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Eisendrath, Craig; Marsh, Gerald E.; Goodman, Melvin A. The Phantom Defense: America's Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion
Praeger Publishers Inc.,U.S. 2001 027597183X / 9780275971830 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine
Near-new condition. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Tight spine - Bright pages. 191 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. - In the past four decades, the United States has spent $85 billion pursuing the fantasy of an effective missile defense system to shield our nation against the threat of a nuclear attack. Recent public tests, while less exotic than some of the original "Star Wars" proposals, were spectacular failures and call into question the whole program's rationale. Neither the land-based system proposed by the Clinton administration, nor the alternatives proposed by earlier administrations, would ever work--regardless of how much R&D money is channeled into the project. Rather than enhancing national security, these doomed efforts would provoke a new arms race and alienate key allies. The authors apply their extensive insiders' expertise to argue that thoughtful diplomacy is the only real answer to meet America's national security goals. Synopsis Demonstrates how, rather than enhancing American national security, a national missile defense would destroy it by provoking a new arms race.
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