The ABM Treaty: To Defend Or Not to Defend?Oxford University Press, 1987 - 219 pages An examination of the issues in the current debate on the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, by an international team of auhors chosen for their expertise in the field. |
Table des matières
The challenge to the ABM Treaty Walther Stützle Bhupendra Jasani and Regina Cowen I Introduction | 3 |
The strategic relationship | 4 |
The Reagan challenge | 6 |
The Soviet challenge | 13 |
Future arms control | 16 |
The ABM Treaty Review Conference | 23 |
Notes and references | 25 |
Background to the current debate | 27 |
Notes and references | 61 |
view of the Soviet negotiator Vladimir Semenov I Achievement of strategic parity | 62 |
The Treatylegal viewpoint | 63 |
Implications for international security | 69 |
Notes and references | 72 |
Current US and Soviet ballistic missile defence programmes | 73 |
Soviet research and development of directedenergy weapons Simon Kassell I Introduction | 75 |
The context of Soviet directedenergy development | 76 |
A historical perspective John W Finney I The neverending debate | 29 |
McNamaras case for and against an ABM system | 31 |
ABMs become a nationwide issue | 34 |
From population defence to point defenceNixon and the Soviet threat | 35 |
Safeguard faces a technical challenge | 38 |
ABMs as a bargaining chip | 39 |
The interpretation issue what did the Senate believe it was approving? | 41 |
Epilogue | 43 |
Notes and references | 44 |
view of the US negotiator Gerard C Smith I Introduction | 45 |
the basic commitment | 46 |
permitted deployments | 47 |
test ranges | 49 |
The 1985 unilateral US reinterpretation | 50 |
Exotic technologies under the traditional interpretation | 52 |
nonABM systems and components | 53 |
Testing in an ABM mode | 54 |
Radar restraints | 55 |
vii | 57 |
nontransfer | 58 |
boilerplate | 59 |
duration and withdrawal | 60 |
Pulsedpower technology | 77 |
Electron beams | 80 |
Neutral particle beams | 82 |
The electromagnetic energy beams | 83 |
Conclusions | 85 |
Notes and references | 88 |
Technologies of ballistic missile defence Thomas H Johnson I Introduction | 91 |
Conclusion | 101 |
Notes and references | 102 |
ABM Treaty issuesUS and Soviet views on | 103 |
Reinterpretation begins | 110 |
Notes and references | 118 |
Notes and references | 132 |
Ballistic missile defences into the next century | 139 |
Architecture study structure | 146 |
Notes and references | 153 |
Tactical missile defence | 154 |
Notes and references | 172 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
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