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Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence

2009
Technology is championed as the solution to modern security problems, but also blamed as their cause. This book assesses the way in which these two views collide in the debate over ballistic missile defence: a complex, costly and controversial system intended to defend the United States from nuclear missile attacks.
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Ballistic missile defence: The allied dimension

The RUSI Journal, 1995
In discussions on ballistic missile defence, the role of collaborative programmes is high on the agenda. But in order to establish a basis for cooperative effort, everyone needs to start from a similar point and understand past attempts before mutual security can be ensured.
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Rethinking strategic ballistic missile defences

Arms Control, 1993
(1993). Rethinking strategic ballistic missile defences. Arms Control: Vol. 14, RETHINKING THE UNTHINKABLE New Directions for Nuclear Arms Control, pp. 180-207.
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Nuclear Zero and Ballistic-Missile Defence

Survival, 2010
A key issue with regard to achieving deep cuts in nuclear arms is the role of defences, in particular ballistic-missile defences. Defences are often viewed as obstructions to deep cuts, because strategic stability may be compromised when offensive nuclear forces are reduced to the point where the defence can absorb an opponent's retaliatory strike ...
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Ballistic Missile Defences: Implications for India

Strategic Analysis, 2001
Given the profound implications of ballistic missile defences (BMD), it is imperative for India to accord adequate thought and attention to the issue.
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Back to the Future: Canada and Ballistic Missile Defence

2021
In 2005, Prime Minister Paul Martin, like all of his predecessors, refused to join the American ballistic missile defence (BMD) system. However, recent events, most notably North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile testing, have put BMD back on the Canadian foreign policy agenda.
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Japan, Ballistic Missile Defence and remilitarisation

Space Policy, 2013
Japan's future trajectory in security policy and the extent of deviation from the post-war course of a constrained military stance have been the source of constant academic and policy debate. Japanese policy-makers have maintained that national security policy has shown no fundamental deviation, and that this can be benchmarked against a range of ...
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Ballistic Missile Defence and the Strategic Balance

1970
I n the years since the flurry of anxiety in the United States about an illusory ‘missile gap’ in I960, the impression has grown that the increasing numbers of strategic missiles possessed by the United States and the Soviet Union have created a completely stable balance of mutual destructive capacity that no effort on either side could upset. This has
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The Moral Obligation of Missile Defence? Preventive War Argumentation and Ballistic Missile Defence Advocacy

Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 2006
This article aims to assess the moral arguments that have been propounded for missile defence in the post-Cold-War era and to evaluate how these relate to those made for the ‘pre-emptive’ use of military force. Specific attention is paid to the argument that contemporary missile defence constitutes a form of moral obligation for the United States, a ...
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Lasers for Ballistic Missile Defence-An Update

1987
The concept of ‘layering’ as applied to possible architecture for ballistic missile defence is well known. Original suggestions of four layers, overlaying the four identifiable phases in the trajectory of a ballistic missile (see p.42), and intended to be applied serially, have in recent months, when SDIO architecture studies have come under further ...
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