A Need for Tighter Controls on High Tech Exports


 

Publication Date: April 1985

Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)

Author(s): Wayne A. Abernathy

Research Area: Military and defense; Trade

Keywords: Trade and foreign aid

Type: Report

Abstract:

There is no alternative to an effective export control program for national security. It is a delusion to believe that, in the absence of effective technological advantage, the security of the West can be maintained without an increase in defense spending to levels that Western governments find unacceptable.