Ballistic Missile Defense Overview Presentation for Conference on the Law and Policy Relating to National Security Activities in Outer Space

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lester L. Lyles
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Ballistic Missile ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Ballistic Missile Defense ◽  
The Law

Collapse of the Consensus and the Struggle for Coherence, 1969–1970

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Cameron
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ballistic Missile ◽  
Defense System ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
Henry Kissinger ◽  
Richard Nixon ◽  
The Us ◽  
Ballistic Missile Defense ◽  
Nuclear Arms Control

This chapter shows how Richard Nixon and his national security advisor, Henry Kissinger, were forced to change their strategy for nuclear arms control based on the collapse of the US congressional consensus behind nuclear superiority. Nixon entered office with strong convictions on the importance of nuclear superiority for supporting the United States’ national security commitments. Nixon also saw US technological advantages in ballistic missile defenses as one of the main bargaining chips to cap the growth of Soviet offensive forces at the upcoming Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. This strategy for détente was thrown into disarray, however, when Congress signaled its lack of support for a new ballistic missile defense system and the strategy of nuclear superiority. Nixon and Kissinger then changed tack, attempting to conclude a quick arms limitation agreement through backchannel negotiations with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin. This initiative failed, weakening the American hand at the formal talks.

Ballistic missile defense and articulation theory

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Sikka
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Bush Administration ◽  
Ballistic Missile ◽  
The Political ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
Rogue States ◽  
Articulation Theory ◽  
Ballistic Missile Defense ◽  
Missile Attack

In this paper, I use articulation theory to examine the political discourse which surrounds the Bush Administrations proposed ballistic missile defense shield. I argue that there are three central articulations used by the Bush Administration to garner public support for the ballistic missile defense shield. They are: 1) the articulation of missile defense with national security; 2) the unity formed out of terrorism and the threat of a missile attack by rogue states; and 3) the articulation of missile defense with technological inevitability and progress. I illustrate how these dominant articulations discursively serve to garner support for the proposed shield by setting the parameters around which discussions of missile defense can take place. My primary argument is that the discursive unities made by the Bush Administration out of such elements as terrorism, technology, progress, and capitalism functions to perpetuate and justify a larger American project of exceptionalism, unilateralism, and military hegemony.

scholarly journals Vingt-cinq ans d’études stratégiques – Essai critique et survol de la documentation

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 727-749
Author(s):  
Albert Legault
Keyword(s):  
Outer Space ◽  
Ballistic Missile ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
Ecological Consequences ◽  
The Past ◽  
Potential Increase ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ballistic Missile Defense

This article attempts to identify the great issues which have formed the mainstay of the strategic literature over the past twenty-five years. Its is essentially designee to acquaint the student with the major works and debates which have been published or discussed over the same period of time. The only new debates seem to bear on the ecological consequences of a nuclear war, and on the resurgence of the pacifist movements. The last section deals with the major issues of the future, such as outer space, ballistic missile defense, and the potential increase of the risks of a conventional war due to the progress of technology.

Systems Engineering Plan for Navy Theater-Wide Theater Ballistic Missile Defense (TBMD). Volume 1. System Requirements Engineering

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter J. Stafford ◽  
Kniceley Jr. ◽  
Monteith Roger L. ◽  
Kimbrell Gregory E. ◽  
Jones Thomas W. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Ballistic Missile ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
Ballistic Missile Defense ◽  
System Requirements
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