Justifying ballistic missile defence : technology, security and culture /

Technology is championed as the solution to modern security problems, but also blamed as their cause. This book assesses the way in which these two views collide in the debate over ballistic missile defence: a complex, costly and controversial system intended to defend the United States from nuclear...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Peoples, Columba
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:Cambridge studies in international relations ; 112.
Subjects:
Ballistic missile defenses.
Ballistic missile defenses > Political aspects.
Ballistic missile defenses > United States.
Défense antimissile balistique.
Défense antimissile balistique > Aspect politique.
Défense antimissile > États-Unis.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Raketenabwehr
Technologie
Politik
Raketenabwehr.
Technologie.
Politik.
United States.
USA
USA.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Critical theory, security and technology
  • Technology and common sense in America
  • Defence in the missile age?
  • Post-war missile defence and the language of technological fears
  • The Strategic Defense Initiative and America's technological heritage
  • 'Star Wars' and technological determinism
  • Ballistic missile defence : 'technology, working for you now'
  • The iron cage of proliferation
  • Conclusion : common sense and the strategic use of 'technology'.

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