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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Strategic Defense Initiative"”.
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Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative and transatlantic relations, 1983-86
… investigates the impact of Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative on transatlantic relations during the period 1983-86. The dissertation focuses on the three main European powers, namely Britain, France, and the Federal Republic of Germany, and examines their reaction to SDI both …
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A goal Programming R&D project funding model of the US Army Strategic Defense Command using the analytic hierarchy process
At present the US Army Strategic Defense Command (USASDC relies on subjective judgments from key management personnel to make project funding decisions. In this thesis the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is used to convert subjective pairwise comparisons of thirty-five major USASDC projects, based …
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Ballistic Missile Defense in the Post-Cold War Era
… This thesis reviews U.S. ballistic missile defense policies and programs from the inception of the Strategic Defense Initiative, and in the context of the ABM Treaty. While there are several possible ways to deal with the ballistic missile threat, none can be relied upon completely; hence, …
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A Goliath and David Partnership: U.S.-Israel Missile Defense Collaboration from 1983 to 2016
… ballistic weaponry. Since Ronald Reagan’s 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) invitation for defensive collaboration, the United States and Israel have partnered in the field of ballistic missile defense (BMD). Prior to 1983, Israel espoused a purely offensive-defense strategic mentality, in …
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Scientists and the Ethics of Cold War Weapons Research
… societies were riven by clashes over defense contracting and academic "neutrality" in the context of the war in Vietnam. Whereas ethical debates in the aftermath of the Manhattan Project tended to be framed in individualist terms, the controversies of the late 1960s and early 1970s …
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Insiders and outsiders : nuclear arms control experts in Cold War America
… begins by exploring the formation of strategic arms control in the years leading up to 1960, showing how arms control emerged from the mixing of local communities of disarmament advocates and theorists of nuclear deterrence. Rather than inevitable doctrinal unity, early arms control …
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Space-Based Missile Defense: The Past, the Present, the Future
… the current state of the U.S. ballistic missile defense program, explains the history behind limitations on the program, examines and how these limitations have prevented the United States from exploiting space in order to develop the most effective and feasible missile defense program possible. …
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For God and Country: The Religious Right, the Reagan Administration, and the Cold War
… examining this relationship in terms of national defense policy, one can see not only that the Reagan administration relied on the Religious Right to gets its message out on sensitive issues like the nuclear freeze movement, but also that the Religious Right was eager to gain access to the seat of …