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Missile Defense - What It Is Designed For and How It Is Understood
Volume 11, Issue 1 (2013), pp. 29–53
Daivis Petraitis  

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https://doi.org/10.2478/v10243-012-0022-3
Pub. online: 20 December 2013      Type: Article      Open accessOpen Access

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20 December 2013

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This study will discuss briefly the history of missile defense, the concept of its design, created by a pioneer of the system—the USA—, as well as differences and similarities of three different and more or less functional missile defense systems existing today. The indirect influence and impact of a missile defense system to defense policies and international relations will be presented in brief as well. Additionally, the following points of popular discussion will be addressed: the potential of missile defense to substitute nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence and its role as an instrument of propaganda and pretext to justify actions will be discussed in more detail. At the end of the study, based on all the prior-named features of the missile defense system organization design and known differences of existing US, NATO and Russian missile defense systems, the feasibility of the creation of a single missile defense system, proposed by Russia, will be explored.

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