A Shield in Space?
  Preface
  Acronyms and Abbreviations

 expand sectionChapter 1  Why SDI?
 expand sectionChapter 2  The Elusive Quest For Strategic Defenses Lessons of Recent History
 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
 collapse sectionChapter 9  Security Through Technology An Illusory Faith
 •The Effects Of Politicization: Reviewing The Evidence
 •Prospects For U.S.-Soviet Agreement
 •The Consequences Of A Failure To Achieve Agreement
 •Motives And Consequences
 •Resistance To Arms Control: The Mindset Behind SDI
 •The Political System As A Corrective
 •The Myth Of Technological Determinism
 •Avoiding The Illusory Faith In Security Through Technology

 expand sectionNotes
  Select Bibliography
 expand sectionIndex
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