Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Author: Sohail H. Hashmi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-07-19
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9780521545266
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Author: Sohail H. Hashmi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-07-19
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9780521545266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Publisher Description
Author: Sohail H. Hashmi
Publisher:
Published: 2004-07-19
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 9780521836715
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume, first published in 2004, discusses weapons of mass destruction from a number of religious and secular perspectives.
Author: Seumas Miller
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-05-22
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 3319926063
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book deals with the problem of dual-use science research and technology. It first explains the concept of dual use and then offers analyses of collective knowledge and collective ignorance. It goes on to present a theory of collective responsibility, followed by four chapters focusing on a particular scientific field or industry of dual use concern: the chemical industry, the nuclear industry, cyber-technology and the biological sciences. The problem of dual-use science research and technology arises because such research and technology has the potential to be used for great evil as well as for great good. On the one hand, knowledge is a necessary condition, and perhaps a constitutive feature, of technologies that contribute greatly to individual and collective well-being. Consider, for example, nuclear technology that enables the generation of low cost electricity in populations without obvious alternative energy sources. So technological knowledge is a good thing and ignorance of it a bad thing. On the other hand, these same technologies can be extremely harmful to individuals and collectives, as with the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So, at least with respect to some technologies evidently knowledge is a bad thing and ignorance a good thing. Accordingly, the question arises as to whether we ought to limit scientific research and/or the development of technology and, if so, which research or technology, in what manner and to what extent. This book examines the answer to that question.
Author: Daniel Joyner
Publisher: Oxford Monographs in Internati
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 019920490X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This text analyses the international law and international organisations that have been constructed to regulate the worldwide proliferation of weapons technologies, particularly those that have been classified as weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
Author: Cathy O'Neil
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0553418815
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A former Wall Street quantitative analyst sounds an alarm on mathematical modeling, a pervasive new force in society that threatens to undermine democracy and widen inequality,"--NoveList.
Author: K. Kartchner
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-01-05
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0230618308
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book describes strategic culture and its value as a methodological approach to the study of International Relations. In particular, the book uses strategic culture to illuminate a number of case studies on countries that have made decisions regarding the acquisition, proliferation or use of weapons of mass destruction.
Author: Charles Edward Stewart
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780763724252
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Incidents in Terrorism - Boxed text providing background on terrorist events involving weapons of mass casualties. Incidents Involving Chemicals - Boxed text providing background on non-terrorist incidents involving chemicals. In-hosp
Author: Richard M. Price
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-09-05
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1501729543
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Richard M. Price asks why, among all the ominous technologies of weaponry throughout the history of warfare, chemical weapons carry a special moral stigma. Something more seems to be at work than the predictable resistance people have expressed to any new weaponry, from the crossbow to nuclear bombs. Perceptions of chemical warfare as particularly abhorrent have been successfully institutionalized in international proscriptions and, Price suggests, understanding the sources of this success might shed light on other efforts at arms control.To explore the origins and meaning of the chemical weapons taboo, Price presents a series of case studies from World War I through the Gulf War of 1990–1991. He traces the moral arguments against gas warfare from the Hague Conferences at the turn of the century through negotiations for the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993. From the Italian invasion of Ethiopia to the war between Iran and Iraq, chemical weapons have been condemned as the "poor man's bomb." Drawing upon insights from Michel Foucault to explain the role of moral norms in an international arena rarely sensitive to such pressures, he focuses on the construction of and mutations in the refusal to condone chemical weapons.
Author: Richard Norman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-02-09
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521455534
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Richard Norman looks at issues concerning the justification for war and thereby examines the possibility and nature of rational moral argument.