• Title: Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative
• Author(s) Aaron Bateman
• Publisher: The MIT Press; Standard Edition (May 7, 2024); eBook (Creative Commons Licensed)
• License(s): Creative Commons License (CC)
• Paperback: 336 pages
• eBook: PDF and ePub
• Language: English
• ISBN-10/ASIN: 0262547368
• ISBN-13: 978-0262547369
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Book Description

A new and provocative take on the formerly classified history of accelerating superpower military competition in space in the late Cold War and beyond.

This book shows how tension over the role of military space technologies in American statecraft was a central source of Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) controversy, even more so than questions of technical feasibility.

• Aaron Bateman is Assistant Professor of History and International Affairs at George Washington University.

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