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- Nuclear Explosions in Space: The Threat of EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse)
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- U.S. Strategic Nuclear Force Options
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- U.S.-Soviet Negotiations to Limit Intermediate-Range Nuclear Weapons
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- Trends in Conventional Arms Transfers to the Third World by Major Supplier, 1980-1987
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- Trends in Conventional Arms Transfers to the Third World by Major Supplier, 1980-1987
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- The Reagan Administration Posture Toward the ABM Treaty - Possible Implications
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- The Reagan Administration Posture Toward the ABM Treaty - Possible Implications
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- The Strategic Defense Initiative: Issues for Phase 1 Deployment
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- The Strategic Defense Initiative: Issues for Phase 1 Deployment
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- The Strategic Defense Initiative: Program Facts
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- The Strategic Defense Initiative: Program Facts
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- Chemical Warfare: A Primer on Agents, Munitions, and Defensive Measures
- The recent Department of Defense proposal to develop a capability to modernize and expand the current U.S. chemical warfare munition stocks with binary nerve agent munitions has focused attention on the subject of chemical warfare. This paper provides a brief introductory discussion of modern chemical warfare, describing the types of agents, delivery methods, and defense against chemical agents. It does not discuss policy, strategy, tactics, or disarmament aspects of chemical warfare. These issues w i l l be covered i n CRS Issue Brief IB 8l08l .
- Nuclear Weapons Freeze Movement: Issues for National Debate
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- Selected Articles and Bibliography on the Military Uses of Space
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- Space Issues
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- Cost Overruns in Major Weapon Systems: Current Dimensions of a Longstanding Problem
- This paper reviews the initiatives of the Reagan Administration to control cost overruns during the last 2 and a half years and the actions taken by the Congress to strengthen its oversight role. Particular attention is directed at the critical need to enhance management incentive and accountability at all level of the acquisition process. If recently instituted reform in the Department of Defense fail to control cost overruns, pressure may grow for a more sweeping and radical approach. Serious consideration in such an event might even be given to removing responsibility for weapons acquisition management for the military service and assigning it to a civilian-operated supply agency.
- The START Proposal: Verification Issues
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- Assessing the Options for Preserving ICBM Survivability
- The decision on how to redress the perceived vulnerability of U.S. intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMS) is the most controversial strategic nuclear weapon decision now facing the 97th Congress. A full-scale debate on this issue, especially as regards MX missile basing, seems certain. To assist Members of Congress in the debate, this paper discusses nine proposals for treating ICBM survivability: Recognize that ICBMs are invulnerable, rely only on bombers and submarines for deterrence, deploy a large or scaled-down shell-game multiple shelter system, defend MX with anti ballistic missiles, launch ICBMs on warning of attack, deploy MX on aircraft or small submarines, and diversify strategic forces, perhaps using small ICBMs.
- The MX Basing Debate: The Reagan Plan and Alternatives
- This report discusses the Reagan MX basing plan, and the FY82 Defense authorization bill.
- MX Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Program
- This report discusses the MX Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM),which is designed to be the most lethal strategic ballistic missile in the world. The missile was developed by the U.S. Air Force to augment the capabilities of the presently deployed ICBM force, which together with Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs) and manned strategic bomber aircraft form the triad of U.S. strategic nuclear offensive forces.
- Bomber Options for Replacing B52s
- One of the main issues discussed in this report is the replacement of the B-52 bombers, due to the fact that many believe that by 1990, the B-52's vulnerability to improving Soviet air defenses will imperil its effectiveness as a penetrating bomber.
- The Iran-Iraq War: Implications for U.S. Policy
- This report discusses the Iran-Iraq conflict at its present state, which has become a war of attrition with neither side capable of achieving a decisive military victory over the other in the short term. U.S. policy concerns currently are threefold: first, that Iraq, despite moves to sustain its economic and military capacities, ultimately might suffer a destabilizing defeat to the detriment of U.S. interests in the Persian Gulf region; second, that future instability in Iran could open opportunities for Soviet exploitation; and third, that the conflict might expand beyond its present confines to threaten friendly regional states and the availability of their vast petroleum resources.
- Antisatellites (Killer Satellites)
- This issue brief discusses "killer satellites," the unofficial moniker for antisatellite (ASAT) missiles possessed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as U.S. efforts to develop ASAT systems and simultaneously limit their development and use.
- Space Policy and Funding: Military Uses of Space
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- Increased U.S. Military Sales to China: Arguments and Alternatives
- The report examines the current debate in the United States over proposals for increased U.S. military sales to China. The study first examines the background of U.S.-China security ties since the Nixon Administration, and then sets forth the parameters of the current debate by noting a number of issues concerning U.S. military transfers to China on which all sides generally agree. It shows that Americans familiar with the issue tend to identify with different groups of opinion or "schools of thought" on the question of U.S. military transfers to China, and provides a detailed pro-con analysis of the issue. It concludes by noting cross pressures that are likely to greet U.S. policy makers as they grapple with this issue in the months ahead and offers an assessment of four policy options of possible use by U.S. policymakers.
- President Reagan's START Proposal: Projected U.S./U.S.S.R. Ballistic Missile Forces
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