NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative

This book explores the largely neglected issue of responses to the US Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI, or the 'Star Wars' missile defence programme) across NATO.

Luc-André Brunet is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary International History, The Open University, and Co-Director of the Peace and Security Project at LSE IDEAS, UK.

Introduction: The Strategic Defence Initiative and the Atlantic Alliance in the 1980s, Part 1: SDI and the Superpowers, 2. Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative, 3. The Soviet Response to the Strategic Defense Initiative, Part 2: Government Decision-making behind SDI Participation, 4. Britain, SDI and the United States, 1983-6: A Guarded Relationship, 5. Germany and SDI, 1983-86: Anchoring US Extended Nuclear Deterrence and Westbindung for an Offence-Defence Future, 6. Italy and the SDI Project: Envisioning a Technological Breakthrough for the Whole Alliance?, Part 3: NATO Governments' Rejection of SDI, 7. France's Reaction Towards the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-1986): Transforming a Strategic Threat into a Technological Opportunity, 8. Canada's "Polite No" to the SDI: A Question of Sovereignty?, 9. The Netherlands and SDI, 1983-87: We Have to Do the Research, 10. Danish and Norwegian Responses to the SDI: Between Low-Voiced Scepticism and Outspoken Opposition, Part 4: Civil Society and the Peace Movement, 11. The SDI: A Further Challenge for the US Anti-Nuclear Movement?, 12. SDI as a Contested Imaginary in British Culture and Society: 'Winning in Space', 13. British and International Peace Campaigning against the Strategic Defence Initiative: Folly's Comet, 14. Star Wars: Views from the Commentariat