ABSTRACT
Estimates of the potential costs of alternative strategic defense systems should be an intrinsic element in decisions about whether the US should develop and deploy these systems, especially because of the ''opportunity costs' 'involved-what the nation would have to forgo in other military or civilian programs or in private resources because of higher taxes or larger deficits. In this book, the authors describe four notional strategic defense systems, each with a different ambitious objective, and then estimate their costs
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|86 pages
Costs of Notional Strategic Defense Systems
chapter 2|6 pages
Notional Strategic Defense System Beta
Defense of Nuclear Retaliatory Forces plus a Partial Population Defense Against Small Attacks
chapter 3|21 pages
Notional Strategic Defense System Gamma
A Comprehensive Defense Using Space-Based Missile Interceptors
chapter 4|9 pages
Notional Strategic Defense System Delta
A Comprehensive Defense Using Space-Based Laser Weapons
part 2|42 pages
Strategic Defense Costs in Perspective