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Strategic defence after the cold war

The Strategic Defense Initiative has been out of the news recently, but its scientific and political proponents still exist. Should the United States be thinking differently about defence in this era of glasnost ?

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Brower, M. Strategic defence after the cold war. Nature 347, 326–328 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/347326a0

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