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This book focuses the public debate on fundamental political
problem by defining three approaches to arms control. The three
approaches are (l) extend or modify the SALT II Treaty; (2)
restructure the present or planned nuclear forces; and (3)
establish overall equivalence.
Harold Brown served as U.S. secretary of defense when the Soviet
Union posed an existential threat with superior conventional force
capability and a daunting nuclear weapons arsenal. No one could
have been better suited to deter the Soviets during that most
dangerous period in the Cold War. A physicist, Brown had previously
led Livermore Laboratory and its development of the Polaris missile
warhead. By age 33 he was director of Defense Research and
Engineering, and he later served as secretary of the U.S. Air Force
early in the Vietnam War. In the Carter administration, Brown
reinvigorated the NATO alliance, promoted AWACs, increased U.S.
conventional force capabilities, and developed a new generation of
nuclear weapons and delivery systems. As a senior negotiator of
SALT II, he also helped set their limits. Brown was the first
American secretary of defense to visit China; as principal
interlocutor he forged military-to-military relations. During his
tenure, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan; the Iranian revolution
resulted in the capture of American hostages; President Carter
achieved the Camp David Peace Accords; and the Panama Canal
Treaties that still protect U.S. interests were rewritten. Brown's
role in each was integral. Star Spangled Security provides lessons
from the past to inform the future: from Afghanistan to Iran's
pursuit of nuclear weapons; from international alliances and
interests the U.S. needs to consider in a changing world to
specific ideas for jumpstarting technological innovation that could
boost American security and our economy today. Based on his twelve
years of top-tier government service and nearly fifty more as a
president of Caltech, a board member of a dozen corporations, the
chair of recent, comprehensive studies of Chinese military
capability, U.S. Intelligence, and technological innovation, and as
the past chair and a current member of the Defense Policy Board
that advises sitting secretaries of defense, Brown offers wise
counsel to any American voter as well as to aspiring leaders.
This book focuses the public debate on fundamental political
problem by defining three approaches to arms control. The three
approaches are (l) extend or modify the SALT II Treaty; (2)
restructure the present or planned nuclear forces; and (3)
establish overall equivalence.
In Two Volumes. Being The Substance Of A Course Of Lectures
Delivered To Candidates For Orders At St. David's College,
Lampeter.
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