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| Other authors / contributors: | Goodman, Melvin A. (Melvin Allan), 1938-
Marsh, Gerald E., 1939-
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| ISBN: | 0313016151
9780313016158
027597183X
9780275971830
1280315512
9781280315510
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Legacy 2017
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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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| Other form: | Print version: Eisendrath, Craig R. Phantom defense. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, ©2001 027597183X
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