A Shield in Space?
  Preface
  Acronyms and Abbreviations

 expand sectionChapter 1  Why SDI?
 collapse sectionChapter 2  The Elusive Quest For Strategic Defenses Lessons of Recent History
 •The United States' Defensive Effort From The 1950s To 1975
 •The Soviet Effort In Defensive Systems
 •Why The Different Approaches?
 •The Militarization Of Space
 •The United States' Development Of ASATs
 •The Soviet Military Space Program
 •Civil Space Cooperation
 expand sectionChapter 3 Measure for Measure The Technological Prospect
 expand sectionChapter 4  A Defense Transition? SDI and Strategic Stability
 expand sectionChapter 5 "Don't Ask the Soviets. Tell Them" SDI and Arms Control
 expand sectionChapter 6 A "Maginot Line of the Twenty-first Century"? SDI and the Western Alliance
 expand sectionChapter 7 Deploy or Perish SDI and Domestic Politics
 expand sectionChapter 8  Calculating the Costs and Benefits
 expand sectionChapter 9  Security Through Technology An Illusory Faith

 expand sectionNotes
  Select Bibliography
 expand sectionIndex
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