National Security Report: Background and Perspective on Important National Security and Defense Policy Issues. Volume 2, Issue 4, August 1998. Unveiling the Ballistic Missile Threat: The Ramifications of the Rumsfeld Report

Abstract

Developing and deploying systems to defend against ballistic missiles has been a highly controversial issue since l983, when President Reagan first challenged the scientific community to develop ways of rendering nuclear ballistic missiles "impotent and obsolete". Indeed, this challenge remains a formidable one, and the task of destroying ballistic missiles after launch is often likened to "hitting a bullet with a bullet."

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA377558

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  • Floyd Spence

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  • Acquisition
  • Anti-Ballistic Missiles
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Cold War
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Communities
  • Control Systems
  • Defense Systems
  • Intelligence Community
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Procurement
  • Security
  • United States
  • Weapons
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

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