Books and articles related to the missile defense debate.
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Butler, Richard. Fatal Choice: Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Missile Defense. Boulder: Westview Press, 2001.
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Denoon, David B.H. Ballistic Missile Defense in the Post-Cold War Era. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995.
Deutch, John, “The New Nuclear Threat.” Foreign Affairs, vol. 71, no. 4 (Fall 1992): 120-134.
Deutch, John, Arnold Kanter, and Brent Scowcroft. “Saving NATO’s Foundation.” Foreign Affairs (November-December 1999): 54.
Donovan, Frederick and James Goodby. “Changing the Rules: President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative Decision.” Pew Case Studies in International Affairs. Washington, D.C.: The Pew Charitable Trusts, 1991.
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. The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2003.
Drezner, Daniel W. “Ideas, Bureaucratic Politics, and the Crafting of Foreign Policy.” American Journal of Political Science, vol. 44, no. 4 (Oct 2000): 733-749.
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Eisendrath, Craig, Melvin A. Goodman, and Gerald E. Marsh. The Phantom Defense: America’s Pursuit of the Star Wars Illusion. The Center for International Policy. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2001.
Fetter, Steve. “Ballistic Missiles and Weapons of Mass Destruction: What is the Threat? What Should be Done?” International Security, vol. 16, no. 1 (Summer 1991): 5-42.
FitzGerald, Frances. Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the end of the Cold War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Fusion Energy Foundation. Beam Defense: An Alternative to Nuclear Destruction. Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers, Inc., 1983.
Frye, Alton. “Banning Ballistic Missiles.” Foreign Affairs (November-December 1996): 99.
Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.
Garrity, Patrick J. and Steven A. Maaranen, eds. Nuclear Weapons in the Changing World, Perspectives from Europe, Asia, and North America. New York: Plenum Press, 1992.
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. “The NATO Decision on Theatre Nuclear Forces.” Political Science Quarterly, no. 98 (Summer 1983).
Glaser, Charles L. “Why Even Good Defenses May Be Bad.” International Security (Fall 1984).
. “Do We Want the Defenses We Can Build?” International Security (Summer 1985).
Glaser, Charles L. and Steve Fetter. “Limited National and Allied Missile Defense.” International Security, vol. 26, no. 4 (Spring 2002): 196-201.
. “National Missile Defense and the Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy.” International Security, vol. 26, no. 1 (Summer 2001): 40-92.
Graham, Bradley. Hit to Kill: the New Battle Over Shielding America From Missile Attack. New York: Public Affairs, 2001.
Graham, Daniel O. Shall America Be Defended? SALT II and Beyond. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House Publishers, 1979.
Graham, Thomas W. and Bernard M. Kramer. “The Polls: ABM and Star Wars: Attitudes Toward Nuclear Defense, 1954-1985.” Public Opinion Quarterly, vol. 50, no. 1 (Spring 1986): 125-134.
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. Modern Strategy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Gromell, Robert H. “SDI and the Dynamics of Strategic Uncertainty.” Political Science Quarterly, vol. 102, no. 3 (August 1987): 481-500.
Haley, P. Edward and Jack Merritt, Strategic Defense Initiative: Folly or Future? Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1986.
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Holst, Johan J. “BMD and European Perspectives.” In Ballistic Missile Defense: Two Views. Adelphi Paper no. 43 (1967): 24-36.
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Ikle, C. F. “Can Nuclear Deterrence Last Out the Century?” Foreign Affairs, vol. 51, no. 2 (January 1973): 268- 285.
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. Every War Must End. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971.
Ivanov, Igor. “The Missile-Defense Mistake: Undermining Strategic Stability and the ABM Treaty.” Foreign Affairs, vol. 79, no. 5 (September/October 2000): 15-20.
Jaspers, Karl. The Future of Mankind. Translated by E.B. Ashton. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Jervis, Robert. “Arms Control, Stability, and Causes of War.” Political Science Quarterly, vol. 108, no. 2 (1993).
. “Weapons Without Purpose?” Foreign Affairs (July-August 2001): 143.
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, Richard Ned Lebow, and Janice Gross Stein. Psychology and Deterrence. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.
. The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1989.
. “The Nuclear Revolution and the Common Defense,” Political Science Quarterly 101:5, 1986, 689-703.
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