Star Wars

Klappentext Shows how space technology is being used by the US military to create and control endless preventative war. Zusammenfassung Shows how space technology is being used by the US military to create and control endless preventative war.

Auteur

Loring Wirbel has been involved in military conversion & peace work for 25 years. He is currently editorial director for communications initiatives at CMP Media LLC, headquartered in New York & London. Wirbel worked with Mobilization for Survival in the American southwest on campaigns to end the mobile basing strategy for the MX missile, & to phase out Rocky Flats as a plutonium factory. His cover story on the National Security Agency for The Progressive magazine took a top Project Censored award in the early 1980s. A series on Reagan's Star Wars programs won a Scripps-Howard award.

Contenu

The birth of intelliegence policy and space use; civilian and military space policies,post-Sputnik; Star Wars, part 1 - safeguard, ABM and intelligence struggles in space; Star Wars, part 2 - the Reagan arms buildup; intelligence goesreal-time; military space policy, post challenger; BMDO, 3+3, and the new missile threat; "in your face from outer space"; permanent war; reclaiming multilateralism and peace in space.