This work looks at a new arms race which the general public has hardly yet heard of - the development of so-called non-lethal weapons such as blinding lasers, electrical stunners, infrasound disorienting beams, repeat pulse microwave devices and a whole range of new chemical weapons. The authors explain what the new weapons are and how they work. They describe how this military hi-tech is already beginning to be used and the health risks, ethical implications and human rights consequences involved. They discuss the new notion of benign intervention as it becomes a central part of 21st-century strategy for the maintenance of order in an essentially disorderly world.
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'A brilliant path-breaking work which will spark and shape debate on non-lethal weapons for some time... Particularly impressive for putting non-lethal weapons into a larger conceptual and strategic framework' - Professor Steven Metz, Strategic Studies Institute, United States Army War College
This work looks at a new arms race which the general public has hardly yet heard of - the development of so-called non-lethal weapons such as blinding lasers, electrical stunners, infrasound disorienting beams, repeat pulse microwave devices and a whole range of new chemical weapons. The authors explain what the new weapons are and how they work. They describe how this military hi-tech is already beginning to be used and the health risks, ethical implications and human rights consequences involved. They discuss the new notion of benign intervention as it becomes a central part of 21st-century strategy for the maintenance of order in an essentially disorderly world.
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Librería: High Street Books, New Mills, Reino Unido
Paperback. Condición: Good. Owner's inscription and some foxing to the tanned page edges. Shipped from the UK in recyclable card packaging. Nº de ref. del artículo: cb056-124-0257
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