Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence

Name: Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521130417
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Technology, Security and Culture

Autor: Columba Peoples

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: 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

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2009

Stránek

318

EAN

9780521130417

ISBN

0521130417

Enbook ID

02023287

Vydavatel

Cambridge University Press

Hmotnost

510

Rozměry

227 x 154 x 16

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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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