SDI: Progress and Challengers
SDI: Progress and Challengers

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Published: 1986

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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.

Advances in Conceptual Modeling – Applications and Challenges
Advances in Conceptual Modeling – Applications and Challenges

Author: Juan Trujillo

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 364216384X

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of workshops, held at the 29th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2010, in Vancouver, Canada, in November 2010. The 31 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on the workshops Semantic and Conceptual Issues in GIS (SeCoGIS); Conceptual Modeling of Life Sciences Applications (CMLSA); Conceptual Modelling of Services (CMS); Active Conceptual Modeling of Learning (ACM-L); Web Information Systems Modeling (WISM); Domain Engineering (DE@ER); and Foundations and Practices of UML (FP-UML).

Contemporary Challenges in Autoimmunity, Volume 1173
Contemporary Challenges in Autoimmunity, Volume 1173

Author: Yehuda Shoenfeld

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-10-05

Total Pages: 901

ISBN-13: 1573317624

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This volume features key presentations from the 6th International Congress of Autoimmunity. The International Congress of Autoimmunity has become established as one of the major meetings in the field of immunology, with presentations covering every aspect of basic research in the hopes of clarifying pathogenesis of autoimmune disease as well as providing information on the latest innovations in biological and other modes of treatment. The goal of this volume is to present cutting edge research that focuses in particular on newer diagnostic tools and newer therapies for human autoimmune disease. NOTE: Annals volumes are available for sale as individual books or as a journal. For information on institutional journal subscriptions, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/nyas. ACADEMY MEMBERS: Please contact the New York Academy of Sciences directly to place your order (www.nyas.org). Members of the New York Academy of Science receive full-text access to the Annals online and discounts on print volumes. Please visit http://www.nyas.org/MemberCenter/Join.aspx for more information about becoming a member.

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.