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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lakoff, Sanford
Other Authors: York, Herbert F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2021.
Series:California Studies on Global Conflict and Cooperation Series.
Subjects:
Strategic Defense Initiative.
Nuclear arms control.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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