1989 Guide to the Strategic Defense Initiative

The third annual edition of this guide brings you up-to-date on where the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization is investing its research and development dollars, which companies and institutions currently are active in the program, and how each major program segment has matured. Each program segment (and the technologies that drive it) is treated in exquisite detail. Complex technologies are explained in terms the non-engineer can understand, but are never corrupted by oversimplification. The guide provides a detailed picture of where SDI is going and where it has been. Contents: include: The Strategic Defense Initiative in 1987; Launching the SDI Program; Surveillance, Acquisition, Tracking, and Kill Assessment; Directed Energy Weapons; Kinetic Energy Weapons; Systems Analysis and Battle Management; Survivability, Lethality, and Key Technologies; Innovative Science and Technology; SDI and the Allies; Soviet Strategic Defense.