21st Century Complete Guide to Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD): Star Wars SDI Program, including Threats, Sensors, History, Boost, Midcourse, and Terminal Defense Segments, Patriot, Intercept Tests, Aegis Navy Systems, EKV, and the Joint National Integration Center [CD-ROM]

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Book Description

Publication Date: January 2003

This incredible CD-ROM provides a comprehensive guide to America's ongoing Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) program, run by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). Formerly known as the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and called "Star Wars" by the media and critics, the BMD program will use a layered defense to protect against ballistic missile attack. President Bush recently authorized the deployment of the first element of this system in 2004. This detailed material is heavily illustrated with color photographs, drawings, tables, and charts.

Topics covered include:

* Threats
* Sensors
* History
* ABM Treaty Implications
* Boost, Midcourse, and Terminal Defense Segments
* Ground-based Interceptors, Sea-based Interceptors
* Patriot (PAC-3) units
* Intercept Tests
* Upgraded Early Warning Radars(UEWRs)
* In-flight Interceptor Communications System (IFICS)
* Battle Management, Command, Control, and Communications (BMC3)
* THAAD, MEADS, ARROW
* Aegis Navy Systems
* Comprehensive Glossary
* Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle
* Airborne Laser
* Joint National Integration Center
* Environmental Assessment of Impact of Missile Base in Fort Greely, Alaska
* Much more

Over 26,000 pages are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included. There is also an extensive collection of images in JPG and PDF formats, and AVI and MOV movie files.

This newly revised, updated, and expanded book-on-a-disc makes a great reference work and educational tool. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and portable - everything you need to know, from the federal sources you trust.

Our CD-ROMs are privately-compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are.

Product Details

• CD-ROM: 26597 pages
• Publisher: Progressive Management (January 2003)
• ISBN-10: 1592481167
• ISBN-13: 978-1592481163
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,483,095 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save the $$$ and use Google instead, August 6, 2003

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This review is from: 21st Century Complete Guide to Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD): Star Wars SDI Program, including Threats, Sensors, History, Boost, Midcourse, and Terminal Defense Segments, Patriot, Intercept Tests, Aegis Navy Systems, EKV, and the Joint National Integration Center (CD-ROM)

Don't overlook the fact that this is a CD-ROM, not a book. That could be considered an innovative delivery mechanism, especially for the various movies (".mov" and ".avi") that are included. From the README on the disk though, you'll learn that this is a "privately compiled collection of public domain U.S. Government Documents". Translation: "We're charging you for putting stuff you could get for free onto CD-ROM". I guess that saves you cruising the net yourself, but I'd recommend doing a web search over actually paying for this collection of otherwise free government information.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointment, January 6, 2005

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Riley D. Newman (Irvine, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 21st Century Complete Guide to Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD): Star Wars SDI Program, including Threats, Sensors, History, Boost, Midcourse, and Terminal Defense Segments, Patriot, Intercept Tests, Aegis Navy Systems, EKV, and the Joint National Integration Center (CD-ROM)

I had hoped to use this CD in preparing a course "Physics of Weapons and Their Control" for non-science majors, but found it next to useless for my purposes. It contains perhaps 200 images, each with no identification other than a file name like "pic7.jpg", and thousands of pages of government documents with no index or useful table of contents (its "table of contents" simply names 4 groups of documents averaging over 6000 pages each). It advises the user to use Adobe's search function to find information of use. For me it was useless.