Ballistic Missile Defense: Historical Overview

Abstract

For some time there has been a growing sense of urgency to develop and deploy effective missile defenses against a range of long and short range ballistic missile threats. Although many might believe this to be relative new to U.S. national security objectives, such interest has been ongoing since the l960s, and many current technologies being investigated date their start to the early l980s. This effort has been challenging technically' and politically controversial. Some $110 billion has been spent since the mid-l980s, Congress appropriated $9.3 billion in FY2006. Many observers expect that the 110th Congress will review the current technology and BMD test program in 2007. This report provides a brief overview of U.S. efforts to date. It may be updated.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 05, 2007
Accession Number
ADA467358

Entities

People

  • Steven A. Hildreth

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

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Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Air Defense
  • Anti-Ballistic Missiles
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Short Range Ballistic Missiles
  • Space Based
  • Theater Ballistic Missiles
  • Theater Missile Defense
  • Treaties
  • United States
  • Urban Areas
  • Ussr

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  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Strategic Security Studies