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The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to develop a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system has both short-range and long-range risks as well as potential benefits. For the most part, however, strategic, technological, and political issues relevant to SDI have been analyzed in isolation from one another. This book provides a more inclusive framework for assessing the possible development and deployment of a BMD system by the United States or the Soviet Union. Contributors discuss the risks for arms race stability, probable reactions of the Soviet Union to any U.S. space-based defense system, and implications for the stability of extended deterrence commitments to NATO European allies. They also evaluate Soviet research and development programs in missile defense that must be considered in any extrapolation of the requirements for U.S. deterrence in the next several decades.

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The Technology, Strategy, and Politics of SDI
About the Book and Editor
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) to develop a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system has both short-range and long-range risks as well as potential benefits. For the most part, however, strategic, technological, and political issues relevant to SDI have been analyzed in isolation from one another. This book provides a more inclusive framework for assessing the possible development and deployment of a BMD system by the United States or the Soviet Union. Contributors discuss the risks for arms race stability, probable reactions of the Soviet Union to any U.S. space-based defense system, and implications for the stability of extended deterrence commitments to NATO European allies. They also evaluate Soviet research and development programs in missile defense that must be considered in any extrapolation of the requirements for U.S. deterrence in the next several decades.
Stephen J. Cimbala is professor of political science at Pennsylvania State University.
First published 1987 by Westview Press
Published 2019 by Routledge
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Copyright 1987 Taylor & Francis
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
The Technology, strategy, and politics of SDI.
(Westview special studies in national security and
defense policy)
1. Strategic Defense Initiative. I. Cimbala,
Stephen J. II. Series.
UG743.T43 1987 358.1754 86-28096
ISBN 13: 978-0-367-29647-6 (hbk)
To my wife and to my mother
Contents
, Stephen J. Cimbala
PART ONE
Are Ballistic Missile Defenses Necessary? Three Perspectives
, Gary L. Guertner
Donald M. Snow
, Leon Sloss and Seymour Weiss
PART TWO
Point Defenses: Halfway House or Strategic Misdirection?
, Jonathan B. Stein
, David S. Sorenson
PART THREE
SDI and the Atlantic Alliance: Strategy and Policy Issues
, David N. Schwartz
, James C. Wendt
PART FOUR
Soviet Strategic Policy and the Impact of SDI
, Daniel Gour
, Richard E. Thomas
PART FIVE
SDI and Arms Control: Compatible or Conflictuel?
, Keith B. Payne and Patrick Friel
Stephen J. Cimbala
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Guide
The editor gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Barbara Ellington of Westview Press and Diane Wolf of Pennsylvania State University, Delaware County Campus, in preparation of this manuscript for publication. Arguments by the contributors represent their personal work and not the views of the U.S. government or other employing agencies.
Stephen J. Cimbala
ADassured destruction
ALCMair-launched cruise missile
ASATantisatellite
ASWantisubmarine warfare
ATBMantitactical ballistic missile antitheater ballistic missile
AWACAirborne Warning and Control System
BMDballistic missile defense
C2command and control
C3command, control, and communications
C3Icommand, control, communications, and intelligence
CIACentral Intelligence Agency
DEdamage expectancy
DPBdefense-protected build-down
ECMelectronic countermeasures
EMPelectromagnetic pulse
FOBSfractional orbital bombardment system
GLCMground-launched cruise missile
HOEHoming Overlay Experiment
ICBMintercontinental ballistic missile
INFintermediate-range nuclear forces
IRBMintermediate-range ballistic missile
ktkiloton
LCClaunch control center
LNOlimited nuclear option
LRINFLong-range Intermediate Nuclear Forces
LWIRlong wavelength infrared
MADmutual assured destruction
MARVmaneuverable reentry vehicle
MASmutual assured survival
MIRVmultiple, independently targeted, reentry vehicle
MTmegaton
NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization
NCANational Command Authority
NPGNuclear Planning Group
NUWEPNuclear Weapons Employment Policy
OTHover the horizon
PBVpostboost vehicle
penaidpenetration aid
PSIpounds per square inch
R&Dresearch and development
RSDrealistic self-deterrence
RVreentry vehicle
SACStrategic Air Command
SALTStrategic Arms Limitation Talks
SAMsurface-to-air missile
SDIStrategic Defense Initiative
SDIOStrategic Defense Initiative Organization
SIOPSingle Integrated Operational Plan
SIRshuttle imaging radar
SLBMsea-launched ballistic missile submarine-launched ballistic missile
SNDVstrategic nuclear delivery vehicle
SRBMshort-range ballistic missile
SSBNballistic missile submarine
SSNnuclear-powered attack submarine
STARTStrategic Arms Reduction Talks
TERCOMterrain contour mapping
TVDtheater of military operations
Stephen J. Cimbala
The U.S. dialogue on strategic defense includes disputes about matters as basic as whether it is desirable to have defenses at all. As the chapters in this book indicate, the debate about active defenses versus ballistic missile threats continues to reflect the most fundamental disagreements. Even those who think ballistic missile defense (BMD) desirable or feasible will not concur about the how and when of its deployment.
The arguments about BMD can be divided into theological and pragmatic categories. Theological disputations reflect ongoing scholarly concern about whether deterrence by denial or by punishment is more effective. In academia this debate is very polarized. One faction holds that deterrence by punishment is the only adequate basis for stable strategic nuclear deterrence between the superpowers. Another contends that mutual assured destruction (MAD) or assured retaliation is no longer credible in the face of new technologies and an ambitious Soviet challenge.
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