The International History of the Strategic Defense Initiative: American Influence and Economic Competition in the Late Cold War

Westwick, Peter J.

doi:10.1111/j.1600-0498.2010.00197.x

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“…Closer to our times, the xray laser, a centerpiece of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, drew key concepts from the attendance by a Livermore physicist at a Soviet laser conference. 13 Nuclear weapons offer another example. The Manhattan Project had key contributions from British scientists and European Jewish emigrés, not to mention the training in quantum and nuclear physics that many U.S. scientists had received in European universities.…”

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Lessons from Stealth for Emerging Technologies

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2021

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Stealth technology was one of the most decisive developments in military aviation in the last 50 years. With U.S. technological leadership now under challenge, especially from China, this issue brief derives several lessons from the history of Stealth to guide current policymakers. The example of Stealth shows how the United States produced one critical technology in the past and how it might produce others today.

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confidence: 99%