Author: Sharon WeinbergerPublisher: Nation Books
ISBN: 9781568583297
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story of how a lunatic fringe science project became favored by Rumsfeld's Pentagon.
Imaginary Weapons
Author: Sharon WeinbergerPublisher: Nation Books
ISBN: 9781568583297
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The story of how a lunatic fringe science project became favored by Rumsfeld's Pentagon.
Understanding the imaginary war
Author: Matthew GrantPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526101335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This collection offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds. The book includes survey chapters and case studies on Western Europe, the USSR, Japan and the USA. Looking at various strands of intellectual debate and at different media, from documentary film to fiction, the chapters demonstrate the difficulties to make the unthinkable and unimaginable - nuclear apocalypse - imaginable. The book will be required reading for everyone who wants to understand the cultural dynamics of the Cold War through the angle of its core ingredient, nuclear weapons.
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
Author: Paul ScharrePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393608999
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"The book I had been waiting for. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Bill Gates The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons systems—from Israel’s Harpy drone to the American submarine-hunting robot ship Sea Hunter—and examines the legal and ethical issues surrounding their use. “A smart primer to what’s to come in warfare” (Bruce Schneier), Army of None engages military history, global policy, and cutting-edge science to explore the implications of giving weapons the freedom to make life and death decisions. A former soldier himself, Scharre argues that we must embrace technology where it can make war more precise and humane, but when the choice is life or death, there is no replacement for the human heart.
Dangerous Games
Author: Joseph LaycockPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520284917
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous but an occult religion masquerading as a game. Dangerous Games explores both the history and the sociological significance of this panic. Fantasy role-playing games do share several functions in common with religion. However, religionÑas a socially constructed world of shared meaningÑcan also be compared to a fantasy role-playing game. In fact, the claims of the moral entrepreneurs, in which they presented themselves as heroes battling a dark conspiracy, often resembled the very games of imagination they condemned as evil. By attacking the imagination, they preserved the taken-for-granted status of their own socially constructed reality. Interpreted in this way, the panic over fantasy-role playing games yields new insights about how humans play and together construct and maintain meaningful worlds. LaycockÕs clear and accessible writing ensures that Dangerous Games will be required reading for those with an interest in religion, popular culture, and social behavior, both in the classroom and beyond.
Fundamentals of Shooter Game Design
Author: Ernest W. AdamsPublisher: Pearson Education
ISBN: 0133810941
Category : Computer games
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Teddie
Author: Fredric H. BrittonChinese Views of Future Warfare
Author: Michael PillsburyPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780788146688
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
An introduction to the works of authoritative and innovative Chinese authors whose writings focus on the future of the Chinese military. These carefully selected, representative essays make Chinese military thinking more accessible to western readers. It reveals, for example, China's keen interest in the Revolution in military affairs. This volume is an important starting point for understanding China's future military modernization. "Must reading for every executive of every Western firm doing business in China." "Readers will be impressed by China's ambitions in space, information warfare, stealth, and robots, in future warfare." Photos.
The Sunflower Sword
Author: Mark SperringPublisher: Andersen Press USA
ISBN: 1467744352
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
In a land filled with fire and smoke and endless fighting, where knights fight dragons, there lives a little knight who wants to be big like the others, and fight like the others, and have a sword like the others. But his mother won’t let him. Instead of a sword, she gives him a sunflower, which, as it turns out, can be mightier than a sword.
Military Construction Appropriations for 1966
Author: United States. Congress. House. AppropriationsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1422
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