Military technology, armaments dynamics, and disarmament : ABC weapons, military use of nuclear energy and of outer space and implications for international law

Edited By Hans Günter Brauch. A Selection Of Rev. Papers Originally Presented At The Eleventh General Conference Of The International Peace Research Association, Held At The University Of Sussex, April 13-16, 1986. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 505-538. Front Matter....Pages i-lx Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Military Technology — Armaments Dynamics — Strategic Stability implications for arms control and disarmament....Pages 3-38 Military Technology — A Driving Force Behind the Arms Race and an Impediment to Arms Control and Disarmament....Pages 39-64 Front Matter....Pages 65-65 Third-generation Nuclear Weapons....Pages 67-91 Diplomatic Responses to Changing Assessments of Scientific and Technological Developments Relevant to a Disarmament Regime: The Second Review Conference of the 1972 Convention on Biological and Toxin Weapons, Geneva 1986....Pages 92-111 Supply, Demand and Assimilation in Chemical-Warfare Armament....Pages 112-123 Front Matter....Pages 125-125 The Nuclear-propelled Bomber — a Faked Arms Race Between the US and the USSR....Pages 127-164 Nuclear Power in Space: A Technology Beyond Control?....Pages 165-211 Front Matter....Pages 213-213 The Transformation of War: The Real Implications of the SDI....Pages 215-227 SDI — A Sceptical Assessment by an American Physicist....Pages 228-294 Star Wars and Strategic Stability....Pages 295-303 SDI: Ten Fundamental Contradictions — The Need for a Real Alternative to the Nuclear Predicament — A View from Nagasaki....Pages 304-351 Strategic Defence Initiative or Strategic Defence Response? An Attempt to Interpret the Emergence of the SDI Programme in Terms of Theorems of Armaments Dynamics....Pages 352-442 Front Matter....Pages 443-443 Arms Limitation in Outer Space for Human Survival....Pages 445-470 The Military Use of Outer Space: Implications for International Law....Pages 471-486 The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and the Interpretation of the ABM Treaty....Pages 487-504 Back Matter....Pages 505-569 This book offers theoretical analysis on the context and on the dual function of military technology, case studies on the third generation of nuclear weapons, on the Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference, on the driving forces of chemical armament and many other related themes.