The Implications of the Possible U.S. Introduction of Ballistic Missile Defence into the North American Air Defence System

Quarto, 108, wraps, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, appendix, usual library markings, small tears and pieces missing at spine. Abstract is in English and in French. Department of National Defence, Canada, Operational Research and Analysis Establishment ORAE Extra-Mural Paper No. 14. Ex-U.S. Institute of Peace Library. This study investigates the possibilities for the U.S. introduction of Ballistic Missile Defence into the North American Air Defence System. The study concludes that the technical advances may be sufficiently attractive as a means of defending the increasingly vulnerable U.S. ICBM force for the U.S. to consider abrogating, or renegotiating, ABM limitations at the 1982 Review Conference on the ABM Treaty. Scarce.