The origins of SDI, 1944--1983
The most distinctive and important contribution of this new book on the Strategic Defense Initiative is that it ends where most other studies begin, with President Ronald Reagan's famous (or infamous, depending on one's perspective) March 1983 speech that introduced the Star Wars concept. In taking this approach, Donald R. Baucom - a former Air Force historian who has been the official historian who has been the official historian of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization since May 1987 - helps to correct the common misperception that US efforts in strategic defense began and ended with the SDI. Although Baucom tells us that The Origins of SDI is a significantly revised version of an SDIO study he completed in 1989, representing his own views and not those of the SDIO, the reader should be warned that the book reads like an official history. It is often dry or too episodic and offers little that is new in the way of analysis or interpretation.
- OSTI ID:
- 6312609
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: From review by G. Allen Greb, Nuclear History Program, College Park, MD, in Science, Vol. 260, No. 5109 (7 May 1993)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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