Why did the Soviet Union object to the American Strategic Defense Initiative?

A) The KGB was alsodeveloping a similar system.
B) The system might be able to destroy a handful of Soviet missiles.
C) The Soviet Union had placed a series of spies in the SDI program.
D) The system threatened the safety and well-being of Soviet citizens.

Strategic Defense Initiative

A proposed missile defense system announced by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, intended to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons.

Soviet Missiles

Ballistic missiles developed and deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War, which were central to the nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States.

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, formally known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a federal socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.