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Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence - Technology, Security and Culture (Hardcover)
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Justifying Ballistic Missile Defence - Technology, Security and Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in International Relations
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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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