Ballistic Missile Defense

by Ashton B. Carter and David N. Schwartz

Book Overview

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Defense against nuclear attack--so natural and seemingly so compelling a goal--has provoked debate for at least twenty years. Ballistic missle defense systems, formerly called antiballistic missile systems, offer the prospect of remedying both superpowers' alarming vulnerability to nuclear weapons by technological rather than political means. But whether ballistic missile defenses can be made to work and whether it is wise to build them remain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815713118
• ISBN13: 9780815713111
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 470 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"