Word: superhawk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea had been planted in Reagan's mind by his friend and frequent adviser Edward Teller, the Hungarian-born superhawk, often described as the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose bold and controversial ideas have occasionally led some of his fellow physicists to moan, "E.T., go home." Teller's brainstorm became Reagan's dream, and the dream became national policy. In a speech in March 1983, the President asked, "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that . . . we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that...