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Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence
- Technology, Security and Culture
Engelsk
Bogcover for Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence af Columba Peoples, 9780521130417
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
318
ISBN-13:
9780521130417
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0521130417
Udg. Dato:
10 dec 2009
Størrelse i cm:
15,4 x 22,7 x 1,6
Oplagsdato:
10 dec 2009
Forfatter(e):

Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence

- Technology, Security and Culture
Engelsk
Paperback 2009
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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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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
318
ISBN-13:
9780521130417
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0521130417
Udg. Dato:
10 dec 2009
Størrelse i cm:
15,4 x 22,7 x 1,6
Oplagsdato:
10 dec 2009
Forfatter(e):
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