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Original Articles

Towards an Ideal Weapon? Military and Political Implications of the Airborne and Space-based Lasers

Pages 73-87 | Published online: 02 Jul 2010

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  • June 1998 . "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Boost Phase Intercept Program" ” . June , Washington DC : Department of Defense . BMDO Factsheet TO-98-06,
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  • Seigle , Greg . 2000 . "US Congress Bid to Save ABL Cash from Budget Axe" . Jane's Defence Weekly , 3 February
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  • Thompson , Loren . 1999 . "Give Airborne Laser Fair Shot at Missile Defense Role" . Defense News , 11 October
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  • Scott , William B. 1999 . "'Beam' Weapons Edging into Arsenal" . Aviation Week and Space Technology , 5 July : 53 – 5 .
  • Rogers , Paul . 1988 . "The Transformation of War: The Real Implications of the SDI" ” . In Military Technology, Armaments Dynamics and Disarmament , Edited by: Gunter Brauch , Hans . London and New York : Macmillan .
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  • Lennox , Duncan . 1996 . "Ballistic Missiles" . Jane's Defence Weekly , 17 April : 40 – 4 .
  • Gertz , Bill . 1994 . "Scud's Bigger Brothers" . Air Force Magazine , June : 52 – 7 . See also
  • Mosher , David E. 1997 . "Ballistic Missile Defense - The Grand Plans" . IEEE Spectrum , September : 28 – 39 .
  • Ibid
  • Fulghum , David A. 1993 . "Small Clus ter ted Munitions May Carry Nuclear Wastes" . Aviation Week and Space Technology , 10 October : 61
  • Ibid
  • 1999 . "World News Round Up" . Aviation Week and Space Technology , 18 January
  • Fulghum , David A . 1998 . "New Weapons Slowed By Secrecy Clampdown" . Aviation Week and Space Technology , 19 January : 54 – 6 .
  • 1998 . "USSSPACECOM Long Range Plan Summary" . US Space Command Directorate of Public Affaira , 7 April
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  • Rogers , Paul . 1998 . "Responding to Western Intervention, Conventional and Unconventional Options" . Defense Analysis , 14 ( 1 ) For a discussion of asymmetric warfare options, see
  • Grant , Rebecca . 1998 . "Khobar Towers" . Air Force Magazine , June For details of the bombing, see
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  • McMichael , William H. 1999 . "Desert Stronghold" . Air Force Magazine , February
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  • Air Force Research Laboratory Office of Public Affairs Fact Sheet . January 1998 . Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser (COIL) , January , New Mexico : Kirtland Air Force Base .
  • Air Force Research Laboratory Office of Public Affaire Fact Sheet 98-18 . 4 May 1998 . Airborne Laser Passes Design Milestone , 4 May , New Mexico : Kirtland Air Force Base .
  • Wall , Robert . 1999 . "ABL Hopes Advances Will Silence Critics" . Aviation Week and Space Technology , 20 September : 62 – 3 .
  • 2000 . "World News Round-up" . Aviation Week and Space Technology , 31 January
  • Starr , Barbara . 1995 . "USAF Plans to Field ABL Demonstrator by 2002" . Jane's Defence Weekly , 1 July : 13
  • Mulholland , David . 1999 . "ABL Tests Delayed by $25 Million in Budget Cuts" . Defense News , 15 March
  • Fulghum , David A. 1997 . "Airborne Laser Tested, Weighed for New Missions" . Aviation Week and Space Technology , 27 October : 26 – 7 . Ibid.; see also Tirpak, op. cit., and
  • 26 June 1998 . "Directed Energy Study Kicks Off" ” . In Air Force Research Laboratory of Public Affairs DE Release No. 98-32 , 26 June , New Mexico : Kirtland Air Force Base .
  • Ibid
  • Ibid
  • Ibid
  • July 1998 . "Space-Based Laser" ” . In BMDO Fact Sheet TO-98-01 , July , Washington : Department of Defense .
  • Wall , Robert . 1999 . "Space-Based Missile Defense Program Crystallizing" . Aviation Week and Space Technology , 16 August : 73 – 4 .
  • Mann , Paul . 1998 . "Washington Watch - B-X in Space?" . Aviation Week and Space Technology , 31 August : 21

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