The Star Wars Controversy (eBook)

An International Security Reader

Steven E. Miller, Stephen Van Evera (Herausgeber)

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2014
352 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-5816-3 (ISBN)

Infos

These essays from the journal International Security assess the technical feasibility and the strategic desirability of defense against ballistic missiles.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.7.2014
• Reihe/Serie: International Security Readers
• Reihe/Serie: International Security Readers
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System • Aftermath of World War II • Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War • Anti-Ballistic Missile • Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty • Anti-satellite weapon • arms control • assured destruction • Balance of terror • ballistic missile • Ballistic missile submarine • Boost phase • Capability (systems engineering) • Chevaline • civil defense • counterforce • countermeasure • Countervalue • cruise missile • cuban missile crisis • Detonation • Directed-energy weapon • Disarmament • First Order (Star Wars) • Fog of war • foreign policy • Fractional Orbital Bombardment System • Herman Kahn • High-altitude nuclear explosion • Intercontinental Ballistic Missile • Intermediate-range ballistic missile • International crisis • Kinetic Energy Interceptor • Medium-range ballistic missile • military history • MIM-14 Nike Hercules • missile • Missile Defense • Missile Guidance • Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle • Mutual Assured Destruction • NATO targets • Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents • Nuclear Arms Race • Nuclear blackmail • Nuclear disarmament • Nuclear explosion • Nuclear explosive • nuclear proliferation • nuclear strategy • Nuclear triad • Nuclear warfare • nuclear weapon • Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom • Nuclear weapons delivery • Nuclear Winter • Particle-beam weapon • Penetration aid • Pershing II • Politique • Power projection • Pre-emptive nuclear strike • Preemptive war • preventive war • Probability • Rocket engine • S-300 (missile) • second strike • security dilemma • Short-range ballistic missile • Soviet Military Power • Soviet Union • Space-based solar power • spacecraft • Space mirror (geoengineering) • Space transportation system • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks • Strategic bomber • Strategic Defense Initiative • Strategic goal (military) • Strategic Missile Troops • Submarine-launched ballistic missile • Superiority (short story) • Supersynchronous orbit • Tactical ballistic missile • Tactical nuclear weapon • Technology • Threshold Test Ban Treaty • Treaty • UGM-27 Polaris • Uncertainty • United States national missile defense • vulnerability • war • warfare • warhead • Warning System • War Termination • weapon of mass destruction • X-ray laser
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-5816-X / 140085816X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-5816-3 / 9781400858163