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Title: SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative): technology, survivability, and software

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7077173

This report reviews the status of the various SDI technologies and system components. It analyzes the feasibility of producing dependable software of the complexity that advanced BMD systems would require. Finally, it summarizes what is now known, and unknown, about the probable survivability of such systems against concerted enemy attacks of various kinds.

Research Organization:
Office of Technology Assessment (U.S. Congress), Washington, DC
OSTI ID:
7077173
Report Number(s):
PB-88-236245/XAB; OTA-ISC-353
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Also available from Supt. of Docs.; Library of Congress catalog card no. 87-619857
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English