joe biden. an imbecile long before his official status today. reagan stood fast in the face of that pressure refused to back office missile defense initiative. democrats continued relentlessly to try to sabotage it. cq almanac 1985. arms control advocates failed in repeated efforts in 1985 to impose substantial restraints on reagan's antimissile research program the strategic defense initiative which critics call star wars. anti- missile defenses including razor armed space satellites. they were trying different techniques. and they finally found one. that they relied on. the arms controllers were again set the piece were against it. the democrat party it was uniformly against it. joe biden was one of the leading