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Justifying ballistic missile defence : technology, security and culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Peoples, Columba
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:Cambridge studies in international relations ; no. 112.
Subjects:
Ballistic missile defenses > United States.
Ballistic missile defenses > Political aspects > United States.
Strategic culture > United States.
Défense antimissile > États-Unis.
Défense antimissile balistique > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Culture stratégique > États-Unis.
Ballistic missile defenses
Strategic culture
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Critical theory, security and technology
  • Technology and common sense in America
  • Defence in the missile age?
  • Post-war missile defence and the language of technological fears
  • The Strategic Defense Initiative and America's technological heritage
  • 'Star Wars' and technological determinism
  • Ballistic missile defence : 'technology, working for you now'
  • The iron cage of proliferation.