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The Phantom Defense : (Record no. 55568)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780313016158
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9780275971830
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System control number (MiAaPQ)EBC3000528
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System control number (Au-PeEL)EBL3000528
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System control number (CaPaEBR)ebr10005674
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System control number (OCoLC)928191058
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Original cataloging agency MiAaPQ
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050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number UG743.E36 2001
082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 358.1/74/0973
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Eisendrath, Craig.
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The Phantom Defense :
Remainder of title America's Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion.
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Edition statement 1st ed.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Bloomsbury Publishing USA,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2001.
264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2001.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 online resource (211 pages)
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505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Cover -- THE PHANTOM DEFENSE -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY -- Chapter One Déjà Vu All Over Again: A Short History of "Star Wars" -- RESOURCES -- Chapter Two Anti-Missile Defense and the Political Maze -- MILITARIZATION OF INTELLIGENCE AND ITS POLITICAL MANIPULATION -- DEFENSE IN CONGRESS -- POLITICS AND NATIONAL SECURITY -- ECONOMIC BENEFITS OF NMD -- QUALITY CONTROL PROBLEMS -- LOBBYING FOR NMD -- RESOURCES -- Chapter Three Two Views of the World -- GLOBALIZATION OR THE NATION STATE? -- MUTUAL DEPENDENCE IN A DANGEROUS WORLD -- THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN UNILATERALISM -- UNILATERALISM AND THE MILITARY OPTION -- THE AMERICAN ROMANCE WITH TECHNOLOGY -- LOOKING BACKWARD AND FORWARD -- NOTE -- RESOURCES -- PART II THE THREAT, AND EFFORTS TO MEET IT -- Chapter Four The Exaggerated Threat of Ballistic Missiles -- NORTH KOREA -- IRAN -- IRAQ -- RUSSIA AND CHINA -- OTHER COUNTRIES -- FORWARD-BASED THREATS: "THE SUITCASE BOMB ARGUMENT" -- RESOURCES -- Chapter Five Why National Missile Defense Won't Work -- THE COST OF COUNTERMEASURES -- CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS -- THE TECHNOLOGY OF TESTING NMD -- WASTE, FRAUD, AND ABUSE -- THE SCHEDULING AND THOROUGHNESS OF TESTING NMD -- REASSESSING THE VIABILITY OF NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE -- NOTES -- RESOURCES -- Chapter Six Other Proposed National Missile Defense Systems -- NUCLEAR DEFENSES -- BOOST-PHASE DEFENSE -- THEATER DEFENSES -- EXOTIC APPROACHES -- NOTES -- RESOURCES -- PART III INTERNATIONAL CONSEQUENCES AND POLICY ALTERNATIVES -- Chapter Seven Geopolitical Implications of National Missile Defense -- NEGATIVE RESPONSE FROM RUSSIA AND CHINA -- OPPOSITION IN SOUTH ASIA -- OPPOSITION IN EUROPE -- THE NORTH KOREAN ANGLE -- NMD AND THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA -- IMPLICATIONS OF AN NMD SYSTEM -- NOTE -- RESOURCES.
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Formatted contents note Chapter Eight Arms Control and Policy Alternatives -- BAN ON MISSILE DEFENSE FOSTERS ARMS CONTROL -- EFFECTS OF NMD -- MILITARIZATION OF FOREIGN POLICY -- ALTERNATIVES TO NMD -- NON-FIRST USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS -- THE DIPLOMATIC ROUTE TO COUNTERPROLIFERATION -- THE GEOPOLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF NMD -- THE ALTERNATIVE TO UNILATERALISM -- NOTES -- RESOURCES -- Appendix One Countermeasures -- RESOURCES -- Appendix Two Waste, Fraud, and Abuse -- THE X-RAY LASER -- NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE -- LETTER FROM DR. THEODORE A. POSTOL, PROFESSOR OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY, MIT, TO PRESIDENT WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON, JULY 6, 2000 -- LETTER FROM MR. JOHN PODESTA, WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF, TO DR. THEODORE A. POSTOL, JULY 14, 2000 -- LETTER FROM DR. THEODORE A. POSTOL TO MR. JOHN PODESTA, JULY 21, 2000 -- LETTER FROM DR. THEODORE POSTOL TO MR. JOHN PODESTA, MAY 11, 2000 -- Excerpts from Attachment A: Explanation of Why the Sensor in the Atmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) Cannot Reliably Discriminate Decoys from Warheads -- How the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) Picks Its Target -- NOTES -- Appendix Three The Center for International Policy -- Index -- About the Authors.
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Source of description note Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN)
Local note Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Ballistic missile defenses -- United States.
655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Goodman, Melvin A.
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Marsh, Gerald E.
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Relationship information Print version:
Main entry heading Eisendrath, Craig
Title The Phantom Defense
Place, publisher, and date of publication New York : Bloomsbury Publishing USA,c2001
International Standard Book Number 9780275971830
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element ProQuest (Firm)
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3000528">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3000528</a>
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