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
 collapse sectionChapter 8  Calculating the Costs and Benefits
 •The Research Phase: Projections And Actual Appropriations
 •The Present Status Of SDI
 •Reorienting The "Investment Strategy"
 •Gauging The Direct And Indirect Costs Of Deployment
 •Projecting The Costs Of Initial Deployment
 •Blechman And Utgoff's Four "Notional" Systems
 •The SDIO/Marshall Institute Phase I System
 •The Spin-Off Issue
 expand sectionChapter 9  Security Through Technology An Illusory Faith

 expand sectionNotes
  Select Bibliography
 expand sectionIndex
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