This work, focused on the hegemonic power and exacerbated militarism that represent projects and realities like the anti-missile "defense" conceived by different administrations in the US after World War II, is a thorough investigation into this problem. The author searched on the origins of the American military project and the evolution of military science and technology during the four decades of the so-called "Cold War" and in the context of the landscape of contemporary international politics and the great confrontation with the then Soviet adversary. The research is framed within the...