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Trident: What is it For? Challenging the Relevance of British Nuclear Weapons
YesThis briefing paper is the second in a series to be published during 2007 and 2008 as part of
the Bradford Disarmament Research CentreÂżs programme on Nuclear-Armed Britain: A Critical
Examination of Trident Modernisation, Implications and Accountability
On the importance of a drawn sword: Christian thinking about preemptive warâand its modern outworking
This is the author's PDF version of an article published in Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics© 2007.This article discusses the just war tradition.This article was submitted to the RAE2008 for the University of Chester - Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies
Saint Leibowitz and Reflections on Bio-Chemical Warfare at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Tacit knowledge and the biological weapons regime
Bioterrorism has become increasingly salient in security discourse in part because of perceived changes in the capacity and geography of life science research. Yet its salience is founded upon a framing of changes in science and security that does not always take into consideration the somewhat slippery concept of âtacit knowledgeâ, something poorly understood, disparately conceptualised and often marginalised in discussions on state and non-state biological weapons programmes. This paper looks at how changes in science and technologyâparticularly the evolution of information and communications technologyâhas contributed to the partial erosion of aspects of tacit knowledge and the implications for the biological weapons regime. This paper concludes by arguing that the marginalisation of tacit knowledge weakens our understanding of the difficulties encountered in biological weapons programmes and can result in distorted perceptions of the threat posed by dual-use biotechnology in the 21st century
Looming struggles over technology for border control
New technologies under development, capable of inflicting pain on masses of people, could be used for border control against asylum seekers. Implementation might be rationalized by the threat of mass migration due to climate change, nuclear disaster or exaggerated fears of refugees created by governments. We focus on taser anti-personnel mines, suggesting both technological countermeasures and ways of making the use of such technology politically counterproductive. We also outline several other types of ânon-lethalâ technology that could be used for border control and raise human rights concerns: high-powered microwaves, armed robots, wireless tasers, acoustic devices/vortex rings, ionizing and pulsed energy lasers, chemical calmatives, convulsants, bioregulators and malodurants. Whether all these possible border technologies will be implemented is a matter for speculation, but their serious human rights implications warrant advance scrutiny
Shared Responsibilities for Nuclear Disarmament: A Global Debate
Presents Sagan's 2009 paper calling for rethinking the balance of responsibilities and the relationship between articles in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with seven response papers by international scholars about how to pursue nuclear disarmament
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