The phantom defense : America's pursuit of the Star Wars illusion / Craig Eisendrath, Melvin A. Goodman and Gerald E. Marsh.
In the past four decades, the United States has spent $85 billion pursuing the fantasy of an effective missile defense system to shield our nation against the threat of a nuclear attack. Recent public tests, while less exotic than some of the original "Star Wars" proposals, were spectacula...
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Deja Vu All Over Again: A Short History of "Star Wars"
- Ch. 2. Anti-Missile Defense and the Political Maze
- Ch. 3. Two views of the World
- Ch. 4. The Exaggerated Threat of Ballistic Missiles
- Ch. 5. Why National Missile Defense Won't Work
- Ch. 6. Other Proposed National Missile Defense Systems
- Ch. 7. Geopolitical Implications of National Missile Defense
- Ch. 8. Arms Control and Policy Alternatives
- App. 1. Countermeasures
- App. 2. Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
- App. 3. The Center for International Policy.