PGMs

Changing Weapon Priorities, New Risks, New Opportunities

James Digby

ResearchPosted on rand.org 1976Published in: Astronautics and Aeronautics, Vol. 14, Mar. 1976, p. 36-46

Discusses questions raised by the new wide availability of precision guided munitions (PGMs). Nonnuclear PGMs make smaller states and NATO more defensible, thus short-run stability is increased. PGMs will play an important part in making or countering a threat to use limited nuclear force.

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  • Copyright: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2007
  • Pages: 12
  • Document Number: EP-197603-01

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