BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE

May  2009

Compiled by Bibliography Branch
Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center
Maxwell AFB, AL

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Internet Resources

Federation of American Scientists:  Ballistic Missile Defense. 
Available online at:  http://www.fas.org/nsp/bmd/
Includes programs, treaty resources, and policy documents.

GlobalSecurity.org:  Ballistic Missile Defense Programs.
Available online at:  http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/bmd.htm

The Heritage Foundation:  Ballistic Missile Defense. 
Available online at:  http://www.heritage.org/research/ballisticmissiledefense/
Papers and reports.

Hildreth, Steven A. and Ek, Carl.  Long-Range Ballistic Missile Defense in Europe.  Washington, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 2009.  21 p.  (CRS Report for Congress, RL34051).
Available online at:  http://opencrs.com/getfile.php?rid=80415

Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA). 
Available online at:  http://www.missiledefenseadvocacy.org/default.aspx
MDAA is a non-profit organization launched in 2002 to advocate for the deployment and development of a missile defense system.  Offers information on missile defense news, proliferation, threats, headlines, and testing.

NuclearFiles:  Project of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.  Missile Defense. 
Available online at:  http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/missile-defense/
Introduction, issues and history of missile defense.

O'Rourke, Ronald.  Sea-Based Ballistic Missile Defense:  Background and Issues for Congress.  Washington, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 2008.  57 p.  (CRS Report for Congress, RL33745).
Available online at:  http://opencrs.com/getfile.php?rid=65815

United States.  Department of Defense.  Missile Defense Agency. 
Available online at:  http://www.mda.mil/mdalink/html/mdalink.html
Includes news, reports, fact sheets, images, Congressional testimony, and budget information.

Books

Chun, Clayton K. S.  Thunder over the Horizon:  From V-2 Rockets to Ballistic Missiles.  Westport, CT, Praeger Security International, 2006.  221 p.
Book call no.:  621.4356 C559t

Hey, Nigel.  The Star Wars Enigma:  Behind the Scenes of the Cold War Race for Missile Defense.  Washington, Potomac Books, 2006.  275 p.
Book call no.:  358.174 H615s

Lakoff, Sanford A.  Strategic Defense in the Nuclear Age:  Reference Handbook .  Westport, CT, Praeger Security International, 2007.  180 p.
Book call no.:  358.1740973 L192s

Mantle, Peter J.  The Missile Defense Equation:  Factors for Decision Making.  Reston, VA, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2004.  450 p.
Book call no.:  358.174 M292m

Pinkston, Daniel A.  The North Korean Ballistic Missile Program.  Carlisle Barracks, PA, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2008.  95 p.
Also available online at:  http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/PUB842.pdf
Book call no.:  358.17182 P655n

Rubel, John H.  Doomsday Delayed:  USAF Strategic Weapons Doctrine and SIOP-62, 1959-1962:  Two Cautionary Tales.  Lanham, MD, Hamilton Books, 2008.  67 p.
Book call no.:  355.80973 R894d

Scobell, Andrew and Sanford, John M.  North Korea’s Military Threat:  Pyongyang’s Conventional Forces, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Ballistic Missiles.  Carlisle, PA, Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2007.  177 p.
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA466538
Book call no.:  358.3095193 S421n

Staples, Steven.  Missile Defence:  Round One.  Toronto, J. Lorimer, 2006.  248 p.
Book call no.:  358.1740971 S794m

United States.  Missile Defense Agency.  2006 Strategic Intent of the Missile Defense Agency.  Washington, Missile Defense Agency, 2006.  25 p.
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA465871
Book call no.:  358.174 U584t

Documents

Hildreth, Steven A.  Ballistic Missile Defense:  Historical Overview.   Washington, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 2007.  6 p.  (CRS report for Congress, RS22120)
Also available online at:  http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RS22120.pdf
Doc. call no.:  M-U 42953-1 no.07-RS22120

Hildreth, Steven A.  Iran's Ballistic Missile Programs:  An Overview.  Washington, Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 2009.  5 p.  (CRS report for Congress, RS22758)
Also available online at:  http://opencrs.com/getfile.php?rid=80407
Doc. call no.:  M-U 42953-1 no.RS22758

