Strategic Defense Initiative examines developments in the technologies currently being researched under SDI. The OTA does not repeat the work of its earlier reports but gives special attention to filling in gaps in those reports and to describing technical progress made in the intervening period. The report also presents information on the prospects for functional survival against preemptive attack of alternative ballistic missile defense system architectures now being considered under the SDI. Finally, it analyzes the feasibility of developing reliable software to perform the battle management tasks required by such system architectures. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
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By:
Office of the Technology Assessment
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 4153
Dimensions:
Height: 279mm,
Width: 216mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 964g
ISBN: 9780691632926
ISBN 10: 0691632928
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 28 June 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
*FrontMatter, pg. i*Foreword, pg. v*Office of Technology Assessment, pg. vi*Advisory Panel on SDI: Technology, Survivability, and Software, pg. vii*OTA Project Staff-SDI: Technology, Survivability, and Software. Acknowledgments, pg. viii*Workshop on Soviet Response to SDI, January 1987. Workshop on SDI Software, January 1987, pg. ix*Office of Technology Assessment, pg. x*Contents, pg. xi*Preface, pg. xii*Chapter 1. Summary, pg. 1*Chapter 2. Introduction, pg. 29*Chapter 3. Designing a BMD System: Architecture and Trade-off Studies, pg. 47*Chapter 4. Status and Prospects of Ballistic Missile Defense Technologies, Part I: Sensors, pg. 71*Chapter 5. Ballistic Missile Defense Technology: Weapons, Power, Communications, and Space Transportation, pg. 103*Chapter 6. System Development, Deployment, and Support, pg. 157*Chapter 7. System Integration and Battle Management, pg. 177*Chapter 8. Computing Technology, pg. 197*Chapter 9. Software, pg. 219*Chapter 10. Non-Destructive Countermeasures to Ballistic Missile Defense, pg. 251*Chapter 11. Defense Suppression and System Survivability, pg. 253*Chapter 12. Defense Suppression Scenarios, pg. 255*Appendixes, pg. 257
