Edited by Steven E. Miller & Stephen Van Evera

• FrontMatter,
• Contents,
• The Contributors,
• Preface,
• The SDI in U.S. Nuclear Strategy,
• Rhetoric and Realities in the Star Wars Debate,
• Why Even Good Defenses May Be Bad,
• Preserving the ABM Treaty: A Critique of the Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative,
• Do We Want the Missile Defenses We Can Build?,
• Ballistic Missile Defense and the Atlantic Alliance,
• Directed. Energy Missile Defense in Space (April 1984),
• Appendix A: Excerpt from President Reagan's Television,
• Appendix B: The ABM Treaty and Related Documents,
• Appendix C: Other Applications of Directed Energy Weapons,
• Ballistic Missile Defenses and U.S. National Security ("Hoffman Report"),
• The Strategic Defense Initiative: Defense Technologies Study ("Fletcher Report"),

These essays from the journal International Security assess the technical feasibility and the strategic desirability of defense against ballistic missiles.
Originally published in 1986.
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