Technology, Strategy, And Politics Of Sdi
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ABM System
ABM Treaty
arms race stability
Author_Stephen J Cimbala
ballistic missile defense
ballistic missile defense system
BMD Deployment
BMD System
Boost Phase Intercept
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Defensive Program
deterrence theory
Directed Energy Weapons
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extended deterrence
Heavy ICBM
ICBM Force
Launch Vehicles
Limited Nuclear Options
military space systems
Minuteman III
NATO Ally
NATO Europe
NATO European allies
NATO missile defense policy
NATO Target
Penetration Aids
Point Defense
Salt II
SDI Research Program
SDI System
Soviet Military
strategic defense initiative
Strategic Rocket Forces
Survivable Defenses
transatlantic security
U.S. space-based defense system
West Germany
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- ISBN 9780367311933
- Weight: 376g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to develop a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system has both short-range and long-range risks as well as potential benefits. For the most part, however, strategic, technological, and political issues relevant to SDI have been analyzed in isolation from one another. This book provides a more inclusive framework for assessing the possible development and deployment of a BMD system by the United States or the Soviet Union. Contributors discuss the risks for arms race stability, probable reactions of the Soviet Union to any U.S. space-based defense system, and implications for the stability of extended deterrence commitments to NATO European allies. They also evaluate Soviet research and development programs in missile defense that must be considered in any extrapolation of the requirements for U.S. deterrence in the next several decades.
Stephen J. Cimbala is professor of political science at Pennsylvania State University.
