Weapons in Space: Technology, Politics, and the Rise and Fall of the Strategic Defense Initiative

In Weapons in Space, Aaron Bateman draws from recently declassified American, European, and Soviet documents to give an insightful account of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), situating it within a new phase in the militarization of space after the superpower détente fell apart in the 1970s. In doing so, Bateman reveals the largely secret role of military space technologies in late–Cold War US defense strategy and foreign relations.