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Partipants / Peformers
Overview
Call Number: V0378
Creator:
Hastorf, Albert H., 1920-
Creator:
Panofsky, Wolfgang K.H. (Wolfgang Kurt Hermann), 1919-2007
Creator:
Stanford Arms Control and Disarmament Forum.
Creator:
Stanford University
Creator:
Wood, Lowell.
Title: Strategic nuclear defense, feasible or fallible? A public forum [videorecording]
Dates: 198-?
Physical Description:
0.06 Linear feet 1 videotape (U-matic)
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
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[identification of item], Strategic Nuclear Defense, Feasible or Fallible? A Public Forum (V0378). Dept. of Special Collections
and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Scope and Contents note
Lowell Wood, Special Studies Group Leader, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and X-ray laser expert debates Wolfgang
Panofsky, Director, Stanford Linear Accelerator and Fellow, Center for International Security and Arms Control on the subject
of nuclear defense. Dr. Wood maintains that strategic defense does have technical support; that the emphasis on defense will
lead the human race away from the trap of nuclear destruction since the current policy of deterrence is extremely unstable.
Dr. Panofsky counters by pointing out that all studies have concluded that offense can always defeat defense, and that there
are too many technical problems with strategic defense to pursue it.
Access Terms
Deterrence (Strategy)
Nuclear weapons--United States.
United States--Defenses.
General Note
Taped at Stanford University?
Partipants / Peformers
Moderator: Albert Hastorf.