NATO's Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missile Requirements and Their Relationship to the Strategic Defense Initiative
ResearchPublished 1987
This report attempts to structure the broad range of issues affecting the potential development of anti-tactical ballistic missile (ATBM) systems by evaluating the relationship among NATO's potential needs for ATBMs, the technologies under development in the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) program, and the political constraints in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), where ATBMs would be deployed. The authors conclude that planners attempting to improve NATO's air defenses and those attempting to advance SDI research goals are faced with distinctly different problems. Since NATO's requirements have little connection to SDI, an ATBM system intended to advance SDI goals must be based almost entirely on SDI objectives and could cause controversy in the FRG. Conversely, the limited systems of most interest to NATO stand outside the political debate.
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- Year: 1987
- Print Format: Paperback
- Paperback Pages: 65
- Paperback Price: $25.00
- Paperback ISBN/EAN: 978-0-8330-0892-3
- Document Number: R-3533-AF
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Rubenson, David and James Bonomo, NATO's Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missile Requirements and Their Relationship to the Strategic Defense Initiative, RAND Corporation, R-3533-AF, 1987. As of September 11, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3533.html
Rubenson, David and James Bonomo, NATO's Anti-Tactical Ballistic Missile Requirements and Their Relationship to the Strategic Defense Initiative. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1987. https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3533.html. Also available in print form.
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