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Japan's Potential Acquisition of Ground-Launched Land-Attack Missiles: Implications for the U.S.-Japanese Alliance
If Japan acquired ground-based strike capabilities, it would have significant consequences for the U.S.-Japanese alliance. American and Japanese policymakers may need to have a new and expanded set of conversations about how such capabilities would be used and how the alliance could adjust to incorporate them.
Sep 9, 2021
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Weighing the Cost and Necessity of Nuclear Modernization
The United States has fielded a Triad of air-, sea-, and land-based nuclear delivery systems since the 1950s. Major components are nearing the end of their service lives, raising the question of whether to extend or replace them. Meanwhile, Russia and China continue to modernize, diversify, and expand their nuclear arsenals.
Jan 3, 2022

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Calculating the Utility of Attacks Against Ballistic Missile Transporter-Erector-Launchers
Calculating the utility of attacks against ballistic missile transporter-erector-launchers (TELs) associated with the proliferation of theater ballistic missiles (TBMs) can play a role in sharply reducing the prospective threat size.
Jan 1, 1995
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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
Report
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
Report
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
Report
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
Report
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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