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ABM : an evaluation of the decision to deploy an antiballistic missile system / editors Abram Chayes, Jerome B. Wiesner ; introduction by Edward M. Kennedy, contributors by Hans A. Bethe [and others].
Format
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Language
English
Εdition
[First edition].
Published/Created
New York : Harper & Row, [1969]
©1964
Description
xxii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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ReCAP - Remote Storage
UG633 .C493 1969
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Subject(s)
Air defenses
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United States
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Antimissile missiles
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United States
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Editor
Chayes, Abram, 1922-2000
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Chayes, Abram, 1922-2000
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Wiesner, Jerome B. (Jerome Bert), 1915-1994
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Wiesner, Jerome B. (Jerome Bert), 1915-1994
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$e writer of introduction
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009
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Writer of introduction
Kennedy, Edward M. (Edward Moore), 1932-2009
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Contributor
Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
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Bethe, Hans A. (Hans Albrecht), 1906-2005
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Series
Signet broadside ; 7.
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A Signet broadside ; 7
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Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents
I. ABM deployment: what's wrong with it? An overview / by Abram Chayes [and others]
II. Minuteman defense: will it help? Defense of the deterrent / by Carl Kaysen ; Some first-strike scenarios / by Jerome B. Wiesner ; What does Safeguard safeguard? / by Steven Weinberg ; Command and control / by Bill D. Moyers.
III. Safeguard system: will it work? ABM reliability / by Leonard S. Rodberg ; Underestimates and overexpectations / assembled by J.C.R. Licklider ; Countermeasures to ABM systems / by Hans A. Bethe ; The problem of momentum / by Adam Yarmolinsky.
IV. Strategic balance: will it be upset? The effect of ABM on U.S.-Soviet relations / by Marshall D. Shulman ; The Chinese nuclear threat / by Allen S. Whiting ; Asia and the ABM / by Allen S. Whiting ; The ABM and Western Europe / by Theodore C. Sorensen.
V. Arms control: will it be set back? The ABM and arms control / by Bernard T. Feld ; Can the Communists deceive us? / by Jeremy J. Stone ; ABM and non-proliferation / by Mason Willrich ; The attitude of the world community toward the ABM / by Arthur J. Goldberg.
VI. Appendix. Glossary ; Chronology ; Basic documents in the debate ; Some effects of nuclear weapons ; Technical notes.
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A.B.M. : an evaluation of the decision to deploy an antiballistic missile system
LCCN
70088556
OCLC
13893
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