To contribute to the worldwide debate on President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, here are two important studies, Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies and Anti-Satellite Weapons, Countermeasures. and Arms Control.

Originally published in 1986.

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• FrontMatter,
• Foreword,
• Contents,
• Office of Technology Assessment,
• Chapter 1. Executive Summary,
• Chapter 2. Introduction,
• Chapter 3. Ballistic Missile Defense Then and Now,
• Chapter 4. Deterrence, U.S. Nuclear Strategy, and BMD,
• Chapter 5. BMD Capabilities and the Strategic Balance,
• Chapter 6. Crisis Stability, Arms Race Stability, and Arms Control Issues,
• Chapter 7. Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies,
• Chapter 8. Feasibility,
• Chapter 9. Alternative Future Scenarios,
• Chapter 10. Alternative R&D Programs,
• Appendix A. Ballistic Missile Defense and the ABM Treaty,
• Appendix B. Texts of the 1972 ABM Treaty, Its Agreed Interpretations, and Its 1976 Protocol,
• Appendix C. Effects of BMD Deployment on Existing Arms Control Treaties,
• Appendix D. Defense Requirements for Assured Survival,
• Appendix E. Defense Capability Levels and U.S. Strategy Choices,
• Appendix F. BMD and the Military R&D Budget,
• Appendix G. Studies of the High Frontier Global Ballistic Missile Defense I,
• Appendix H. Excerpts From Statements on BMD by Reagan Administration Officials,
• Appendix I. List of Reagan Administration Statements on BMD,
• Appendix J. Articles by Critics of the Strategic Defense Initiative,
• Appendix K. Excerpts From Soviet Statements on BMD,
• Appendix L. References on Strategic Nuclear Policy,
• Appendix M. References on Soviet Strategic Policy,
• Appendix N. Glossary of Acronyms and Terms,
• Front matter 2,
• Foreword,
• Glossary of Acronyms and Terms,
• Contents,
• Chapter 1. Executive Summary,
• Chapter 2. Introduction,
• Chapter 3. MILSATs, ASATs, and National Security,
• Chapter 4. ASAT Capabilities and Countermeasures,
• Chapter 5. ASAT Arms Control: History,
• Chapter 6. ASAT Arms Control: Options,
• Chapter 7. Comparative Evaluation of ASAT Policy Options,
• Appendix A. Soviet Draft Treaty on the Prohibition of the Use of Force in Outer Space and From Space Against the Earth,