| A Shield in Space? |
| Preface |
| Acronyms and Abbreviations |
| Chapter 1 Why SDI? |
| Chapter 2 The Elusive Quest For Strategic Defenses Lessons of Recent History |
| Chapter 3 Measure for Measure The Technological Prospect |
| Chapter 4 A Defense Transition? SDI and Strategic Stability |
| Chapter 5 "Don't Ask the Soviets. Tell Them" SDI and Arms Control |
| Chapter 6 A "Maginot Line of the Twenty-first Century"? SDI and the Western Alliance |
| Chapter 7 Deploy or Perish SDI and Domestic Politics |
| Chapter 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 |
| Chapter 9 Security Through Technology An Illusory Faith |
| Notes |
| Select Bibliography |
| Index |