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Ballistic Missile Defense

Ballistic Missile Defense

Carter, Ashton B.
Schwartz, David N.

Paperback

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0815713118
ISBN13: 9780815713111
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: Jan 1 1984
Pages: 470
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Defense against nuclear attack--so natural and seemingly so compelling a goal--has provoked debate for at least twenty years. Ballistic missle defense systems, formerly called antiballistic missile systems, offer the prospect of remedying both superpowers' alarming vulnerability to nuclear weapons by technological rather than political means. But whether ballistic missile defenses can be made to work and whether it is wise to build them remain controversial. The U.S.-Soviet Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty of 1972 restricts testing and deployment of ballistic missile defenses but has not prohibited more than a decade of research and development on both sides. As exotic new proposals are put forward for space-based directed-energy systems, questions about the effectiveness and wisdom of missile defense have again become central to the national debate on defense policy.

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