Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence

Name: Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521113298
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Technology, Security and Culture

Autor: Columba Peoples

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Editura: Cambridge University Press

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Technology is championed as the solution to modern security problems, but also blamed as their cause...

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Autor

Columba Peoples

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engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2009

Pagini

318

EAN

9780521113298

ISBN

0521113296

Enbook ID

02022373

Editura

Cambridge University Press

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Dimensiuni

158 x 234 x 18

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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 missile attacks. Columba Peoples shows how, in the face of strong scientific and strategic critique, advocates of missile defence seek to justify its development by reference to broader culturally embedded perceptions of the promises and perils of technological development. Unpacking the assumptions behind the justification of missile defence initiatives, both past and present, this book illustrates how common-sense understandings of technology are combined and used to legitimate this controversial and costly defence programme. In doing so it engages fundamental debates over understandings of technological development, human agency and the relationship between technology and security.

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