Strategic Defense and International Stability.

Abstract

These papers grew out a workshop on Strategic Defenses and international Stability held at Los Alamos on October 30, 1987. The workshop was sponsored by the Center for National Security Studies of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The purpose of the workshop was to present a broad discussion of the relationship between stability and defenses against ballistic missiles. A range of views about the relationship exists in policy circles in the United States and among our allies, and this range was reflected in the presentations by a panel of experts. The term "stability" has a number of specific meanings when used in public discussion of strategic matters. This report first examines these different meanings--deterrence stability, crisis stability, arms control stability, and alliance stability-in the context of historical and contemporary strategic problems. Each member of the panel of experts then, in turn, assesses the effects of strategic defenses on stability for each of the meanings given above.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA344636

Entities

People

  • Fred S. Hoffman
  • George H. Quester
  • John J. Weltman
  • Kenneth N. Waltz
  • Stephen E. Hunter

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Arms Control
  • Defense Systems
  • Foreign Relations
  • Geography
  • Intergovernmental Organizations
  • International Organizations
  • International Relations
  • Military Organizations
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Recreation
  • Second World War
  • Sociopolitics
  • Strategic Weapons
  • Treaties
  • Weapons Effects

Readers

  • Asian Economic Studies
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.