The Phantom Defense: America's Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion

by Gerald E. Marsh, Melvin A. Goodman, Craig R. Eisendrath

Book Overview

In the past four decades, the United States has spent $85 billion pursuing the fantasy of an effective missile defense system to shield our nation against the threat of a nuclear attack. Recent public tests, while less exotic than some of the original Star Wars proposals, were spectacular failures and call into question the whole program's rationale. Neither the land-based system proposed by the Clinton administration, nor the alternatives proposed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027597183X
• ISBN13: 9780275971830
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.6"