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Japan's Missile Defense
<p>For some years, Japan has pursued its own missile defense system in cooperation with the United States. The Japanese government claims that the missile defense (JMD) program is purely defensive and will not pose a threat to other countries. JMD may seem justified by North Korea's development of …
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Ballistic Missile Defense: A History and Reevaluation of Missile Defense in the United States
… United States to develop and deploy ballistic missile defense are nothing new. Under the context of Mutually Assured Destruction and the Cold War, a "limited” missile defense was proposed. Given technological and political shortfalls, the deployment of a "limited” missile defense was delayed …
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On Geopolitically Tailoring Missile Defense
… of the 21st century is a possible ballistic missile attack. Whether it is armed conventionally or with a weapon of mass destruction, a ballistic missile attack on the U.S. would have a horrific outcome. To counter this, threat the U.S. has been researching and developing missile defenses …
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BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
Ballistic missile proliferation is a significant concern in the Middle East. Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan have closely associated themselves with the United States. These nations are targets of American adversaries such as Iran, Syria, and terrorist groups. Findings of this study revealed the …
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Seaguard: a general purpose antiship missile defense computer simulation.
… event store computer simulation of the antiship missile defense of a naval task force using surface to air and air to air missiles. It simulates the interaction between the antiship missiles and the defensive missiles of a task force at sea in a non- jamming environment. Using SEAGUARD, the …
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Japanese Theater Missile Defense: Impact on North East Asia
… value of Japan and its possible role within a missile defense architecture. At the end of the Cold War the United States and Japan reevaluated their alliance. Growing regional threats, specifically a long-term threat from China, and more immediately, North Korea emerged. The White House urged …
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Ballistic Missile Defense in the Post-Cold War Era
The proliferation of ballistic missiles has considerably increased in the past decade, and it is highly likely that the United States will face a direct threat from new ballistic missile countries by the turn of the century. Unlike the recent National Intelligence Estimate this does not neglect the …
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Space-Based Missile Defense: The Past, the Present, the Future
… analyzes 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 …
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Japan's Security Decisions: Allison's Conceptual Models and Missile Defense Policy
… of the strategic environment and Japanese defense policy following the Cold War and 9/11. The rational actor, organizational process, and bureaucratic politics models are applied to Japan's 2003 decision to field a missile defense system through a qualitative analysis of English-language …
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Creating an Integrated Ballistic Missile Defense System for the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
… and importance of creating an integrated missile defense system for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries. With its ballistic missiles, Iran is capable of targeting, major American military installations in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, and Oman. Vital oil refineries, ports, …
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A Goliath and David Partnership: U.S.-Israel Missile Defense Collaboration from 1983 to 2016
Ballistic missiles and projectiles such as rockets provide the threat of large-scale damage to not only military but also civilian targets, with potentially high casualties. This technology was widely proliferated during the Cold War era, and many countries continue to develop ballistic technology …
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A Preliminary Design of Two Nuclear Energy Systems for Emergency On-Site Power Generation at Ballistic Missile Defense Installation
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Anti-Ballistic Missile Defense: an Overview of Major Programs and Issues of the Abm Debate Over the Past Forty-Five Years
… States has debated whether or not to deploy defenses against ballistic missile attack. In that time the United States grappled with a wide range of issues concerning the technical, strategic, political, and arms control merits of missile defense in the face of the Cold War, and now the …
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America's Provocative Weakness: the U.S. Policy of Vulnerability to Ballistic Missile Attack
Ballistic missile attack presents one of the most dangerous and troubling threats to the United States' national security today. For many nations that may wish to threaten the United States, ballistic missiles provide an affordable, readily accessible, and reliable delivery system for payloads …
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Satellite constellation design for mid-course ballistic missile intercept
… of constellations for satellite-based mid-course missile defense. The ballistic missile intercept problem leads to a new paradigm of coverage where interceptor "reachability" replaces line-of-sight coverage. Interceptors in this concept are limited in their time of flight and AV capabilities. …
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U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy: a Post-Soviet Reappraisal
… has traditionally subordinated ballistic missile defense to nuclear deterrence. Recent U.S. nuclear policy has continued this tradition. However, in addition to a continuing prohibition on a national missile defense, the capability and credibility of the U.S. nuclear deterrent force have …
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The Defense Department and innovation : an assessment of the technical and policy challenges of airborne boost-phase intercept
… major sources societal advance. In the realm of defense, it is of prime importance to the strategic interests of a nation. Defense innovation policy is the culmination of a variety of factors, including considerations of the future strategic environment, bureaucratic and organizational politics …
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Chinese Nuclear Policy
… and China's core military strategies of active defense and anti-access/area denial. Chinese nuclear policy will play a pivotal role in the future of China as it struggles to reduce the military superiority of the United States in East Asia. Innovative tactical nuclear weapons and advanced …
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Insiders and outsiders : nuclear arms control experts in Cold War America
… the Cold War, the age of thermonuclear ballistic missiles. Arms control experts were, in many interesting ways, both insiders and outsiders to the American "nuclear state." The dissertation begins by exploring the formation of strategic arms control in the years leading up to 1960, showing how …
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Ballistic missile tracking using the interacting multiple model joint probabilistic data association filter
… interceptors used by the United States ballistic missile defense program is jeopardized by the use of hostile missile decoy deployment and evasive maneuvers. The ability to discriminate between legitimate threats and decoys is a crucial requirement for interceptor algorithms. The feasibility of …
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