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
 collapse sectionChapter 3 Measure for Measure The Technological Prospect
 •The Proposed Technologies
 expand sectionA Layered Defense: The SDI Architecture
 •Battle Management
 •The Testing Problem
 •The Aps Study
 •The Controversy Over The APS Report
 •The Proposal For Early Deployment
 •A More Modest Proposal: ALPS
 •From "Smart Rocks" To "Brilliant Pebbles": Another Supposed Last Move
 collapse sectionWhat Might Come Of This Research? Four Possibilities
 •Case 1: Great Promise
 •Case 2: Some Promise
 •Case 3: Little Promise
 •Case 4: No Promise
 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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