Designed to Kill: The Case Against Weapons Research

• Main Author: Forge, John. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Research Ethics Forum, 1
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Ethics.; Medical ethics.; Philosophy.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Security Science and Technology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5736-3

The pilot-less drones, smart bombs and other high-tech weapons on display in recent conflicts are all the outcome of weapons research. However, the kind of scientific and technological endeavour has been around for a long time, producing not only the armaments of Nazi Germany and the atomic bombs dr...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1; Weapons, Weapons Research and the Case Against Weapons Research
• Chapter 2; The Development of Projectile Weapons: Ancient Catapults
• Chapter 3; The Development of Projectile Weapons 2: Firearms
• Chapter 4; The Development of Nuclear Weapons
• Chapter 5; The Moral Dimension of Weapons Research
• Chapter 6; How to Make The Case Against Weapons Research
• Chapter 7; Defensive, Deterrent and Humane Weapons
• Chapter 8; Weapons Research, Contexts and Justifications, and the Analogy with Explanation
• Chapter 9; Just War Theory and Wartime Weapons Research
• Chapter 10; War and Realism
• Chapter 11; Commercial Weapons Research and Peacetime Weapons Research
• Chapter 12; Wartime Weapons Research and Supreme Emergency in World War Two
• Chapter 13; Conclusion and Review of the Major Claims and Assumptions.