Can science end war? / Everett Carl Dolman.

By: Dolman, Everett C, 1958-Publication details: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press , 2016 Description: IX, 187 p. ; 19 cmISBN: 978-0-7456-8596-0Subject(s): Ciencia militar | Aspectos morales | Tecnología | Innovación | Ciencia

Contents:

Preface: be careful what you look for -- Can science end war? -- Is war good for science? -- Can scientists end war? -- Can science limit war? -- What will tomorrow's war look like? -- What will end war?.

Abstract: Is this vision of future war possible, or even inevitable? In this timely new book, Everett Carl Dolman examines the relationship between science and war. Historically, science has played an important role in ending wars – think of the part played by tanks in breaching trench warfare in the First World War, or atom bombs in hastening the Japanese surrender in the Second World War – but to date this has only increased the danger and destructiveness of future conflicts. Could science ever create the con-ditions of a permanent peace, either by making wars impossible to win, or so horrific that no one would ever fight? Ultimately, Dolman argues that science cannot, on its own, end war without also ending what it means to be human.

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Is this vision of future war possible, or even inevitable? In this timely new book, Everett Carl Dolman examines the relationship between science and war. Historically, science has played an important role in ending wars – think of the part played by tanks in breaching trench warfare in the First World War, or atom bombs in hastening the Japanese surrender in the Second World War – but to date this has only increased the danger and destructiveness of future conflicts. Could science ever create the con-ditions of a permanent peace, either by making wars impossible to win, or so horrific that no one would ever fight? Ultimately, Dolman argues that science cannot, on its own, end war without also ending what it means to be human.