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Surveillance and Reconnaissance

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By 1962, and probably even earlier, the USA had detailed information on the number and location of Russian strategic missiles. In 1967 President Johnson stated that satellite reconnaissance was worth ten times the money the USA had spent in space. He suggested that this knowledge had prevented the country from harboring fears that otherwise may have arisen. From the late 1960s to the present the Department of Defense has regularly published information on the level of Russian ICBM, SLBM and ABM deployment.

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Constant, J.N. (1981). Surveillance and Reconnaissance. In: Fundamentals of Strategic Weapons. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0649-6_7

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