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ANTI-TACTICAL BALLISTIC MISSILES--EUROPE --- ANTIMISSILE MISSILES --- EUROPE--NATIONAL SECURITY

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Analysis of the need of Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missiles and its consequences for arms control and security in Europe/Western Europe

Anti-tactical ballistic missiles --- NATO --- Armed Forces --- Weapons systems. --- Europe --- Defenses.

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This report attempts to structure the broad range of issues affecting the potential development of anti-tactical ballistic missile (ATBM) systems by evaluating the relationship among NATO's potential needs for ATBMs, the technologies under development in the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program, and the political constraints in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), where ATBMs would be deployed. The authors conclude that planners attempting to improve NATO's air defenses and those attempting to advance SDI research goals are faced with distinctly different problems. Since NATO's requirements have little connection to SDI, an ATBM system intended to advance SDI goals must be based almost entirely on SDI objectives and could cause controversy in the FRG. Conversely, the limited systems of most interest to NATO stand outside the political debate.

Anti-tactical ballistic missiles. --- Strategic Defense Initiative. --- North Atlantic Treaty Organization --- Armed Forces --- Weapons systems. --- Europe --- Defenses.