and intensive effort to define a long-term research and development program to begin to achieve our ultimate goal of eliminating the threat posed by strategic nuclear missiles. This could pave the way for arms control measures to eliminate the weapons themselves. We seek neither military superiority nor political advantage. Our only purpose – one all people share – is to search for ways to reduce the danger of nuclear war.

–Ronald Reagan
1983

According to Reagan, what could result from the implementation of "Star Wars”?

It could ramp up the arms race.
It could end the risk of a missile attack.
It could raise the threat of a nuclear war.
It could end communist control of the East.