The Phantom Defense : America's Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (211 pages)
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. 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.