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NATO's anti-tactical ballistic missile requirements and their relationship to the Strategic Defense Initiative / David Rubenson, James Bonomo.

Title
NATO's anti-tactical ballistic missile requirements and their relationship to the Strategic Defense Initiative / David Rubenson, James Bonomo.
Author
Rubenson, David, 1954-
Publication
Santa Monica, CA : Rand, [1987]

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Additional Authors
  • Bonomo, James.
  • Project Air Force (U.S.).
  • United States. Air Force
Description
xii, 52 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
This report attempts to structure the broad range of issues affecting the potential development of anti-tactical ballistic missile (ATBM) systems by evaluating the relationship among NATO's potential needs for ATBMs, the technologies under development in the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program, and the political constraints in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), where ATBMs would be deployed. The authors conclude that planners attempting to improve NATO's air defenses and those attempting to advance SDI research goals are faced with distinctly different problems. Since NATO's requirements have little connection to SDI, an ATBM system intended to advance SDI goals must be based almost entirely on SDI objectives and could cause controversy in the FRG. Conversely, the limited systems of most interest to NATO stand outside the political debate.
Series Statement
The Rand publication series
Uniform Title
The Rand publication series.
Subject
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • Ballistic missile defenses
  • Strategic Defense Initiative
  • Europe > Defenses
Note
  • "A Project Air Force report prepared for the United States Air Force."
  • "R-3533-AF."
  • "December 1987."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- ATBMS and the conventional missile threat -- Using conventionally armed TBMS -- ATBMS and chemical and nuclear threats -- The role of NATO-ATBM and the relation to SDI -- ATBM politics in the federal republic of Germany -- Conclusions.
ISBN
0833008927
OCLC
  • 18201626
  • SCSB-9975865
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library