Star Wars
Subtitle: US Tools of Space Supremacy
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: December 20, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780745321158
Subjects: Defence strategy, planning & research; International relations; Military engineering; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; International Relations - Arms Control; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Political Science / International Security; Astronautics, Military; Ballistic missile defenses; Space warfare; Space weapons; United States
First sentence: Before rocketry had captured the imagination of either civilian scientists or military leaders as a near-term reality for space exploration or warfare, before nuclear weapons had graduated from one-time exemplar of terror to a regular tool of superpower leverage, signals intelligence already had demonstrated its utility to a small, tightly-knit cabal within the victorious allied powers.