The Strategic Defense Initiative, Progress and Challenges
Author: Douglas C. Waller
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 194
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The Strategic Defense Initiative
Author: United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 8
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Strategic Defense Initiative
Author: Edward Reiss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992-07-23
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0521410975
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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).
Strategic Defense Initiative
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and National Security Subcommittee
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 488
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Author: Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (U.S.)
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Shield in Space?
Author: Sanford Lakoff
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 0520328078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 Missile Defense Systems of George W. Bush
Author: Richard Dean Burns
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-09-02
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0313384673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume reviews the debates surrounding the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense systems and their deployment by George W. Bush, allowing readers to assess for themselves the significance of Bush's decisions. The Missile Defense Systems of George W. Bush: A Critical Assessment asks and answers a number of pressing questions about Bush's decision to deploy ground-based missiles. Has the system become reliable? If not, what are the prospects for it to become effective? What have the fiscal costs been? What was the political impact of efforts to expand ABM systems to Europe? This is the only major book that brings together all of the factors—historical and current—to allow readers to assess President Bush's decisions for themselves. Opening with an extensive history of missile defense, the book analyzes Bush's efforts to establish ground-based missiles in Eastern Europe, as well as the impact of his decisions. Both the administration's policies and evaluations and those of critical observers are presented. President Obama's program for missile defense is reviewed as well. A final chapter evaluates the technical progress of the various ABM systems and weighs the political dimensions of the deployment decision and the cost of the undertaking to date.
The Elusive Transformation
Author: Eugene B. Skolnikoff
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1994-08-22
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1400820928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEugene Skolnikoff treats the roles of science and technology across the entire range of relations among nations, including security and economic issues, environmental questions, international economic competitiveness, the spread of weapons technology, the demise of communism, the new content of dependency relations, and the demanding new problems of national and international governance. He shows how the structure and operation of the scientific and technological enterprises have interacted with international affairs to lead to the dramatic evolution of world politics experienced in this century, particularly after World War II.
The Strategic Defense Initiative
Author: Rebecca S. Bjork
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1992-11-03
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0791496783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough an analysis of the language and persuasive strategies used by the Reagan and Bush administrations in selling the SDI program to the Congress and the American public, Bjork takes a fresh approach to the study of U.S. foreign policy. She focuses on the shared meanings and understandings of policy as they are created through sociocultural interaction. Using Kenneth Burke's philosophy and critical method of dramatism as a theoretical framework, she shows how Reagan's SDI program appealed symbolically to a nostalgic sense of American history, replete with powerful images of American innocence and technological ingenuity in the face of difficult obstacles. Bjork concludes that the program has been shielded from criticism, has achieved symbolic and bureaucratic momentum, and serves to reinforce the isolation felt by ordinary American citizens from access to decisions over life and death issues.
