Designed to Kill: The Case Against Weapons Research
The pilot-less drones, smart bombs and other high-tech weapons on display in recent conflicts are all the outcome of weapons research. However, the kind of scientific and technological endeavour has been around for a long time, producing not only the arma
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RESEARCH ETHICS FORUM Editors in Chief: David Hunter, University of Birmingham, UK John McMillan, Flinders University, Australia Charles Weijer, The University of Western Ontario, Canada EDITORIAL BOARD: Godfrey B. Tangwa University of Yaounde, Cameroon Andrew Moore University of Otago, New Zealand Jing-Bao Nie University of Otago, New Zealand Ana BoroveLcki University of Zagreb, Croatia Sarah Edwards University College London, UK Heike Felzmann National University of Ireland, Ireland Annette Rid University of Zurich, Switzerland Mark Sheehan University of Oxford, UK Robert Levine Yale University, USA Alex London Carnegie Mellon University, USA Johnathan Kimmelman McGill University, Canada For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/10602
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