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Heavenly Ambitions : America's Quest to Dominate Space.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (191 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812202366
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Heavenly AmbitionsDDC classification:
  • 629.410973
LOC classification:
  • TL789.8.U5 -- J649 2009eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Preface -- 1 Space: The Final Cold War Frontier -- 2 The Evolution of U.S. Space Policy -- 3 Space Weapons: Fact and Fiction -- 4 Strategic Communications: What Message Is the United States Trying to Convey? -- 5 Diplomacy and Arms Control: Limits and Opportunities -- 6 Globalizing Space -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: In Heavenly Ambitions, Joan Johnson-Freese lays out her vision of the future of space as a frontier where nations cooperate, and military activity is circumscribed by arms control treaties that would allow no one nation to dominate--just as no one nation's military dominates the world's oceans.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Acronyms -- Preface -- 1 Space: The Final Cold War Frontier -- 2 The Evolution of U.S. Space Policy -- 3 Space Weapons: Fact and Fiction -- 4 Strategic Communications: What Message Is the United States Trying to Convey? -- 5 Diplomacy and Arms Control: Limits and Opportunities -- 6 Globalizing Space -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

In Heavenly Ambitions, Joan Johnson-Freese lays out her vision of the future of space as a frontier where nations cooperate, and military activity is circumscribed by arms control treaties that would allow no one nation to dominate--just as no one nation's military dominates the world's oceans.

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