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- W1580444067 abstract "Since President Reagan announced the Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983, U.S. policymakers have spent more than $100 billion and over 25 years pursuing Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) without reaching consensus on the issues of strategic prudence or technical capability. BMD Supporters and Opponents persistently disagree about the effect of pursuing BMD on the credibility of U.S. nuclear deterrence and arrive at divergent conclusions about the meaning of existing data for the eventual capability of a BMD system. Who is right? How does the pursuit and possession of BMD affect the credibility of U.S. nuclear deterrence? And what is the U.S. capability to build a BMD? Through analysis of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), I demonstrate that contrary to the Realist treatment of military power, the strategic prudence and technical capability of BMD are socially constructed and mutually constitutive terms. In short, neither BMD Supporters nor Opponents are “right.” Uncertainty about the strategic implications and eventual capability of BMD means that each group’s strategic and technical judgments are rooted in one of two hypothetical scenarios describing nuclear conflict. And not only do policymakers’ assessments of one term reaffirm the other over time, but those mutually constitutive assessments persistently frame the policy decisions that determine the material capability of BMD. My findings suggest policy recommendations for ending the polarized U.S. debate over BMD as well as contribute to scholarship on the necessary conditions for credible nuclear deterrence and the materialist treatment of military power." @default.
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- W1580444067 title "U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense: The Socially Constructed and Mutually Constitutive Nature of Strategic Prudence and Technical Capability" @default.
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