In this study of space-based antimissile defenses and their potential military and political consequences, Ben Bova shows how the very technology that has fostered global terror of weapons can also provide the means of warfare suppression. He argues that the technology of computers, satellites, lasers, drone aircraft and "smart" weapons can make warfare of any type impossible, anywhere on earth or in space and that the world can move from the era of Mutual Assured Destruction to an era of Mutual Assured Survival. ISBN 0-395-36405-1 : $15.95.