Selling Strategic Defense : : Interests, Ideologies, and the Arms Race / / Erik K. Pratt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Pratt, Erik K.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Tables and Figures --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Gambling with Extinction --; 2 Defending Against the Unthinkable: Strategic Defense from 1945 to 1975 --; 3 Promoting the Prohibited: The Aftermath of the ABM Treaty --; 4 The Evolving Hedge: BMD During the Carter Administration --; 5 From Hedge to Pledge: Reagan's Decree for Strategic Defense --; 6 Rethinking the Military-Industrial Complex: The Case of Strategic Defense --; Appendix: BMD and Related Funding (1962-1987) --; List of Acronyms --; References --; Index --; About the Book and the Author
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781685851484; 9783110784268
• DOI: 10.1515/9781685851484
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Erik K. Pratt.

Pratt examines the origins of U.S. missile defense programs since 1945, analyzes the personal stakes and political fortunes of the individuals and groups who have tried to sell the U.S. government and public on the idea of strategic defense, and shows that parochial interests are inevitably intertwined with more broadly based national security interests in the process of determining types of weapons systems developed in the U.S.