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Justifying ballistic missile defence : = technology, security and culture /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Justifying ballistic missile defence :/ Columba Peoples.
Reminder of title:	technology, security and culture /
Author:	Peoples, Columba,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 299 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Ballistic missile defenses - United States. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511691874
ISBN:	9780511691874 (ebook)

Justifying ballistic missile defence : = technology, security and culture /
Peoples, Columba,

Justifying ballistic missile defence :technology, security and culture /Columba Peoples. - 1 online resource (xi, 299 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in international relations ;112. - Cambridge studies in international relations ;71..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Critical theory, security and technology -- Technology and common sense in America -- Defence in the missile age? -- Post-war missile defence and the language of technological fears -- The Strategic Defense Initiative and America's technological heritage -- 'Star Wars' and technological determinism -- Ballistic missile defence : 'technology, working for you now' -- The iron cage of proliferation.

Technology is championed as the solution to modern security problems, but also blamed as their cause. This book assesses the way in which these two views collide in the debate over ballistic missile defence: a complex, costly and controversial system intended to defend the United States from nuclear missile attacks. Columba Peoples shows how, in the face of strong scientific and strategic critique, advocates of missile defence seek to justify its development by reference to broader culturally embedded perceptions of the promises and perils of technological development. Unpacking the assumptions behind the justification of missile defence initiatives, both past and present, this book illustrates how common-sense understandings of technology are combined and used to legitimate this controversial and costly defence programme. In doing so it engages fundamental debates over understandings of technological development, human agency and the relationship between technology and security.

ISBN: 9780511691874 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

800039
Ballistic missile defenses
--United States.

LC Class. No.: UG743 / .P46 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 358.1/740973

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