Trident - Rilegato

Dalgleish, D. Douglas; Schweikart, Larry

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0809311267 ISBN 13: 9780809311262

Casa editrice: Southern Illinois Univ Pr, 1984

Riassunto

While it was still in the development stage, Rear Admiral Albert Kelln pre­dicted that Trident would “Extend the seabased deterrent survivability we cur­rently enjoy into the 21st century.” On the other hand, the Congressional Re­search Service’s Brief on United States defense industrial preparedness con­tended that the Trident project appeared “to demonstrate all three categories of symptoms mentioned . . . delay, severe cost overruns, and poor workmanship.”

 

Dalgleish and Schweikart seek to re­solve these points of view by an in depth analysis of every aspect of the submarine program, including the political struggles involved in activating the program, the construction process, the vessel itself, improvements in submarine technology that will affect it, and descriptions of its base. They trace the history of the Trident submarine program from its be­ginning as a part of the “STRAT-X” study of 1967to the present. Because cost has so frequently been the overriding concern during the Trident’s development, the authors provide a cost comparison of the Trident system to several other systems. They conclude that on balance the Trident system has not been exceedingly costly.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

D. Douglas Dalgleish is a faculty mem­ber in the Department of Political Sci­ence at Arizona State University.

 

Larry Schweikart is a faculty member in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Southern Illinois Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0809311267
• ISBN 13: 9780809311262
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida