He may be Reagan to some, but for his "magic shield" nonsense the senile old coot will be forever RayGun to me. Detonating nuclear weapons in space to generate gamma ray laser beams, oh sure, why not. It gave me nostalgia for the BOMARC idea of detonating nuclear weapons over Canada to take out Russian bombers. How can we say no?

Five POTUSAs later they still can't take out an ICBM when they know the launch time and trajectory in advance. MIRVS are a whole 'nother headache.