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Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Weapons & equipment > General
The debate over cyber technology has resulted in new considerations
for national security operations. States find themselves in an
increasingly interconnected world with a diverse threat spectrum
and little understanding of how decisions are made within this
amorphous domain. With The Decision to Attack, Aaron Franklin
Brantly investigates how states decide to employ cyber in military
and intelligence operations against other states and how rational
those decisions are. In his examination, Brantly contextualizes
broader cyber decision-making processes into a systematic expected
utility-rational choice approach to provide a mathematical
understanding of the use of cyber weapons at the state level.
International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass
destruction (WMD)-including nuclear, biological, and chemical
weapons-rest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as
the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Chemical Weapons
Convention (CWC). Over time, however, states have created a number
of other mechanisms for organizing international cooperation to
promote nonproliferation. Examples range from regional efforts to
various worldwide export-control regimes and nuclear security
summit meetings initiated by U.S. president Barack Obama. Many of
these additional nonproliferation arrangements are less formal and
have fewer members than the global treaties. International
Cooperation on WMD Nonproliferation calls attention to the
emergence of international cooperation beyond the core global
nonproliferation treaties. The contributors examine why these other
cooperative nonproliferation mechanisms have emerged, assess their
effectiveness, and ask how well the different pieces of the global
nonproliferation regime complex fit together. Collectively, the
essayists show that states have added new forms of international
cooperation to combat WMD proliferation for multiple reasons,
including the need to address new problems and the entrepreneurial
activities of key state leaders. Despite the complications created
by the existence of so many different cooperative arrangements,
this collection shows the world is witnessing a process of building
cooperation that is leading to greater levels of activity in
support of norms against WMD and terrorism.
Countries around the globe are continuously investing money into
weapon development and manufacturing. While weapon design has been
a relevant topic, from the Middle Ages to today, the morality of
this practice is not commonly presented in research. The Morality
of Weapons Design and Development: Emerging Research and
Opportunities is an essential scholarly resource that presents
detailed discussions on ethical dilemmas in weapons design and
innovations. While highlighting relevant topics including
projectile and nuclear weapons, the true costs of war, design in
peacetime, and weapons development and justification, this book is
an ideal resource for researchers, engineers, graduate students,
and professionals who have an interest in weapons design,
development, and ethics.
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