TY  - BOOK
AU  - Luongo,Kenneth N.
AU  - Brown,Harold
AU  - Drell,Sidney D.
AU  - Farley,Philip J.
AU  - Guertner,Gary L.
AU  - Holloway,David
AU  - Nunn,Sam
AU  - Stares,Paul B.
AU  - Stevens,Sayre
AU  - Wander,W.Thomas
TI  - The Search for Security in Space
SN  - 9781501737091
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - General Science
KW  - Security Studies
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part I. U.S. and Soviet Space Weapon Programs --; Introduction --; 1. U.S. and Soviet Military Space Programs: A Comparative Assessment --; 2. The Threat to Space Systems --; 3. The Ballistic Missile Defense Debate. The Office of Technology Assessment --; 4. The President's Strategic Defense Initiative --; 5. The Soviet BMD Program --; Part II. Evaluating SDI Technology Part II. Evaluating SD1 Technology --; Introduction --; 6. SDI: Goals and Technical Objectives. The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization --; 7. The SDI Technical Program. The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization --; 8. What Is "Proof"? --; 9. The Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative: A Technical Appraisal --; 10. Is SDI Technically Feasible? --; Part III. Space Weapon Arms Control --; Introduction --; 11. U.S. Space Arms Control Policy. U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency --; 12. The Reduction of Nuclear Arms and the Preventing of an Arms Race in Space. USSR Institute for World Economy and International Relations --; 13. The ABM Treaty. Office of the U.S. Department of State Legal Adviser --; 14. Interpretation of the ABM Treaty --; Part IV. Appendixes --; 1. Texts of the 1972 ABM Treaty, Its Agreed Interpretations, and Its 1976 Protocol --; 2. Treaties Containing Provisions Relevant to Outer Space with the Appropriate Articles --; 3. Acronyms --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This book brings together the best work on space security by well-known arms control analysts, along with significant recent government documents. Offering a broad and judicious treatment of the space weapons controversy, the articles selected set forth the positions of the United States and Soviet governments, balanced by the often dissenting analyses of outside critics
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501737091
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501737091
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