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The chapter emphasizes the unprecedented danger represented by nuclear weapons in the history of humanity. Nuclear weapons are described as true weapons of mass destruction with catastrophic, indiscriminate and disproportioned effects. It analyses the complex relationship between technology and the arms race, making a strong case in favour of getting an independent scientific community involved in the ‘rational’ study of and engagement with issues so potently related to world security.
Originally published in Edoardo Amaldi and Carlo Schaerf, eds., International School on Disarmament and Arms Control: Proceedings of the First Course (Rome: ISODARCO, 1967): 33–41.
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Feld, B.T. (2018). Technological Aspects of World Security. In: Foradori, P., Giacomello, G., Pascolini, A. (eds) Arms Control and Disarmament. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62259-0_1
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