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Strategic Defense Initiative: Folly Or Future? - Softcover

Haley, P. Edward; Merritt, Jack; Needler, Martin C

 
9780367304300: Strategic Defense Initiative: Folly Or Future?
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367304309 ISBN 13: 9780367304300
Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

Intended for use as a text in courses on national security, arms control, and peace studies, this collection of statements by world leaders and eminent scholars offers an accurate and comprehensive guide through the maze of claims and criticisms about "Star Wars," the sensationally controversial effort of the Reagan administration to reorient U.S. nuclear strategy to strategic defense. The contents include a thorough introduction by the editors and individual chapters outlining the strategic defense initiative as originally conceived and subsequently modified by the Reagan administration; the arguments for and against the plan's strategic and technical feasibility; and assessments of the harmful and constructive effects of strategic defense on U.S.-Soviet and U.S.-allied relations.

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About the Author

"P. Edward Haley is director of the Keck Center for International Strategic Studies and chairman of the International Relations Committee, Claremont McKenna College. He has worked on the staffs of members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and was an international affairs Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Jack Merritt is professor emeritus of physics, Claremont McKenna College. Prior to coming to Claremont, he served as an administrative officer at the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the National Science Policy Organization of the Bureau of Budget."

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367304309
ISBN 13 
9780367304300
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
204