Claiming the Heavens - Hardcover
Offers a comprehensive study of the practical problems, hopes, fears, and politics surrounding the Strategic Defense initiative, examining every aspect of the debate
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The Strategic Defense Initiative, to many, is an impossibly complex and confusing issue. This useful and timely book, an expanded version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning series that ran in the New York Times in March 1985, is an objective survey of Star Wars, in which basic questions are asked and either answered or intelligently speculated upon. How did the program originate? Is it merely a new wrinkle on the old Mutually Assured Destruction policy? Will it stabilize or destabilize world peace? How will it work? What could go wrong? What is the Soviet reaction, and why? Does the program have enough political appeal to survive the departure of President Reagan, its strongest booster? The five authors discuss the impact of Star Wars on arms control and provide a forum for the views of advocates and skeptics alike.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
The Strategic Defense Initiative Star Warshas received tremendous press since President Reagan's 1983 announcement of a plan to make nuclear missiles obsolete. The New York Times generated a Pulitzer Prize-winning series in 1985. This guide is an expanded version of that material. Although there is overlap with five contributors writing several chapters each, the guide provides new insights, documenting Soviet countermeasures and concerns of our European allies. SDI research continues to be exaggerated, and computer software is still a limitation. But the critical question remains: Can a technological fix be applied to a dilemma requiring a political solution? Recommended. Dennis Felbel, Univ. of Manitoba Libs., Winnipeg
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherCrown
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0812916476
- ISBN 13 9780812916478
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages316
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