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
 collapse sectionChapter 5 "Don't Ask the Soviets. Tell Them" SDI and Arms Control
 •The ABM Treaty And Salt: The Link That Failed
 •From Deadlock To Dashed Hopes: The Impasse At Reykjavík
 •The Political Effort To Shore Up SDI
 expand sectionThe Terms Of The ABM Treaty
 expand sectionReinterpreting The Text: The Rise Of The "Legally Correct" Interpretation
 •The Treaty And SDI Experiments
 •The Disagreement At Reykjavík
 •The Soviet Position
 •Breaking The Impasse
 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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