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ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Strategic Defense Initiative examines developments in the technologies currently being researched under SDI. The OTA does not repeat the work of its earlier reports but gives special attention to filling in gaps in those reports and to describing technical progress made in the intervening period. The report also presents information on the prospects for functional survival against preemptive attack of alternative ballistic missile defense system architectures now being considered under the SDI. Finally, it analyzes the feasibility of developing reliable software to perform the battle management tasks required by such system architectures.
SDI
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Strategic Defense Initiative examines developments in the technologies currently being researched under SDI. The OTA does not repeat the work of its earlier reports but gives special attention to filling in gaps in those reports and to describing technical progress made in the intervening period. The report also presents information on the prospects for functional survival against preemptive attack of alternative ballistic missile defense system architectures now being considered under the SDI. Finally, it analyzes the feasibility of developing reliable software to perform the battle management tasks required by such system architectures.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Strategic Defense Initiative examines developments in the technologies currently being researched under SDI. The OTA does not repeat the work of its earlier reports but gives special attention to filling in gaps in those reports and to describing technical progress made in the intervening period. The report also presents information on the prospects for functional survival against preemptive attack of alternative ballistic missile defense system architectures now being considered under the SDI. Finally, it analyzes the feasibility of developing reliable software to perform the battle management tasks required by such system architectures.
SDI
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ISBN: 9780691022703
Category : Ballistic missile defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780691022703
Category : Ballistic missile defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Strategic Defences in the 1990's
Author: Ivo H. Daalder
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349117927
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Examines the value of deploying strategic missile defences to counter the threat of nuclear accidents. It concludes that the deployment of strategic defences in the 1990s will not be strategically desirable, technically feasible, or economically affordable.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349117927
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Examines the value of deploying strategic missile defences to counter the threat of nuclear accidents. It concludes that the deployment of strategic defences in the 1990s will not be strategically desirable, technically feasible, or economically affordable.
Space
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Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
OTA Publications
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Economic policy
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic policy
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
How the Cold War Ended
Author: John Prados
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597976121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Examines the debates surrounding the end of the Cold War.
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1597976121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Examines the debates surrounding the end of the Cold War.
Legislative branch appropriations for 1990
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Budget
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
Book Description
Distorting Defense
Author: Stephen P. Aubin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313388571
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Using journalists' own standards as the measure, an exhaustive analysis of nearly 3000 network news reports from the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations reveals that the networks may do more to misinform than inform on a whole range of complex issues related to national defense. This study paints a disturbing picture of the inadequate coverage ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News provide to millions of viewers each night. Aubin concludes that network coverage of defense issues was too often tainted by preconceived attitudes and lapses in journalistic standards. While as much as twenty-five cents of every dollar went to the defense budget during some of the periods reviewed, the networks hardly covered the key issues surrounding the Reagan defense buildup or the dramatic cuts that followed the end of the Cold War. In addition to their inadequate coverage, the networks also deprived Americans of balanced coverage of the investments made in high-tech weapons that ultimately prevailed in the Gulf War. Though the networks receive good marks for foreign policy coverage, they need to improve the quality of defense reports. This book provides them with the lessons and prescriptions for doing so, and it serves as a primer for all Americans who want to know just what it was that the networks failed to tell them.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313388571
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Using journalists' own standards as the measure, an exhaustive analysis of nearly 3000 network news reports from the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton administrations reveals that the networks may do more to misinform than inform on a whole range of complex issues related to national defense. This study paints a disturbing picture of the inadequate coverage ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News provide to millions of viewers each night. Aubin concludes that network coverage of defense issues was too often tainted by preconceived attitudes and lapses in journalistic standards. While as much as twenty-five cents of every dollar went to the defense budget during some of the periods reviewed, the networks hardly covered the key issues surrounding the Reagan defense buildup or the dramatic cuts that followed the end of the Cold War. In addition to their inadequate coverage, the networks also deprived Americans of balanced coverage of the investments made in high-tech weapons that ultimately prevailed in the Gulf War. Though the networks receive good marks for foreign policy coverage, they need to improve the quality of defense reports. This book provides them with the lessons and prescriptions for doing so, and it serves as a primer for all Americans who want to know just what it was that the networks failed to tell them.
Physics of Societal Issues
Author: David Hafemeister
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387689095
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Physics of Societal Issues is a textbook those who seek to understand fundamental issues of energy use, nuclear weapons, and the environment using facts and figures instead of slogans and postures. Taking inspiration from Fermi's famous "back of the envelope" calculations, author David Hafemeister shows how to capture the essence of a problem with rough estimates of important parameters, and use those estimates to gauge the effects of policy decisions.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387689095
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Physics of Societal Issues is a textbook those who seek to understand fundamental issues of energy use, nuclear weapons, and the environment using facts and figures instead of slogans and postures. Taking inspiration from Fermi's famous "back of the envelope" calculations, author David Hafemeister shows how to capture the essence of a problem with rough estimates of important parameters, and use those estimates to gauge the effects of policy decisions.