ABSTRACT
By Spring 1970, US weapons technology had advanced to the point of developing the capability of arming individual strategic missiles with multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles. International peacekeeping forces as well as national military establishments could benefit from such technology by obtaining early warning of potential aggression. Just as technology has contributed to the arms race—the raison dêtre of which resides, at bottom, with technology—so also might technology contribute to the peace race. In particular, technology can be helpful insofar as it assists the world community and its constituent polities to become more anticipatory and preventive rather than merely reactive in the execution of security strategy. One has but to reflect on the role of the machine gun or the introduction of aircraft into World War I to appreciate the downside of nearly every alternative security technology.
