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Mark A. Anderson (Cover photograph) Good in Good jacket. x, Footnotes. Tables. Figures. Chapters on: The Context, The Changing Meaning of Deterrence; Theater Missile Defense; The Legacy of SDI; National Missile Defense; and Missile Defense and U.S. Security Policy; Appendix A: List of the 13 Major Agreements Between the US and USSR from 1972 to 1979; Appendix B: Soviet Approaches to BMD: A Chronology; Appendix C: Chemical and Biological Weapons; Appendix D: Section of President Reagan's March 23, 1983 Speech Concerning Strategic Defense. Bibliography. DJ has some wear and soiling. Corners of some of the pages have been creased. David Denoon is professor of politics and economics at New York University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Committee on U.S. -China Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (London), the Asia Society, the U.S. -Indonesia Society, and is Co-Chairman of the Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Southeast Asia. He is also chairman of the Editorial Advisory Board of Great Decisions. Denoon is the author and editor of seven books, including Real Reciprocity: Balancing U.S. Economic and Security Policy in the Pacific Basin. He published a monograph titled The Economic and Strategic Rise of China and India and an edited volume, China: Contemporary Political, Economic, and International Affairs. Denoon received a Ph.D. from M.I.T. He has served in the Federal Government in three positions: program economist for USAID in Jakarta, vice president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, and deputy assistant secretary of defense. Missile defense technology being developed, tested and deployed by the United States is designed to counter ballistic missiles of all ranges-short, medium, intermediate and long. Since ballistic missiles have different ranges, speeds, size and performance characteristics, the Ballistic Missile Defense System is an integrated, "layered" architecture that provides multiple opportunities to destroy missiles and their warheads before they can reach their targets. The system's architecture includes: networked sensors (including space-based) and ground-and sea-based radars for target detection and tracking; ground-and sea-based interceptor missiles for destroying a ballistic missile using either the force of a direct collision, called "hit-to-kill" technology, or an explosive blast fragmentation warhead; and a command, control, battle management, and communications network providing the operational commanders with the needed links between the sensors and interceptor missiles. Missile defense elements are operated by United States military personnel from U.S. Strategic Command, U.S. Northern Command, U.S. Pacific Command, U.S. Forces Japan, U.S. European Command and others. The United States has missile defense cooperative programs with a number of allies, including United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Israel, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Poland, Italy and many others. The Missile Defense Agency also actively participates in NATO activities to maximize opportunities to develop an integrated NATO ballistic missile defense capability.
