Strategic Defense Initiative

Strategic Defense Initiative
Author: P. Edward Haley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2019-07-19
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000313212

This book covers the Reagan administration's original proposal; the main disagreements about strategic and technical feasibility; the effects of Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) on relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; and the effects of SDI on relations between the U.S. and its allies.

Technology, Strategy, And Arms Control

Technology, Strategy, And Arms Control
Author: Wolfram F Hanrieder
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2019-06-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000314278

Focusing on the most urgent issues of arms control, this collection of essays discusses the East-West military balance, the nature of U.S.-Soviet relations, the political dynamics of developments in weapons technology, the problems that conflicting national security policies pose for the management of the Western alliance, the influence of U.S. dom

Strategic Defenses

Strategic Defenses
Author: Office of the Technology Assessment
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1400855098

To contribute to the worldwide debate on President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, here are two important studies, Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies and Anti-Satellite Weapons, Countermeasures. and Arms Control. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Conflict And Arms Control

Conflict And Arms Control
Author: Paul Viotti
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2019-03-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429721722

Management of superpower relations and, in particular, arms control continue to be among the most pressing issues on the international agenda. In a world without central governance, states face a security dilemma made critical by the presence of weapons of mass destruction. Contributors to this volume address a broad range of concerns in arms contr