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 MoveThis 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
Why SDI? | 1 |
A Defense Transition? | 132 |
A Maginot Line of the Twentyfirst Century? | 217 |
SDI and Domestic Politics | 252 |
Calculating the Costs and Benefits | 291 |
Notes | 357 |
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