Shooting Down a "Star": Program 437, the US Nuclear ASAT System and Present-Day Copycat Killers: CADRE Paper No. 6

by Clayton K.S. Chun

Book Overview

Space-based systems of various kinds had proven their worth well before the end of the Cold War. But it was only during the Persian Gulf War that the enormous multiplier effect of space systems on combat operations became widely recognized. In the immediate aftermath of that conflict, then Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Merrill A. McPeak went so far as to describe Operation Desert Storm as America's "first space war." Military exploitation of space...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479288136
• ISBN13: 9781479288137
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 100 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"