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Science 21 July 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5478, p. 397
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5478.397
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STRATEGIC POLICY:
Selling a Dream Defense

Andrew M. Sessler

Way Out There in the Blue Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War
Frances FitzGerald
Simon and Schuster, New York, 2000. 592 pp. $30, C$43.50. ISBN 0-684-84416-8.

In this history, Fitzgerald shows how Reagan's political skills created and nurtured a multi-billion-dollar research program to build a perfect shield against Soviet nuclear weapons despite the seemingly critical flaw that the required technology was not remotely feasible.
The author is at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Mailstop 71-259, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. E-mail: amsessler{at}lbl.gov

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