Strategic Defense and International Stability.

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Subject Categories: ANTIMISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS MILITARY OPERATIONS, STRATEGY AND TACTICS
Corporate Author: CENTER FOR NATIONAL SECURITY STUDIES LOS ALAMOS NM
Title: Strategic Defense and International Stability.
Personal Authors: Weltman, John J.; Quester, George H.; Waltz, Kenneth N.; Hoffman, Fred S.; Hunter, Stephen E.
Report Date: 01 NOV 1988
Pages: 59 PAGES
Report Number: DE89-013899
Monitor Acronym: XO
Monitor Series: XD
Descriptors: *ANTIMISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEMS, *GEOPOLITICS, GUIDED MISSILES, STABILITY, MILITARY STRATEGY, UNITED STATES, POLICIES, NATIONAL SECURITY, ARMS CONTROL, STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.
Identifiers: BMDO COLLECTION, U02208
Abstract: These papers grew out a workshop on Strategic Defenses and international Stability held at Los Alamos on October 30, 1987. The workshop was sponsored by the Center for National Security Studies of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The purpose of the workshop was to present a broad discussion of the relationship between stability and defenses against ballistic missiles. A range of views about the relationship exists in policy circles in the United States and among our allies, and this range was reflected in the presentations by a panel of experts. The term "stability" has a number of specific meanings when used in public discussion of strategic matters. This report first examines these different meanings--deterrence stability, crisis stability, arms control stability, and alliance stability-in the context of historical and contemporary strategic problems. Each member of the panel of experts then, in turn, assesses the effects of strategic defenses on stability for each of the meanings given above.
Limitation Code: APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Source Code: 424362
Citation Creation Date: 03 JUN 1998