TY - BOOK AU - Chayes,Abram AU - Wiesner,Jerome B. AU - Kennedy,Edward M. AU - Bethe,Hans A. TI - ABM: an evaluation of the decision to deploy an antiballistic missile system T2 - A Signet broadside AV - UG633 .A7 PY - 1969///] CY - New York PB - Harper & Row KW - Air defenses KW - United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references; I; ABM deployment: what's wrong with it? An overview; by Abram Chayes [and others] --; II; Minuteman defense: will it help?; Defense of the deterrent; by Carl Kaysen; Some first-strike scenarios; by Jerome B. Wiesner; What does Safeguard safeguard?; by Steven Weinberg; Command and control; by Bill D. Moyers. --; III; Safeguard system: will it work? ABM reliability; by Leonard S. Rodberg; Underestimates and overexpectations; assembled by J.C.R. Licklider; Countermeasures to ABM systems; by Hans A. Bethe; The problem of momentum; by Adam Yarmolinsky. --; IV; Strategic balance: will it be upset?; The effect of ABM on U.S.-Soviet relations; by Marshall D. Shulman; The Chinese nuclear threat; by Allen S. Whiting; Asia and the ABM; by Allen S. Whiting; The ABM and Western Europe; by Theodore C. Sorensen. --; V; Arms control: will it be set back?; The ABM and arms control; by Bernard T. Feld; Can the Communists deceive us?; by Jeremy J. Stone; ABM and non-proliferation; by Mason Willrich; The attitude of the world community toward the ABM; by Arthur J. Goldberg. --; VI. Appendix. Glossary; Chronology; Basic documents in the debate; Some effects of nuclear weapons; Technical notes ER -