Ballistic Missile Defense - Paperbackby Ashton B. Carter (Editor), David N. Schwartz (Editor) " Defense against nuclear attack so natural and seemingly so compelling a goal has provoked debate for at least twenty years. Ballistic missle defense systems, formerly called antiballistic missile systems, offer the prospect of remedying both superpowers' alarming vulnerability to nuclear weapons by technological rather than political means. But whether ballistic missile defenses can be made to