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'Non-Lethal' weapons

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	'Non-Lethal' weapons/ Neil Davison.
Author:	Davison, Neil.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2009.,
Description:	xix, 304 p. ;23 cm.;
Subject:	Nonlethal weapons. -
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230233980

'Non-Lethal' weapons
Davison, Neil.

'Non-Lethal' weapons[electronic resource] /Neil Davison. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - xix, 304 p. ;23 cm. - Global issues series. - Global issues series (Palgrave (Firm)).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-294) and index.

Introduction -- The early history of 'non-lethal' weapons -- 'Non-lethal' weapons in the 1990s -- The contemporary development of 'non-lethal' weapons -- Chemical and biochemical weapons -- Directed energy weapons -- Acoustic weapons -- Conclusion.

Techniques for reducing casualties, torture devices, tools for conflict resolution, or the technology of political control? Ostensibly the major impetus for the development of 'non-lethal' weapons has been to apply force without causing permanent injury or death, thereby reducing the need forlethal force. This book sheds light on a more complex story, with varied drivers, contradictory policy, premeditated and unanticipated results, and challenges to social, ethical and legal norms. Withparticular attention to the ongoing development of drugs, lasers, microwaves, and acoustics as incapacitating weapons, it provides an up-to-date analysis of the key technologies and weapons programmes, and highlights the major policy issues and concerns. There has been much conjecture about new andemerging 'non-lethal' weapons. This book separates whatis known from the speculation about developments at this intersection of technology and weapons development.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230233980

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230233980doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

307163
Nonlethal weapons.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

96803
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: U795 / .D39 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 355.8

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