The Search for Security in Space / / Kenneth N. Luongo; ed. by W. Thomas Wander.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Luongo, Kenneth N.,
• MitwirkendeR: Brown, Harold,; Drell, Sidney D.,; Farley, Philip J.,; Guertner, Gary L.,; Holloway, David,; Nunn, Sam,; Stares, Paul B.,; Stevens, Sayre,; Wander, W. Thomas,
• HerausgeberIn: Wander, W. Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 9 tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part I. U.S. and Soviet Space Weapon Programs --; 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 --; 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 --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501737091; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501737091
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kenneth N. Luongo; ed. by W. Thomas Wander.

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.