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1 online resource (243 pages) |
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Westview replica edition.
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW OF POLICY ISSUES; Deterrence Stability; Disarmament and Arms Control; The ABM Treaty; Summary; Notes; 2 SPACE-BASED BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE: AN OVERVIEW OF THE TECHNICAL ISSUES; Space-Based BMD Using ""Conventional"" Components; Space-Based Neutral Particle Beam Weapons; Space-Based Laser Weapon Requirements for Ballistic Missile Defense; The Vulnerability of Ballistic Missiles in the Boost Phase and Laser Weapon Countermeasures |
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The Auxiliary Sensor System for a Space-Based Laser BMD: No Small Technical ProblemNew Laser Devices: The Future Hope for Space-Based Laser BMD and the Wavelength Dispute; Space-Based Laser Weapons: What Type of Program Should the U.S. Have?; Summary and Conclusion; Notes; 3 IMPLICATIONS OF ARMS CONTROL AGREEMENTS AND NEGOTIATIONS FOR SPACE-BASED BMD LASERS; Introduction; Implications of the ABM Treaty; The Meaning of ""Development"" in the ABM Treaty; The Meaning of ""ABM Systems Based on Other Physical Principles; The Meaning of ""Space-Based"" in the ABM Treaty |
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Meaning of ""Strategic Ballistic MissileSummary of ABM Treaty Implications; Prospects for the 1982 ABM Treaty Review; Implications of the Outer Space Treaty; Implications or the soviet Proposal to Prohibit New Types of ""Weapons of Mass Destruction; Implications of ASAT Proposals for Space-Based Lasers; The Soviet Draft Treaty Prohibiting Deployment in Space of ""Weapons of Any Kind; Other Possible Limits on ASAT Systems; Summary and Conclusions; Notes; 4 SPACE-BASED LASERS FOR BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE: SOVIET POLICY OPTIONS |
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Possible Soviet Technological Responses to U.S. Space-Based Laser BMDEvaluating the Options; The Decision Time Frame; BMD Policy and Soviet Strategy; The Soviet Approach to Technological Challenge: Case Studies; Conclusions; Notes; 5 SPACE-BASED LASERS AND THE EVOLUTION OF STRATEGIC THOUGHT; Evolution of U.S. Strateqic Doctrine; The Fifties and Sixties: From Massive Retaliation to Flexible Response; McNamara's Definitions of Sufficiency; The Schlesinger Doctrine: Limited Nuclear Options; Harold Brown's Countervailing Strategy: PD-59; Strategic Doctrine in the Reagan Administration |
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SBLs: Present and Future ImplicationsSummary and Conclusions; Notes; 6 THE STRATEGIC NUCLEAR POLICY OF THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION: TRENDS, PROBLEMS, AND THE POTENTIAL RELEVANCE OF SPACE-BASED LASER WEAPONS; Reagan's Inheritance and the Question of Strategy; Space Weaponry and the Policy Debate; Nuclear Policy and Program Trends Under President Reagan; Unfinished Business; The Space-Based Laser Connection; Summary; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Index; About the Contributors |
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Print version record |
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Space warfare.
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Lasers -- Military applications.
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Arms control.
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Ballistic missile defenses -- United States.
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Arms control
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Ballistic missile defenses
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Lasers -- Military applications
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Space warfare
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Laserwaffe
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Weltraum
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429696909 |
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0429696906 |
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9780429716911 |
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0429716915 |
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