Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bateman, Aaron

Titel

Weapons in space : technology, politics, and the rise and fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2024]

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references and index
• The "Other Night Sky" -- The Rise and Fall of Détente on Earth and in Space -- Campaign for the High Ground -- Out of the Black -- "Europe Must Not Leave Space to the Americans" -- Out of the Laboratory and into Space -- SDI and the New World Order -- SDI Reconsidered -- A Sense of Déjà Vu.
• "This is the first historical work that situates the Strategic Defense Initiative within a new phase in the militarization of space, uncovering a largely secret history of the role of military space technologies in late-Cold War U.S. defense strategy and foreign relations"--