SDI: Progress and Challengers
SDI: Progress and Challengers

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Published: 1986

Total Pages: 0

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Since March, 1983, when the President set forth his vision of a space-based defense, which, in his own words, would set us free from the prison of nuclear weapons' the United States has embarked on the most challenging, controversial and visionary defense program in its history. This staff study was conducted at the request of Senator Proxmire, Senator Chiles and Senator Johnston as the Strategic Defense Initiative nears its third anniversary. The report attempts to provide some perspective on the progress achieved to date in SDI and the challenges that lie ahead.

The Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative

Author: Edward Reiss

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-07-23

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0521410975

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This history of the Strategic Defense Initiative ranges across politics, economics, strategic studies and international relations, and provides the latest research into the SDI interest groups, the distribution of contracts, and the politics of influence. It discusses the wider contexts of 'Star Wars', such as alliance management, marketing, and domestic politics, and its military spin-offs, especially for anti-satellite (ASAT) and 'space control' programmes. The author tests the theoretical literature on the dynamics of the arms race by using SDI as a case study, and draws evidence from sources such as congressional hearings, interviews, the trade press, restricted briefing papers, and documents obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act. The book follows the fortunes of strategic defence into the changed global conditions of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the Gulf War, and President Bush's announcement of a refocused SDI, the Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS).

The Conquest Of War
The Conquest Of War

Author: Harry B Hollins

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-23

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1000315622

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This book explores alternative systems and strategies for global security by which the conflicts between nations can be carried on, and ultimately resolved, without recourse to war, examining system changes some of which may take many years to enact.

Space 2000
Space 2000

Author: Harry L. Shipman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-11-22

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1489960546

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A Shield in Space?
A Shield in Space?

Author: Sanford Lakoff

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-04-28

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0520328078

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

The Nuclear Challenge
The Nuclear Challenge

Author: Christoph Bluth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-16

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1351760718

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This title was first piblished in 2000: Christoph Bluth provides a comprehensive and timely analysis of strategic nuclear arms policy in the United States and Russia and examines the collaborative efforts to reduce nuclear weapons through arms control and render nuclear weapons and fissile materials in Russia secure. He concludes that the end of the Cold War has created new and unprecedented dangers and that these dangers require a greater political will and cooperation which have so far been lacking.