Strategic Defenses : : Two Reports by the Office of Technology Assessment / / Office of the Technology Assessment.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• VerfasserIn: Office of the Technology Assessment,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 110
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (494 p.)

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 lates...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Foreword
• Contents
• Office of Technology Assessment
• Chapter 1. Executive Summary
• Chapter 2. Introduction
• Chapter 3. Ballistic Missile Defense Then and Now
• Chapter 4. Deterrence, U.S. Nuclear Strategy, and BMD
• Chapter 5. BMD Capabilities and the Strategic Balance
• Chapter 6. Crisis Stability, Arms Race Stability, and Arms Control Issues
• Chapter 7. Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies
• Chapter 8. Feasibility
• Chapter 9. Alternative Future Scenarios
• Chapter 10. Alternative R&D Programs
• Appendixes
• Appendix A. Ballistic Missile Defense and the ABM Treaty
• Appendix B. Texts of the 1972 ABM Treaty, Its Agreed Interpretations, and Its 1976 Protocol
• Appendix C. Effects of BMD Deployment on Existing Arms Control Treaties
• Appendix D. Defense Requirements for Assured Survival
• Appendix E. Defense Capability Levels and U.S. Strategy Choices
• Appendix F. BMD and the Military R&D Budget
• Appendix G. Studies of the High Frontier Global Ballistic Missile Defense I
• Appendix H. Excerpts From Statements on BMD by Reagan Administration Officials
• Appendix I. List of Reagan Administration Statements on BMD
• Appendix J. Articles by Critics of the Strategic Defense Initiative
• Appendix K. Excerpts From Soviet Statements on BMD
• Appendix L. References on Strategic Nuclear Policy
• Appendix M. References on Soviet Strategic Policy
• Appendix N. Glossary of Acronyms and Terms
• Front matter 2
• Foreword
• Glossary of Acronyms and Terms
• Contents
• Chapter 1. Executive Summary
• Chapter 2. Introduction
• Chapter 3. MILSATs, ASATs, and National Security
• Chapter 4. ASAT Capabilities and Countermeasures
• Chapter 5. ASAT Arms Control: History
• Chapter 6. ASAT Arms Control: Options
• Chapter 7. Comparative Evaluation of ASAT Policy Options
• Appendix A. Soviet Draft Treaty on the Prohibition of the Use of Force in Outer Space and From Space Against the Earth