This book
is organised in 5 parts and contains 15 chapters by social
and natural scientists. Part I on: Military Technology and
Theory of Armaments Dynamics contains two chapters by Hans
Günter Brauch (Germany) on: "Military Technology
- Armaments Dynamics - Strategic Stability: Implications for
Arms Control and Disarmament" and by Marek Thee (Norway)
on: "Military Technology - A Driving Force behind the
Arms Race and an Impediment for Arms Control and Disarmament".
Part II
on: Military Technology: the Case of Atomic, Biological and
Chemical Weapons includes three chapters by Kosta Tsipis (USA)
on: "Third-generation Nuclear Weapons", by Nicholas
A. Sims (UK) on "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 Toxin Weapons, Geneva 1986", and by
Julian P. Perry Robinson (UK) on: "Supply, Demand and
Assimilation in Chemical-warfare Armament".
In part
III two chapters deal with: Military Use of Nuclear Energy:
The Case of Bombers and Outer Space by Ulrich Albrecht (Germany)
who reviews the story of "The Nuclear-propelled Bomber
- A Faked Arms Race Between the US and the USSR" while
Rip Bulkeley (UK) discusses "Nuclear Power in Space:
A Technology Beyond Control?
Part IV
on: Military Technology: Ballistic Missile Defence and SDI
includes five chapters by Paul Rogers (UK) on "The Transformation
of War: The Real Implications of the SDI", by Richard
Garwin (USA) on "SDI- A Sceptical Assessment by an American
Physicist", by Raold Sagdeev (then in the Soviet Union,
now in the USA) on: "Star Wars and Strategic Stability",
by Seiitsu Tachibana (Japan) on "SDI: Ten Fundamental
Contradictions - The Need For a Real Alternative to the Nuclear
Predicament - A View from Nagasaki" and by Hans Günter
Brauch (Germany) on: "Strategic Defence Initiative or
Strategic Defence Response? An Attempt to Interpret the Emergence
of the SDI Programme in Terms of Theorems of Armaments Dynamics".
In Part
V the last three chapters deal with the Military Use of Outer
Space - Implications for International Law with contributions
by P.K. Menon (Barbados) on: "Arms Limitation in Outer
Space for Human Survival", by Pál Dunay (Hungary)
on "The Military Use of Outer Space: Implications for
International Law" and by: Horst Fischer (Germany) on:
"The Vienna Convention on the Law of the Treaties and
the Interpretation of the ABM Treaty".
The book
concludes with a select bibliography on issues related with:
Military Technology, Armaments Dynamics and Disarmament and
a detailed index. The book is still on the backlist of Macmillan
Press and St. Martin's Press that were succeeded by the new
imprint: Palgrave.
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