Countdown to Space War
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1974-20A Satellite
A01=Bhupendra Jasani
A01=Christopher Lee
A01=Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
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Air Force
Anti-Ballistic Missile
Anti-satellite System
arms race
ASAT
ASAT Weapons
Author_Bhupendra Jasani
Author_Christopher Lee
Author_Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
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ballistic missile defence
Beam Weapons
BMD
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=JPSF
Category=JWM
cold war
COP=United Kingdom
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directed energy weapons
Early Warning Satellite
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escalation risk in orbital conflict
FEL
ICBM
Inter-continental Ballistic Missile
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
Language_English
Launch Vehicles
Microwave Radars
military satellite technology
Military Satellites
nuclear deterrence theory
nuclear missile attack
Nuclear Warhead
nuclear weapons
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Photoreconnaissance Satellites
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Reconnaissance Satellite
Ronald Reagan
softlaunch
Soviet ICBM
space war
space-based arms control
spacecraft
Star Wars
strategic defence initiatives
Synthetic Aperture Radar
USA
Violated
X-ray Lasers
Product details
- ISBN 9780367533069
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Sep 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Only two years after Sputnik, weapons were created for attacking spacecraft. These were based on land. But now there is talk of weapons in space-instant-kill beams like lasers. President Reagan has offered a vision of new inventions that could stop nuclear missile attacks. But will they work? Can lasers make nuclear weapons obsolete? Or would they merely be used to wage Stars Wars?
Originally published in 1984, this is mainly the story of the military use of space. It shows how the new technology could trigger nuclear world war. And it looks for a way out...
