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Defending America : the case for limited national missile defense /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution Press,
2002, ©2001.
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| Edición: | 1st softcover ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ch. 1. Defending America. Déjà vu all over again
- Is the third time a charm?
- Why not prevention, preemption, and deterrence?
- Sensible defense means limited defense
- A modest proposal
- ch. 2. Missile Defense: concepts and systems
- Basic elements of ballistic missiles
- The trajectory of a ballistic missile
- Basic types of missile defenses
- Types of theater missile defenses
- Types of national missile defense
- Decoys and other countermeasures
- ch. 3. The threat. A growing ballistic missile threat?
- Russia
- China
- North Korea, Iran, and Iraq
- Other emerging ballistic missile powers
- Alternative threats
- The consequences of a missile attack
- ch. 4. Missile defense programs and architectures. Midcourse defense: the Clinton Administration program
- Larger midcourse defenses
- Boost-phase defenses
- Layered and space-based systems
- Conclusion
- ch. 5. The international politics of missile defense
- Russia
- China
- America's friends and allies
- South Asia
- No more disarmament?
- ch. 6. Missile defense and American security. A limited, two-tier national missile defense against "rogue" regimes
- Selling a limited, two-tier defense abroad
- Selling a limited, two-tier defense at home
- Appendixes. A. Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and related documents
- B. Excerpts from the DCI National Intelligence Estimate
- C. Excerpts from the 1998 Rumsfeld Commission Report
- D. Excerpts from the 1999 National Intelligence Review
- Notes
- Index.