NATO and the Strategic Defence Initiative

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