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  title info:
    title: Defending America
    sub title: the case for limited national missile defense
  name:
    name part: Lindsay, James M.
    name part: 1959-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  name:
    name part: O'Hanlon, Michael E.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  abstract: Publisher Fact Sheet The much politicized debate over building a national missile defense system has underscored the need for independent analysis about its probable value and effectiveness. Written for a general audience, Defending America explores the contending arguments surrounding national missile defense. The book assesses the current and likely future missile threat to the United States, examines relevant technologies, and suggests how America's friends and foes would react to a decision to develop a national missile defense.
  abstract: Annotation Lindsay and O'Hanlon (both foreign policy studies, the Brookings Institution) consider the potential benefits and dangers of implementing a national missile defense (NMD) system. They contend that a limited, small-scale NMD could effectively defend the United States against attacks from relatively unsophisticated foes. As the implementation of an NMD would violate the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, they caution that the United States should only proceed after negotiations with Russia and China. Annotation c. Book News, Incorporated, Portland, OR (booknews.com).
  abstract: Annotation Arms control and missile defense are once again at the forefront of the American national security agenda. Not surprisingly, the debate has broken down along well-worn lines. Arms control advocates dismiss the idea of missile defense as a dangerous and costly folly. Missile defense advocates argue that the U.S. should move aggressively to defend itself against missile attack. With clear and lively prose free of partisan rhetoric, Defending America provides reliable, factual analysis of the missile defense debate. Written for a general audience, it assesses the current and likely future missile threat to the United States, examines relevant technologies, and suggests how America's friends and foes would react to a decision to build a national missile defense. Lindsay and O'Hanlon reject calls for large-scale systems as well as proposals to do nothing, instead arguing for a limited national missile defense.
  table of contents: ch. 1. Defending America. Déjà vu all over again -- Is the third time a charm? -- Why not prevention, preemption, and deterrence? -- Sensible defense means limited defense -- A modest proposal -- chapter 2. Missile Defense: concepts and systems -- Basic elements of ballistic missiles -- The trajectory of a ballistic missile -- Basic types of missile defenses -- Types of theater missile defenses -- Types of national missile defense -- Decoys and other countermeasures -- chapter 3. The threat. A growing ballistic missile threat? -- Russia -- China -- North Korea, Iran, and Iraq -- Other emerging ballistic missile powers -- Alternative threats -- The consequences of a missile attack -- chapter 4. Missile defense programs and architectures. Midcourse defense: the Clinton Administration program -- Larger midcourse defenses -- Boost-phase defenses -- Layered and space-based systems -- Conclusion -- chapter 5. The international politics of missile defense -- Russia -- China -- America's friends and allies -- South Asia -- No more disarmament? -- chapter 6. Missile defense and American security. A limited, two-tier national missile defense against "rogue" regimes -- Selling a limited, two-tier defense abroad -- Selling a limited, two-tier defense at home -- Appendixes. A. Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and related documents -- B. Excerpts from the DCI National Intelligence Estimate -- C. Excerpts from the 1998 Rumsfeld Commission Report -- D. Excerpts from the 1999 National Intelligence Review -- Notes -- Index.
  note: James M. Lindsay, Michael E. O'Hanlon.
  note: Also available via the World Wide Web.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-246) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Ballistic missile defenses
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Défense antimissile
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Ballistic missile defenses
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: ABM-System
  subject:
    topic: National Missile Defense
  subject:
    topic: Sicherheitspolitik
  subject:
    geographic: USA
  subject:
    topic: Militaire politiek
  subject:
    topic: Ballistic missile defenses
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Défense antimissile
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: ABM
  classification: UG743 .L39 2001
  classification: 358.1/74/0973
  classification: 89.84
  classification: MG 70940
  identifier: 0815700083
  identifier: 9780815700081
  identifier: 0815706332
  identifier: 9780815706335
  identifier: 2001001713
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    physical location: TAG TAGC
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 010321
    record change date: 20240808200125.7
    record identifier: in00004816330
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng