The incipient technology available for space-based lasers and the missions they could accomplish may change the nature of strategic competition and the perceptions of the strategic balance, particularly when that technology is integrated with other uses of space. This and other proposed uses of space for active military purposes requires an understanding of the strategic/political contexts of space as well as the essential legal or technical approaches to it that have been prevalent in Washington DC to date.


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    Title :

    Strategic Implications of Space-Based Lasers


    Contributors:
    D. Goure (author) / T. Blau (author) / J. Cooper (author) / M. Vlahos (author) / J. Combemale (author)

    Publication date :

    1981


    Size :

    60 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English