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In: Alternatives: global, local, political, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 35-58
ISSN: 2163-3150
The paper examines the present escalation of armaments, both conventional and nuclear, the mind-boggling stockpiles (with the capacity to destroy all life on earth many times over), the incredible speed of replacement of old and innovation and deployment of ever newer, ever more sophisticated and ever more lethal weapon system in their dynamic development. It identifies four factors of the armaments dynamic and, after examining each of them, comes to the conclusion that the most important and most dangerous is the military R&D. It has engulfed all scientific disciplines - natural, social and behavioural - and penetrated into industry, laboratories, universities, special research institutes and centres of learning. Military R&D not only absorbs the best scientific and technological talent, but also distorts priorities in scientific research itself. Having forged a symbiotic relationship with the structures of economy, politics and state bureaucracy, it has acquired an autonomous and self-propelling existence, making of the armaments race an exponential curve - rapid and steep and unending - and defying any kind of social control. Military R&D has also become an instrument of diplomacy; it blocks all attempts at arms limitation, even on a very modest scale, by vitiating the very negotiating process: efforts to achieve quantitative limitations are offset by qualitative compensations, and arms control negotiation is turned into a collaborative exercise in armaments escalation. Above all, military R&D gobbles up the resources that could well go to relieving mass poverty and providing the basic necessities of life to people around the world. The paper ends by suggesting a series of action to undermine, if not dismantle, the formidable structure so as to open the way to disarmament.
In: Defense analysis, Band 2, Heft 2, S. 158-159
ISSN: 1470-3602
In: Alternatives: global, local, political, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 35-58
ISSN: 0304-3754
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In: The bulletin of the atomic scientists: a magazine of science and public affairs, Band 33, Heft 1, S. 12-26
ISSN: 0096-3402, 0096-5243, 0742-3829
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In: Bulletin of the atomic scientists, Band 33, Heft 1, S. 13-26
ISSN: 1938-3282
In: Telos, Heft 169
ISSN: 0040-2842, 0090-6514
In 2012, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) commissioned a consensus report from the National Research Council on ethical and social issues associated with military research and development (R&D). DARPA's interest was both principled and practical. It wanted to do the right thing, as defined by US and international law, the Geneva Conventions, the laws of armed conflict, and similar prescriptions. Here, Fischhoff demonstrates how military R&D can become sensitive to ethical concerns, as discussed in the 2013 report Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security: A Framework for Addressing Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues. Adapted from the source document.
In: Science, Technology, and Society Series
Frontmatter --Acknowledgments --Contents --Tables --Introduction --I. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology --II. Ménage à Trois: The University, Federal Support, and the Instrumentation Laboratory --III. First Strike: The Research Stowage on March 4, 1969 --IV. Reconnaissance: The Pounds Panel --V. Accommodations and Negotiations --VI. Student Offensive: Confrontation and Crisis --VII. The Decision to Divest --VIII. Universities and the Ethic of Responsibility --Appendix I. Contrasting Assumptions of C. S. Draper and the Activists --Appendix II. Statement by President Howard W. Johnson on the Special Laboratories, October 22, 1969 --Appendix II./ Statement by President Howard W. Johnson on the Special Laboratories, May 20, 1970 --A Note on the Program on Science, Technology, and Society --Abbreviations --Index
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In: Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health: JMVFH, Band 7, Heft s1, S. 3-4
ISSN: 2368-7924
In: Bulletin of peace proposals: to motivate research, to inspire future oriented thinking, to promote activities for peace, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 57-62
ISSN: 2516-9181
In: Bulletin of peace proposals: to motivate research, to inspire future oriented thinking, to promote activities for peace, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 3-10
ISSN: 2516-9181