A Shield in Space? Technology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative : How the Reagan Administration Set Out to Make Nuclear Weapons Impotent and Obsolete and Succumbed to the Fallacy of the Last Move.
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Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2021.
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Colección: | California Studies on Global Conflict and Cooperation Series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- CHAPTER 1. Why SDI?
- CHAPTER 2. The Elusive Quest for Strategic Defenses
- CHAPTER 3. Measure for Measure
- CHAPTER 4. A Defense Transition?
- CHAPTER 5. ""Don't Ask the Soviets. Tell Them
- CHAPTER 6. A ""Maginot Line of the Twenty-first Century""?
- CHAPTER 7. Deploy or Perish
- CHAPTER 8. Calculating the Costs and Benefits
- CHAPTER 9. Security Through Technology
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- INDEX