Arms control and The President's Strategic Defense Initiative
Abstract
The President's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) provides the hope for eliminating the threat from ballistic missiles. This study evaluates the impact of SDI on existing and future arms control agreements. Because new or modified space-related treaties are a probable result of the SDI, this study concludes that the best single strategy for arms control negotiations is to preserve overall US interests and maintain open technological options vice severely limiting any space technology that might some day become part of a space-based defensive system.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- April 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985STIN...8535212B
- Keywords:
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- Antimissile Missiles;
- Disarmament;
- Strategy;
- Warfare;
- Aerospace Engineering;
- Defense Program;
- Military Operations;
- Security;
- Space Bases;
- Launch Vehicles and Space Vehicles