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Missing in Japan's Deterrence Debate

Aug 13, 2020

Following its decision to cancel the Aegis Ashore ballistic missile defense system, Japan is currently debating future deterrence capabilities. The debate over how Japan can defend itself is an important one, offering a major opportunity to shape the country's future defense posture.
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Where Russia Markets and Sells Advanced Conventional Weapons

Jun 11, 2021

Russia uses arms exports to further relations with other countries, influence their political and military leaders, and further its broader foreign and defense policy goals. A series of maps show the extent of its marketing, negotiating, and sales of key weapons systems.

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A New Methodology for Assessing Multilayer Missile Defense Options

Jan 1, 1994
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The Army's role in ballistic missile defense: a preliminary review of the prospects and issues

Jan 1, 1992
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The Geometry of a Satellite-Ballistic Missile Engagement

This Note describes in mathematical terms the dynamic geometry between a constellation of satellites deployed for ballistic missile defense (BMD) and the missiles the satellites are engaging.

Jan 1, 1988
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Limitations on tactical missile defenses: negotiated and otherwise

The launching of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative raises defense strategy issues surrounding the capabilities of antitactical ballistic missiles (ATBMs) and the U.S.-Soviet antiballistic missile treaty of 1972. This paper explores potential poli...

Jan 1, 1988
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Soviet interests, concerns, and activities with regard to ballistic missile defense

This paper is the text of a presentation at the Tutzing Workshop on the Political, Strategic-Operational, Economic and Psychological Aspects of the Program to Investigate Possibilities for Strategic Defense, held at Munich, West Germany, on December ...

Jan 1, 1987
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British and French Strategic Forces: Response Options to Soviet Ballistic Missile Defense

Briefly reviews the rationale for having these nuclear forces, current and potential strategic postures, and targeting capabilities and possibilities.

Jan 1, 1986
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Ballistic missile defense, ICBM modernization, and small strategic attacks: out of the frying pan?

After a decade of relative dormancy, the question of whether to deploy antimissile defenses has reemerged as the subject of intense debate. This paper suggests that any near-term U.S. ABM decision should pay equal heed to another consideration: the c...

Jan 1, 1983
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Some Comparisons among the Prim-Read Firing Doctrine and Two Others Designed To Hedge against Leakage Attacks

This report compares the Prim-Read, MEKR and MEDUA firing doctrines for ABM interceptors.

Jan 1, 1970
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Presidential Control of Force: The Korean War and the Cuban Missile Crisis

An analysis of the rationale and necessity for presidential direction and control of limited military conflicts, as demonstrated by the Korean experience and the Cuban missile crisis.

Jul 1, 1967
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"Shell Game" Aspects of Mobile Terminal ABM Systems

A two-person zero-sum game is used to model the mobile defense problem in order to examine, in the context of terminal ballistic missile defense, the advantages that accrue to the defender from being able to deny the attacker knowledge of the defense deployment.

Jan 1, 1967
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Preservation of Tactical Air Combat Potential in Western Europe: Guided Missile Defense Potential

An investigation of surface-to-air guided missiles as a means of augmenting Allied tactical air bases in Western Europe from 1955 to 1958.

Sep 15, 1954
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Jennifer Brookes

Physical Scientist
Education Ph.D. in physical chemistry, University of Washington; B.S. in chemistry & biology, University of Portland
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Cortez A. Cooper III

Senior International/Defense Researcher; Affiliate Faculty, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education M.A. in Asian Studies, University of Hawaii; B.A. in psychology, Davidson College
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Brian Dolan

Engineer
Education Ph.D. in aerospace engineering, University of Cincinnati; B.S. in mechanical and aerospace engineering, SUNY Buffalo
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Mel Eisman

Senior Operations Research Analyst
Education M.S.I.E. in operations research, Pennsylvania State University; B.S. in industrial engineering, State University of New York
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Dahlia Anne Goldfeld

Information Scientist
Education Ph.D. in chemical physics, Columbia University; M.A. in chemistry, Harvard University; B.A. in chemistry, Columbia University
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Mary Lee

Mathematician
Education Ph.D. in mathematics, University of California, Irvine
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Gary McLeod

Senior Policy Analyst
Education M.S. in astronomy, CalTech (California Institute of Technology); B.S. in physics, University of Minnesota
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George Nacouzi

Senior Engineer; Affiliate Faculty, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education B.S. in aero/astro engineering, CSU Poly (Pomona); M.S. in aerospace engineering, UCLA; Ph.D. in aerospace engineering, UCI
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Chad J. R. Ohlandt

Senior Engineer
Education Ph.D. in aerospace engineering and scientific computing, University of Michigan; M.S. in aerospace engineering, Pennsylvania State University; S.B. in astronautical engineering, M.I.T.

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