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Guide to Strategic Nuclear Defense, Feasible or Fallible? A Public Forum [videorecording]
V0378  
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  • Overview
  • Administrative Information
  • Scope and Contents note
  • Access Terms
  • General Note
  • 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

    Administrative Information

    Information about Access

    The materials are open for research use. Audio-visual materials are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.

    Ownership & Copyright

    All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
    Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.

    Cite As

    [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.