United States.  Government Accountability Office.  Ballistic Missile Defense:  Actions Needed to Improve Process for Identifying and Addressing Combatant Command Priorities.  Report to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives.  Washington, Government Accountability Office, 2008.  45 p.
Also available online at:  http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS100022
Doc. call no.:  M-U 41026-173 no.08-740

United States.  Government Accountability Office.  Defense Acquisitions:  Actions Needed to Ensure Adequate Funding for Operation and Sustainment of the Ballistic Missile Defense System.  Report to the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives.  Washington, Government Accountability Office, 2005.  31 p.
Also available online at:  http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS64171
Doc. call no.:  M-U 41026-173 no.05-817


Documents (Student Research)

Butler, Jeffrey T.  The Influence of Politics, Technology, and Asia on the Future of US Missile Defense.  Maxwell AFB, AL, Air University, 2006.  89 p.
Also available online at:  https://www.afresearch.org
Doc. call no.:  M-U 42252-91 B985i

Lesiw, Richard T.  The Future of the Ballistic Missile Submarine Force in the Russian Nuclear Triad.  Monterey, CA, Naval Postgraduate School, 2008.  75 p.
Also available online at:  http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA488721
Doc. call no.:  M-U 42525 L6291f

Periodicals

Ackerman, Robert K.  Asymmetric Missile Threats Loom on Horizon.  Signal 60:39-43 October 2005.
Describes a research report on a proposed asymmetric missile defense grid providing early warning and interception of incoming ballistic and cruise missiles.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=913761461&sid=3&Fmt=4&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Ackerman, Robert K.  Ballistic Missile Threats Aim to Overcome U.S. Defensive Measures.  Signal 62:23-24 March 2008.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1454015081&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Ackerman, Robert K.  The Changing Nature of Missile Defense:  As Enabling Technologies Mature, the Threat Becomes More Complex.  Signal 62:18-22 March 2008.
Current efforts of U.S. missile defense are focusing more on emerging rogue nation threats than the large-scale missile attacks feared during the Cold War.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1454015071&sid=2&Fmt=3&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Ackerman, Robert K.  Laser Defense Outlook Brightens:  Longtime Research, New Technologies Bring Reality Closer.  Signal 62:33-37 March 2008.
Discusses the use of laser systems as protection from threats including nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1454015101&sid=2&Fmt=3&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Ackerman, Robert K.  The Nature of the Missile Threat.  Signal 60:42-43 October 2005.
Discusses the need to enhance a proposed asymmetric missile defense network.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=913761631&sid=3&Fmt=3&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

BMD and C-RAM for Israel.  Military Technology 32, no. 8:34-37 2008.
Interview with Major General Isaac Ben-Israel, a professor at Tel Aviv University discussing the anti-ballistic missile defenses of Israel.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=34060149&site=ehost-live

BMD:  Ballistic Missile Defence in/for South Korea--Prospects and Possibilities.  Military Technology 32, no. 9:104-106 2008.

Boese, Wade.  Anti-Missile Systems Uncertainty Grows.  Arms Control Today 38:42-43 December 2008.
Discusses the future of U.S. anti-missile projects particularly in Europe.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1624448111&sid=6&Fmt=3&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Boese, Wade.  U.S. Signs European Anti-Missile Deals.  Arms Control Today 38:34-36 September 2008.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1567063111&sid=6&Fmt=3&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Cimbala, Stephen J.  Russian and US Missile Defenses:  Continuing Contention or Possible Progress?  European Security 17:435-453 December 2008.

Cirincione, Joseph.  The Incredible Shrinking Missile Threat.  Foreign Policy 166:69-70 May-June 2008.
Contends U.S. growing budget requests for missile defense is not needed due to a declining threat.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1475699261&sid=6&Fmt=3&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Coyle, Philip E.  Missile Defense and the Czech Republic.  The Defense Monitor 37:6-8 March-April 2008.
Author's advice regarding the installation of the proposed U.S. missile defense system.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=32114683&site=ehost-live

de Hoop Scheffer, Jaap.  European and American Missile Defence Perspectives.  Military Technology 32, no. 8:12-13 2008.
Summarizes perspectives on U.S. and European ballistic missile defenses discussed at the 2008 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit in Bucharest, Romania.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=34060144&site=ehost-live

