Weapons in space
By: edited by Franklin A. Long, Donald Hafner, and Jeffrey Boutwell
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Norton
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780393019896; 9780393955279
Subjects: Atomstrategie; Weltraumwaffe; Ballistic missile defenses; NATO; Sicherheitspolitik; Strategische Verteidigungsinitiative; Raketenabwehr; Antisatellitenwaffe; Strategic Defense Initiative; Waffentechnik; Space weapons
Description: Noted experts in security policy and military technology explore the ramifications of the development and use of advanced space weaponry.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Nuclear deterrence and the military uses of space  -- Herbert F. York; title: Ballistic missle defense : concepts and history  -- Alexander Flax; title: BMD technologies and concepts in the 1980s  -- Hans A. Bethe, Jeffrey Boutwell, Richard L. Garwin; title: Strategic Defense Initiative  -- Gerold Yonas; title: Assessing the President's vision : the Fletcher, Miller, & Hoffman Panels --; title: Strategic defense : a systems perspective  -- Charles A. Zraket; title: U.S. and Soviet military space programs : a comparative assessment  -- Paul Stares; title: Anti-satellite weapons : weighing the risks  -- Kurt Gottfried & Richard Ned Lebow; title: Relationship of ASAT and BMD systems  -- Ashton B. Carter; title: Space weapons : the legal context  -- Abram Chayes, Antonia Handler Chayesk, Eliot Spitzer; title: Case for ballistic missile defense  -- John C. Toomay; title: BMD and strategic instability  -- George Rathjens & Jack Ruina; title: Strategic defense initiative and the Soviet Union  -- David Holloway; title: Strategic defense and the Western alliance  -- Christoph Bertram; title: The SDI and U.S. security -- -- Appendix A :; title: New BMD technologies  -- Hans A. Bethe & Richard L. Garwin -- Appendix B : Relevant documents :; title: President Reagan's address to the nation.; title: 1972 ABM Treaty.