Published 2012 | Version v1
Book

The singular weapon. What remains from the atomic age?

  • 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.