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In our profound desire to get on with arms control, it is natural to consider limiting military research and development - the conceptual and early gestation stages of military hardware. In our eagerness, we may overlook the complex issues that make control of military R&D generally not feasible and sometimes not desirable even from an arms control perspective. This paper attempts to elucidate why “to check military R&D” as such is so problematic. Although the paper offers no new arms control proposals, it should provoke discussion of what is and what is not realistic in trying to control military R&D.
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Ruina, J. (1989). Controlling Military Research and Development. In: Rotblat, J., Goldanskii, V.I. (eds) Global Problems and Common Security. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75072-4_22
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