The singular weapon. What remains from the atomic age?
Creators
- 1. Forschungsstaette der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft (FEST), Heidelberg (Germany)
Description
The book contains the following contributions: Why do we talk about the atomic age? The language of the atomic myth - comments to a protestant debate. Nuclear singularity between fiction and reality. Only one can get through: military singularity of nuclear weapons. Physical singularity of nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons test and fall-out. Quantitative disarmament and qualitative rearmament. Do mini nukes neutralize the singularity? The vulnerability of the industrial society by the nuclear electromagnetic momentum. Nuclear weapons as national status symbol - the example of India. The general regulations of international laws and the singularity of nuclear weapons. The construction of normative singularity - development and change of the nuclear taboo.
Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (German)
- Die Singulaere Waffe. Was bleibt vom Atomzeitalter?
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Springer VS
- Imprint Place
- Wiesbaden (Germany)
- ISBN
- 978-3-531-18729-7; 978-3-531-18730-3 (electronic)
- Imprint Pagination
- 208 p.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 45049349
- Subject category
- S98: NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT, SAFEGUARDS AND PHYSICAL PROTECTION;
- Descriptors DEI
- FALLOUT; HAZARDS; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS; INTERNATIONAL CONTROL; INTERNATIONAL LAWS; MILITARY STRATEGY; NATIONAL DEFENSE; NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT; NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS; NUCLEAR WEAPONS; PUBLIC ANXIETY; PUBLIC OPINION; SAFEGUARDS; SINGULARITY; VULNERABILITY; WARFARE
- Descriptors DEC
- AGREEMENTS; ATOMIC ENERGY CONTROL; CONTROL; EXPLOSIONS; LAWS; WEAPONS