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This book, first published in 1980, examines the extent to which
warfare and other military activities contribute to environmental
degradation. The military capability to damage the environment has
escalated. The military use and abuse of each of the several major
global habitats - temperate, tropical, desert, arctic, insular and
oceanic - are evaluated separately in the light of the civil use
and abuse of that habitat.
The effects of weapons of mass destruction cannot be contained,
either spatially or temporally, are unpredictable, discriminate
poorly between combatants and civilians, and are highly disruptive
of ecosystems. This book, first published in 1977, examines several
WMD and analyses the extent and duration of environmental damage to
be expected from them. Chapters are devoted to the ecological
impacts of nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapons, and
geophysical and environmental weapons.
This book, first published in 1978, examines the military use of
space - around 60 per cent of US and Soviet satellites were
military ones. The satellites were for military communications,
weather prediction, navigation, photographic and electronic
reconnaissance, targeting, early warning, and satellites capable of
destroying enemy satellites. This book analyses the capabilities of
military satellites as part of the debate around the encroachment
of military technology and purposes into space.
This book, first published in 1980, presents the findings of the
SIPRI-organized 1979 international symposium on the destruction and
conversion of chemical weapons. Thirty experts from 14 countries
discussed the destruction and conversion of present stockpiles of
chemical warfare agents and munitions; the destruction and
conversion of CW research and development facilities; verification
of compliance, and confidence-building measures facilitating
verification; and the environmental and occupational health hazards
involved in maintaining and in disposing of stockpiles of CW agents
and munitions.
This book, first published in 1978, analyses the development, uses
and effects of conventional anti-personnel weapons such as rifles
and machine guns, grenades, bombs, shells and mines. It provides
the historical, military, technical and clinical background to the
international legal discussions as part of the ongoing efforts to
prohibit or restrict the uses of some of the more inhumane and
indiscriminate of these weapons, the most successful being the 1997
Ottawa Treaty that banned the use of anti-personnel mines.
The basic idea of common security is not complex. It is that no
country can obtain security, in the long run, simply by taking
unilateral decisions about its own military forces. This is because
security depends also on the actions and reactions of potential
adversaries. Security has to be found in common with those
adversaries. These ideas were considered in a SIPRI conference held
in 1983. The conference had two main objectives. The first was to
undertake a critical examination of the concept. The second was to
consider the implications of the idea for policy in general, and
for disarmament and arms control policy in particular. Originally
published in 1985, this book contains revised versions of some of
the papers presented at the conference.
This book, first published in 1980, examines the extent to which
warfare and other military activities contribute to environmental
degradation. The military capability to damage the environment has
escalated. The military use and abuse of each of the several major
global habitats - temperate, tropical, desert, arctic, insular and
oceanic - are evaluated separately in the light of the civil use
and abuse of that habitat.
The effects of weapons of mass destruction cannot be contained,
either spatially or temporally, are unpredictable, discriminate
poorly between combatants and civilians, and are highly disruptive
of ecosystems. This book, first published in 1977, examines several
WMD and analyses the extent and duration of environmental damage to
be expected from them. Chapters are devoted to the ecological
impacts of nuclear weapons, chemical and biological weapons, and
geophysical and environmental weapons.
This book, first published in 1978, analyses the development, uses
and effects of conventional anti-personnel weapons such as rifles
and machine guns, grenades, bombs, shells and mines. It provides
the historical, military, technical and clinical background to the
international legal discussions as part of the ongoing efforts to
prohibit or restrict the uses of some of the more inhumane and
indiscriminate of these weapons, the most successful being the 1997
Ottawa Treaty that banned the use of anti-personnel mines.
This book, first published in 1978, examines the military use of
space - around 60 per cent of US and Soviet satellites were
military ones. The satellites were for military communications,
weather prediction, navigation, photographic and electronic
reconnaissance, targeting, early warning, and satellites capable of
destroying enemy satellites. This book analyses the capabilities of
military satellites as part of the debate around the encroachment
of military technology and purposes into space.
This book, first published in 1980, presents the findings of the
SIPRI-organized 1979 international symposium on the destruction and
conversion of chemical weapons. Thirty experts from 14 countries
discussed the destruction and conversion of present stockpiles of
chemical warfare agents and munitions; the destruction and
conversion of CW research and development facilities; verification
of compliance, and confidence-building measures facilitating
verification; and the environmental and occupational health hazards
involved in maintaining and in disposing of stockpiles of CW agents
and munitions.
The basic idea of common security is not complex. It is that no
country can obtain security, in the long run, simply by taking
unilateral decisions about its own military forces. This is because
security depends also on the actions and reactions of potential
adversaries. Security has to be found in common with those
adversaries. These ideas were considered in a SIPRI conference held
in 1983. The conference had two main objectives. The first was to
undertake a critical examination of the concept. The second was to
consider the implications of the idea for policy in general, and
for disarmament and arms control policy in particular. Originally
published in 1985, this book contains revised versions of some of
the papers presented at the conference.
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