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Ballistic Missile Defense (Paperback)
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"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. This study,
jointly sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, examines the strategic,
technological, and political issues raised by ballistic missile
defense. Eight contributors take an analytical approach to their
areas of expertise, which include the relationship of missile
defense to nuclear strategy, the nature and potential applications
of current and future technologies, the views on missile defense in
the Soviet Union and among the smaller nuclear powers, the meaning
of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty for today's technology, and
the present role and historical legacy of ballistic missile defense
in the context of East-West relations. The volume editors give a
comprehensive introduction to this wide range of subjects and an
assessment of future prospects. In the final chapter, nine
knowledgeable observers offer their varied personal views on the
ballistic missile defense question. "
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