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 / Sanford Lakoff and Herbert F. York.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lakoff, Sanford A., author.

York, Herbert F. (Herbert Frank), author.

Series:

California studies on global conflict and cooperation ; Volume 1.

California Studies on Global Conflict and Cooperation Series ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear arms control.

Strategic Defense Initiative.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1989]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

Contents:

Frontmatter

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-520-32807-8

OCLC:

1149456664