The Strategic Defense Initiative

by Edward Reiss
The Strategic Defense Initiative
Author: Edward Reiss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 1992-07-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521410975
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This history of the Strategic Defense Initiative ranges across politics, economics, strategic studies and international relations, and provides the latest research into the SDI interest groups, the distribution of contracts, and the politics of influence. It discusses the wider contexts of 'Star Wars', such as alliance management, marketing, and domestic politics, and its military spin-offs, especially for anti-satellite (ASAT) and 'space control' programmes. The author tests the theoretical literature on the dynamics of the arms race by using SDI as a case study, and draws evidence from sources such as congressional hearings, interviews, the trade press, restricted briefing papers, and documents obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act. The book follows the fortunes of strategic defence into the changed global conditions of the 1990s, following the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the Gulf War, and President Bush's announcement of a refocused SDI, the Global Protection Against Limited Strikes (GPALS).

The Strategic Defence Initiative

by Mira Duric
The Strategic Defence Initiative
Author: Mira Duric
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351881507
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Central to US foreign policy, the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) was launched by Ronald Reagan in 1983. While the Reagan administration failed to deploy the SDI system, it featured prominently in the relationship between the US and the Soviet Union. This insightful book examines SDI and the Reagan administration through an evaluation of the role of the SDI in the end of the Cold War. Presenting an extensive range of primary and secondary material together with interviews, the book will be welcomed by academics and upper level students interested in politics and history.

The Strategic Defense Initiative

by United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)
The Strategic Defense Initiative
Author: United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 8
Release: 1985
Genre: Military art and science
ISBN:
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Star Wars

by Robert Bowman
Star Wars
Author: Robert Bowman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1986
Genre: History
ISBN:
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This volume reveals the plain facts about Star Wars as seen by Bowman, who in his 22-year Air Force career was director of the Advanced Space Programs Development and controlled the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency studies. These studies covered high-energy laser development, advanced surveillance spacecraft, advanced space vehicle subsystems, and other Star Wars-related research. Bowman begins with an overview of the development of missile systems and their impact on international security and the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty. He also covers the strategic and technical implications of anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons and the ballistic missile defense system. Though the proponents of the Star Wars argue that it is a purely defensive system and a moral alternative to Mutual Assured Destruction, the author believes that it would be a Death Star system, destroying Earth and its inhabitants. ISBN 0-87477-390-3: $14.95.

Symbolic Defense

by Edward Tabor Linenthal
Symbolic Defense
Author: Edward Tabor Linenthal
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780252016196
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Since the public unveiling of SDI in 1983, discussion has focused on the technical and strategic aspects of the project. This book takes a new look, examining the cultural repercussions of SDI. Illustrated.

A Shield in Space?

by Sanford Lakoff
A Shield in Space?
Author: Sanford Lakoff
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2021-05-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520368134
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This 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.

Way Out There In the Blue

by Frances FitzGerald
Way Out There In the Blue
Author: Frances FitzGerald
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2001-03-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780743200233
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Using the Star Wars missile defense program as a magnifying glass on his presidency, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Frances FitzGerald gives us a wholly original portrait of Ronald Reagan. Drawing on extensive research, FitzGerald shows how Reagan managed to get billions in funding for a program that was technologically impossible by exploiting the fears of the American public. The Reagan who emerges from FitzGerald's book was a gifted politician with a deep understanding of the national psyche, and an executive almost totally disengaged from the policies of his administration. Both appalling and funny, Way Out There in the Blue is the most penetrating study of Reagan's presidency to date.

Seize the High Ground

by James A. Walker
Seize the High Ground
Author: James A. Walker
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN:
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"[Seize the high ground is a] narrative history of the Army's aerospace experience from the 1950s to the present. The focus is on ballistic missile defense, from the early NIKE-HERCULES missile program through the SAFEGUARD acquisition site allowed by the 1972 ABM Treaty to the more advanced 'Star Wars' concepts studies toward the end of the century. [What is] covered is not only the technological response to the threat but the organizational and tactical development of the commands and units responsible for the defense mission"--CMH website.