The phantom defense : America's pursuit of the Star Wars illusion

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The phantom defense : America's pursuit of the Star Wars illusion

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America's pursuit of the Star Wars illusion

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Craig Eisendrath, Melvin A. Goodman and Gerald E. Marsh

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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 spectacular failures and call into question the whole program's rationale. Neither the land-based system proposed by the Clinton administration, nor the alternatives proposed by earlier administrations, would ever work--regardless of how much R & D money is channeled into the project. Rather than enhancing national security, these doomed efforts would provoke a new arms race and alienate key allies. The authors apply their extensive insiders' expertise to argue that thoughtful diplomacy is the only real answer to meet America's national security goals

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358.1/74/0973

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UG743

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.E36 2001eb

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non fiction

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