New Technologies and the Arms Race

✍ Scribed by Carlo Schaerf, Brian Holden Reid, David Carlton (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1989
Tongue: English
Leaves: 397
Series: Studies in Disarmament and Conflicts
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This volume contains the proceedings of the International Conference on Technology, Arms Race and Disarmament which took place at Castiglioncello, Italy, in September 1987. The papers examine strategic defence policies, nuclear weapons proliferation and arms control among many other topics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Do Civilian Spin-offs Justify Investments in Military Technology?....Pages 3-16
Non-Military Justification of Military R and D: Rationality or Rationalisation?....Pages 17-28
Non-Military Justifications for Investment in Military R and D....Pages 29-49
Non-Military Justification for Investments in Military Technologies....Pages 50-54
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
Scientists and the Strategic Defense Initiative....Pages 57-65
Defensive and Offensive Weapons in Space and Civilian Space Technologies....Pages 66-79
Clarifying ABM Treaty Ambiguities: Threshold Limits....Pages 80-95
Cosmic Space and the Role of Europe....Pages 96-105
A Technical Assessment of Potential Threats to NATO from Non-Nuclear Soviet Tactical Ballistic Missiles....Pages 106-157
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Civilian Nuclear Technologies and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation....Pages 161-198
Nuclear Disarmament and Peaceful Nuclear Technology — Can We Have Both?....Pages 199-209
Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Programme and its Implications....Pages 210-215
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
Routine Nuclear Operations....Pages 219-225
Arms, Decision-Making and Information Technology....Pages 226-236
Controlling Theatre Nuclear War....Pages 237-274
Problems in European Command and Control....Pages 275-282
Front Matter....Pages 283-283
The Purposes, Achievements and Priorities of Arms Control....Pages 285-309
Progress and Failure in Arms Control....Pages 310-315
Steps to Constrain Arms Races....Pages 316-323
Progress and Failure in Disarmament....Pages 324-331
Front Matter....Pages 283-283
Technology, the Arms Race and Disarmament....Pages 332-344
Experimental Nuclear Explosions and the Arms Race....Pages 345-353
The US National Resources Defense Council/Soviet Academy of Sciences Nuclear Test Ban Verification Project....Pages 354-362
Back Matter....Pages 363-377

✦ Subjects

Military and Defence Studies; International Relations

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