ABM : an evaluation of the decision to deploy an antiballistic missile system /
A.B.M. : 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].
- [First edition].
- xxii, 282 p : ill ; 22 cm
- A Signet broadside ; 7 .
- Signet broadside ; 7. .
Includes bibliographical references.
ABM deployment: what's wrong with it? An overview / Minuteman defense: will it help? Defense of the deterrent / Some first-strike scenarios / What does Safeguard safeguard? / Command and control / Safeguard system: will it work? ABM reliability / Underestimates and overexpectations / Countermeasures to ABM systems / The problem of momentum / Strategic balance: will it be upset? The effect of ABM on U.S.-Soviet relations / The Chinese nuclear threat / Asia and the ABM / The ABM and Western Europe / Arms control: will it be set back? The ABM and arms control / Can the Communists deceive us? / ABM and non-proliferation / The attitude of the world community toward the ABM / Chronology ; Basic documents in the debate ; Some effects of nuclear weapons ; by Abram Chayes [and others] -- by Carl Kaysen ; by Jerome B. Wiesner ; by Steven Weinberg ; by Bill D. Moyers. -- by Leonard S. Rodberg ; assembled by J.C.R. Licklider ; by Hans A. Bethe ; by Adam Yarmolinsky. -- by Marshall D. Shulman ; by Allen S. Whiting ; by Allen S. Whiting ; by Theodore C. Sorensen. -- by Bernard T. Feld ; by Jeremy J. Stone ; by Mason Willrich ; by Arthur J. Goldberg. -- I. II. III. IV. V. VI. Appendix. Glossary ; Technical notes.