DeBiaso, Peppino A.  Missile Defense and NATO Security.  Joint Force Quarterly 51:46-51 October 2008.
Discusses the use of missile defenses to provide security to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=34410301&site=ehost-live

Garrett, Joseph G. and Franklin, Peter.  A Case for Global Ballistic Missile Defence.  Military Technology 31, no. 8:41-43 2008.
Discusses increased security for the U.S. and its allies due to the global deployment of antimissile systems.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=26434341&site=ehost-live

Gormley, Dennis M.  Missile Contagion.  Survival 50:137-154 August-September 2008.
Discusses defenses against ballistic missiles, the costs and belief that land-attack cruise missiles pose a greater problem.
Also available online at:  http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0039%2d6338&volume=50&issue=4&spage=137

Hicks, Alan B.  Seabased Ballistic Missile Defense.  Joint Force Quarterly No. 50:39-45 2008.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=34410273&site=ehost-live

Kenyon, Henry S.  Japan Acquires Missile Defense Shield:  New Capability Provides Security from Hostile States but Challenges Remain for Coalition Operations.  Signal 62:27-30 March 2008.
Japan becomes the first foreign nation to field a sea-based ballistic missile interception system.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1454015091&sid=2&Fmt=3&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Kenyon, Henry S.  Warfighters Gain Missile Defense Capability.  Signal 61:69-71 July 2007.
Discusses the U.S. Army developing a networkcentric system to connect and manage its air defense systems.
Also available online at:  http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1303744791&sid=4&Fmt=3&clientId=417&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Kozin, Vladimir P.  NATO and Russia Square Off over US BMD (Ballistic-Missile Defence).  Jane's International Defence Review 40:28-29 July 2007.

Lennox, Duncan.  On the Defensive:  The Future of US Ballistic Missile Defence.  Jane's Intelligence Review 19:40-45 August 2007.

Lundquist, Edward.  Stellar Partnership:  The U.S. and Japan are Working Together to Develop Ballistic Missile Defense Capabilities.  C4ISR 7:38-41 April 2008.

Missile Defence:  The Alliance Perspective.  Military Technology 32, no. 8:19-25 2008.
Discusses the deployment of the "Third Site" missile defense project, which was intended to counter ballistic missiles from Iran and other Middle Eastern states, in Czech Republic and Poland.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=34060146&site=ehost-live

NATO Agrees on Missile Defence Way Forward.  Military Technology 31, no. 8:36-37 2008.
Discusses the agreed assessment of the political and military implications of the allied U.S. missile defense system to be established in Europe.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=26434339&site=ehost-live

Obering, Henry A.  Missile Defence Programme:  A Status Report.  Military Technology 31, no. 8:28-35 2008.
Focuses on the developments of the missile defense program in the United States in 2006.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=26434338&site=ehost-live

Rood, John C.  BMD after the Bucharest NATO Summit.  Military Technology 32, no. 8:14-19 2008.
Discusses the threats posed by nuclear missile proliferation, the importance of ballistic missile defenses, and the "Third Site" missile defense system installed in Czech Republic and Poland.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mth&AN=34060145&site=ehost-live

Samson, Victoria and Schwellenbach, Nick.  Spiraling Out of Control:  How Missile Defense's Acquisition Strategy is Setting a Dangerous Precedent.  Defense & Security Analysis 24:203-211 June 2008.
Examines the risks of not having product development standards in the acquisition policy of spiral development of missile defense systems.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=32708082&site=ehost-live

Scott, Richard.  Briefing:  AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense.  Jane's Defence Weekly 46:22-24+ January 7, 2009.

Sessions, Jeff.  Ballistic Missile Defense:  A National Priority.  Strategic Studies Quarterly 2:22-30 Summer 2008.

Slocombe, Walter B.  Europe, Russia and American Missile Defence.  Survival 50:19-24 April-May 2008.
Discusses controversies of the U.S. ballistic missile defense program including differences over Iran and the European suspicions of American unilateralism and militarism.

US Missile Defence Spreading to Europe.  Military Technology 31, no. 8:38-40 2008.
Discusses the proposed U.S. missile defense program sites in Poland and Czech Republic for U.S. mainland defense against missiles from Iran.
Also available online at:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=26434340&site=ehost-live

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