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A base for debate : the US satellite station at Nurrungar / Desmond Ball.
Record no.:
4920
Author:
Ball, Desmond.;
Publisher:
Boston :: Allen & Unwin,
Year:
1987.
Description:
xiii, 122 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject:
Joint Defence Space Communication Station (Nurrungar, S.A.);
Ballistic missile early warning system - Australia - Nurrungar (S.A.);
Space surveillance - Australia - Nurrungar (S.A.);
Australia - Military relations - United States.;
United States - Military relations - Australia.;
Notes:
Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-108) and index.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0043550274 9780043550274;
Abstract:
Introduction -- The DSP space segment -- THe DSP ground segment -- Australia's role in the DSP system -- Conclusions.

The US maintains an installation in South Australia. This book provides the information necessary for an informed assessment
of this installation so that Australian citizens will be able to judge for themselves the costs and benefits of hosting a facility whose operations are cloaked in secrecy.
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