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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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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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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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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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Technological and strategic aspects of ballistic missile defence

The International Spectator, 1990
(1990). Technological and strategic aspects of ballistic missile defence. The International Spectator: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 45-58.
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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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A Global Defence Against Ballistic Missiles

1987
Deterrence of war has been at the heart of Western security for the past forty years. Since the advent of nuclear weapons, Western leaders have sought to minimise the risk of destruction by maintaining effective nuclear-capable forces to deter aggression and by pursuing complementary arms control agreements. This approach appears to have worked.
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Britain and ballistic missile defence ‐a brief history

The RUSI Journal, 2001
(2001). Britain and ballistic missile defence ‐a brief history. The RUSI Journal: Vol. 146, No. 4, pp. 61-66.
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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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Ballistic missile defence

Survival, 1983
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