Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Extended Test Range (ETR)
Author: Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Extended Test Range (ETR)
Author: Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309216109
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
The Committee on an Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives set forth to provide an assessment of the feasibility, practicality, and affordability of U.S. boost-phase missile defense compared with that of the U.S. non-boost missile defense when countering short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missile threats from rogue states to deployed forces of the United States and its allies and defending the territory of the United States against limited ballistic missile attack. To provide a context for this analysis of present and proposed U.S. boost-phase and non-boost missile defense concepts and systems, the committee considered the following to be the missions for ballistic missile defense (BMD): protecting of the U.S. homeland against nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction (WMD); or conventional ballistic missile attacks; protection of U.S. forces, including military bases, logistics, command and control facilities, and deployed forces, including military bases, logistics, and command and control facilities. They also considered deployed forces themselves in theaters of operation against ballistic missile attacks armed with WMD or conventional munitions, and protection of U.S. allies, partners, and host nations against ballistic-missile-delivered WMD and conventional weapons. Consistent with U.S. policy and the congressional tasking, the committee conducted its analysis on the basis that it is not a mission of U.S. BMD systems to defend against large-scale deliberate nuclear attacks by Russia or China. Making Sense of Ballistic Missile Defense: An Assessment of Concepts and Systems for U.S. Boost-Phase Missile Defense in Comparison to Other Alternatives suggests that great care should be taken by the U.S. in ensuring that negotiations on space agreements not adversely impact missile defense effectiveness. This report also explains in further detail the findings of the committee, makes recommendations, and sets guidelines for the future of ballistic missile defense research.
Climate Science for Serving Society
Author: Ghassem R. AsrarPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400766920
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
This volume offers a comprehensive survey and a close analysis of efforts to develop actionable climate information in support of vital decisions for climate adaptation, risk management and policy. Arising from submissions and discussion at the 2011 Open Science Conference (OSC) of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP), the book addresses research and intellectual challenges which span the full range of Program activities.
The President's Strategic Defense Initiative
Author: Alternatives for Boost-phase Missile Defense
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428980105
Category : Antimissile missiles
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Mentally Disordered Offenders
Author: Robert HarrisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134679874
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Managing the Mentally Disordered Offender presses the case for better health care of mentally disturbed law breakers, and the need to divert them from unnecessary imprisonment. Mentally disordered offenders present particular problems in our society, which wants both to sympathise and to punish. How do we get the balance right between sympathy towards their illness and genuine worries about their offending behaviour? What do we do for - and about - people wo have been released from prison yet we suspect continue to pose risks to the safety of others? With specialist contributors from criminology, criminal justice, social work, probation practice and the law, Managing the Mentally Disordered Offender stresses the importance of professional cooperation in community-based services, whilst acknowledgin the psychologically demanding nature of working with mentally disordered people, and ther very real challenges of attempting to contain their wrongdoing without recourse to the repressiveness of imprisonment.
Antiair Warfare
Author: United States. Marine CorpsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Air defenses
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Arms & Explosives
Author: Alternatives for Future U.S. Space-launch Capabilities
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Launch vehicles (Astronautics)
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description