Contributor
Guerrier, Steven W.
Imprint:Boulder : Westview Press, 1987.
Descriptionxvi, 358 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:PART ONE: GENERAL BACKGROUND: 1. Looking back: strategic defense and US national security / Steven W. Guerrier -- 2. SDI: a personal vision / James A. Abrahamson -- The case against SDI / Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr. -- 4. SDI: why it is important / Edward Teller -- 5. The SDI debate: a critic's perspective / Peter A. Clausen -- THE IMPACT OF SDI ON ARMS CONTROL AND SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS: 6. SDI's impact on US-Soviet relations / Gregory M. Suchan -- 7. Five fallacies of SDI / Jack Mendelsohn -- 8. The Soviet Union's view of SDI / Sergei Kislyak -- THE TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY OF SDI: 9. The technical feasibility of SDI / Louis Marquet -- 10. The technical (in)feasibility of SDI / George W. Rathjens -- 11. Why SDI can and must be done / Louis Marquet -- THE IMPACT OF SDI ON STRATEGIC DOCTRINE: 12. Strategic defenses and future US defense strategy / Steven A. Maaranen -- 13. SDI and US nuclear doctrine / Barry M. Blechman -- THE ALLIED RESPONSE TO SDI: 14. SDI: a European view / Pierre M. Gallois -- 15. SDI and the European defense debate / Jacquelyn K. Davis -- 16. West Germany and SDI / Wayne C. Thompson -- 17. Canada and the future of strategic defense / Joel J. Sokolsky, Joseph T. Jockel -- 18. The Pros and Cons of strategic defense: discussions at the Virginia Military Institute -- PART TWO: US GOVERNMENT STATEMENTS: 19. Address on the Strategic Defense Initiative (March 23, 1983) / Ronald Reagan -- 20. SID, arms control, and stability: toward a new synthesise (June 3, 1986) / Paul H. Nitze -- 21. SDI: progress and promise (August 6, 1986) / Ronald Reagan -- 22. Reykjavik Summit: the American view (October 13 and 14, 1986) / Ronald Reagan -- 23. Department of Defense news briefing following the Reykjavik Summit (October 14, 1986) / Richard N. Perle -- STATEMENTS BY ALLIED GOVERNMENTS: 24. Defense and security in a nuclear age: the British view (March 15, 1985) / Geoffrey Howe -- 25. Britain and the Strategic Defense Initiative (December 10, 1985) / Michael Heseltine -- 26. Press conference on the Strategic Defense Initiative (September 7, 1985) / Brian Mulroney -- SOVIET STATEMENTS: Reykjavik Summit: the Soviet view (October 12 and 14, 1986) / Mikhail Gorbachev -- 28. Against the nuclear threat; space-strike arms and international security / Committee of Soviet Scientists for Peace -- CRITICAL STATEMENTS BY AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: 29. A boycott of SDI research / the National Pledge of Non-Participation -- 30. Appeal by American scientists to ban space weapons (May 1986) / Union of Concerned Scientists -- 31. The anti-ballistic missile treaty (1972)
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