Military technology, armaments dynamics and disarmament : ABC weapons, military use of nuclear energy and of outer space and implications for international law
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Military technology, armaments dynamics and disarmament : ABC weapons, military use of nuclear energy and of outer space and implications for international law
Macmillan Press, 1989
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 505-538.
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book offers theoretical analysis on the context and on the dual function of military technology, as well as case studies on the third generation of nuclear weapons, on the Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference, on the driving forces of chemical armament and on the military use of nuclear energy as a possible propellant for bombers and in outer space. Five chapters written by three physicists from the USA, USSR and UK and two peace researchers from Japan and West Germany focus on SDI: its technical foundations, consequences for strategic stability and war as well as on its contradictions and on a case of armament dynamics theory. The book concludes with three chapters on the implications of the military use of outer space for international law from a Western, an Eastern and a Third World perspective, with views from West Germany, Hungary and Barbados, respectively.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Military technology and theory of armaments dynamics: military technology - armaments dynamics - strategic stability implications for arms control and disarmament, H.G.Brauch
- a driving force behind the arms race and an impediment for arms control and disarmament. Part 2 Military technology - the case of atomic, biological and chemical weapons: third generation of nuclear weapons, K.Isipis
- diplomatic responses to changing assessments of scientific and technological developments to a disarmament regime - the Second Review Conference of the 1972 Convention on Biological and Toxic Weapons, Geneva 1986, N.Sims
- supply, demand and assimilation in chemical warfare armament, J.P.Perry Robinson. Part 3 Military use of nuclear energy - the case of bombers and outer space: the nuclear-propelled bomber - a faked arms race between the US and the USSR, U. Albrecht
- nuclear power in space - a technology beyond control?,R.Bulkeley. Part 4 Military technology - ballistic missile defence and SDI: the transformation of war - the real implications of the SDI, P.Rogers
- SDI - a sceptical assessment by an American physicist, R. Garwin
- Star Wars and strategic stability, R. Sagdeev
- SDI - ten fundamental contradictions - the need for a real alternative to the nuclear predicament - a view from Nagasaki, S. Tachibana
- SDI and armaments dynamics - a case study in interpreting the US programme, H.G.Brauch. Part 5 Military use of outer space - implications for international law: arms limitation in outer space for human survival, P.K.Menon
- the military use of outer space - implications for internaional law, P.Dunay
- the Vienna Convention on the law of the treaties and the interpretation of the ABM treaty.
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