Description
This book covers the Reagan administration's original proposal; the main disagreements about strategic and technical feasibility; the effects of Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) on relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union; and the effects of SDI on relations between the U.S. and its allies.
Table of Contents
Preface -- Introduction: Strategic Defense, Nuclear Deterrence, and Arms Control -- The Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative -- Address to the Nation on the Strategic Defense Initiative -- Ballistic Missile Defenses and U.S. National Security -- On the Road to a More Stable Peace -- Statement to Congress -- Strategic Feasibility -- BMD and Strategic Instability -- The President's Choice: Star Wars or Arms Control -- The Case for Strategic Defense: An Option for a World Disarmed -- A Case for Strategic Defense -- Technical Feasibility -- The SDI: A Technical Appraisal -- Is SDI Technically Feasible? -- The Strategic Defense Initiative: Defensive Technologies Study -- SDI: The Last, Best Hope -- SDI and U.S.-Soviet Relations -- Nuclear Disarmament by the Year 2000 -- The Strategic Defense Initiative and the Soviet Union -- Report to Congress After Geneva Summit -- The Nuclear and Space Arms Talks: Where We Are After the Summit -- SDI and U.S.-Allied Relations -- Strategic Defense and the Western Alliance -- Defence and Security in the Nuclear Age -- Statement to the Bundestag -- Press Conference
