| Vindplaats: | A 3.78 |
| Titel: | MX |
| Auteur: | Herbert Scoville, jr. |
| Samenvatting: | The MX missile system now on the drawing boards will be the largest construction project in history. It requires the placement of intercontinental ballistic missiles, each equipped with ten nuclear warheads in constantly shifting patterns of underground deployment at sites that occupy vast tracks of land. This plan is a stratagem for disaster, Herbert Scoville argues. The scale of the MX deployment program almost defies comprehension. It can only be described by using the superlative case-the biggest, the most expensive, the most in everything except effectiveness."
In this book Scoville, who is President of the Arms Control Association and formerly a senior official in the Central Intelligence Agency, reveals the MX to be an unnecessary and extraordinarily expensive project that will not fulfill its original intent of deterring the Soviet Union. He points out that land-based missiles will still be vulnerable to a Soviet attack and may actually increase the risk of such an attack since the MX will lead to a new and accelerated arms race.
Scoville presents the complete history of the MX system from the Carter administration to the present. He describes security implications and the future of nuclear arms control; the cost in dollars, resources, and local social and environmental impact; and alternatives to the MX system through arms limitation or sea-basing.
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| Uitgever: | The MIT Press |
| Jaar van uitgave: | 1982 |
| Taal: | Engels |
| Aantal aanwezig: | 1 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0-262-69077-2 |
| Editie: | Third printing |
| Ondertitel: | Prescription for disaster |
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| Opmerkingen: | Enkele tabellen, grafieken, schema's en kaartjes in het boek. Achterin staat een index en een glossary |
| Aantal pagina's: | 231 |
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| Trefwoorden: | MX-raket systeem, Soviet Unie, Verenigde Staten, president Carter, kernwapens, wapenwedloop, veiligheid, |