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The advisors : Oppenheimer, Teller, and the superbomb
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ISBN: 0716707187 Year: 1976 Publisher: San Francisco (Calif.): Freeman


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Race to oblivion : a participant's view of the arms race
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ISBN: 0671209310 Year: 1971 Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster,

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ARMS RACE

Arms and the physicist
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ISBN: 1563960990 Year: 1994 Publisher: Woodbury, NY American Institute of Physics

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Race to oblivion : a participant's view of the arms race
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ISBN: 0671206109 Year: 1970 Publisher: New York Simon & Schuster

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A Shield in Space? : Technology, Politics, and the Strategic Defense Initiative. How the Reagan Administration Set Out to Make Nuclear Weapons "Impotent and Obsolete" and Succumbed to the Fallacy of the Last Move
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ISBN: 0520328078 Year: 2021 Publisher: University of California Press

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.

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A shield in space? : technology, politics, and the strategic defense initiative : how the Reagan administration set out to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" and succumbed to the fallacy of the last move
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ISBN: 0520066502 0585043795 Year: 1989 Volume: 1 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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In March 1983, Ronald Reagan made one of the most controversial announcements of his presidency when he called on the nation's scientists and engineers to develop a defensive shield so impenetrable as to make nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." This book provides the first comprehensive review and evaluation of the project launched to implement that announcement - the project officially known as the Strategic Defense Initiative and more popularly as "Star Wars." The authors - a political scientist and a physicist who has played a key role in developing military technologies - provide an intriguing account of how political rather than technical judgment led to the initial decision, and they explain the technical issues in terms accessible to nonspecialists. Judging SDI as "a classic example of misplaced faith in the promise of technological salvation," the authors examine the implications of the program for strategy, arms control, the unity of the Western alliance, its prospective economic impact, and the way the American political process has dealt with all these issues. Publisher's description.


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Science, Technology, and National Policy

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