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Key Features:Written by an arms control specialist who has won numerous awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Enrico Fermi Award, the Heinz R Pagels Human Rights of Scientists Award and the Heinz Award for Public Policy.
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Intro -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I My Involvement as a Scientist Working on Issues of National Security and Views on Scientists' Responsibilities and Ethical Dilemmas -- - Reflections -- - Physics and U.S. National Security -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. PHOTORECONNAISSANCE FROM SPACE -- III. ABM SYSTEMS -- IV. NUCLEAR TESTING -- V. SCIENCE ADVICE -- VI. THE ETHICAL DILEMMA OF SCIENTISTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- - The Moral Obligation of Scientists and a Rekindling of Hope -- - Response on Behalf of Degree Recipients at the University of Tel Aviv Ceremony Granting Honorary Doctors Degrees -- - Response at the Ceremony Awarding the William Oliver Baker Award -- - Beyond Expectations - Building an American National Reconnaissance Capability: Recollections of the Pioneers and Founders of National Reconnaissance -- - The Impact of a Public Constituency -- - Science and Society: The Troubled Frontier -- - To Act or Not To Act -- CHAPTER II Issues Coming to the Fore Immediately Following the Collapse of the Soviet Union and the End of the Cold War -- - Science and National Security -- - Testimony on the Future of Arms Control -- - Abolishing Long-range Nuclear Missiles -- - Reducing Nuclear Danger -- A Dramatically New Situation -- From Opponents to Friends -- A Doctrine of Defensive Last Resort -- Reducing Nuclear Reliance -- Phasing Out Nuclear Testing -- Strategic Defense -- Lowering Weapons Deployments -- Immediate Steps and Long-Term Progress -- CHAPTER III At the End of the 20th Century: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Emergence of the New Terror of Biological and Chemical Weapons -- - Adlai Stevenson and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty of Today -- - On Stockpile Stewardship and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty -- - Putting the Nuclear Genie Back in the Bottle -- - Reasons To Ratify, Not To Stall.
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Drell, Sidney D., 1926 - 2016 Nuclear weapons, scientists, and the post-Cold War challenge Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, 2007 ISBN 9812568964
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789812568960
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ISBN 9812568972
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ISBN 9789812568977
Language:
English
Keywords:
Atomare Abrüstung
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Kernwaffe
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Rüstungsbegrenzung
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Weltpolitik
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Friedenssicherung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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