Impact of New Technologies on the Arms Race: A Pugwash Monograph by B. T. Feld (Editor); T. Greenwood (Editor); G. W. Rathjens (Editor); S. Weinberg - January 1971

Cambridge: MIT Press, January 1971. Trade Paperback. Very Good+. Interior pristine. Spine straight, tight and uncreased. Dust stains to edges. Light rubbing and slight edge wear to covers. Not from a library. Not a remainder. Not clipped. 404 pages.

This is the record of the 10th Pugwash Symposium, which brought together participants from the United States, the Soviet Union, England, France, West Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Israel and India. The discussions that resulted include both "hard" technical analysis of specific weapons systems and assessments of long-range tendencies of a necessarily general and exploratory nature. One goal of the symposium was to trace the paths by which known and foreseeable technologies could be transferred both into weapons and into arms control devices. The first of the book's four sections is concerned with applications of new technology to ballistic-missile guidance and to nuclear weapons, including the possible military significance of the (as yet undiscovered) superheavy elements. Reconnaissance and surveillance as arms controlling elements, the performance of ABM systems, and offensive and defensive ocean technology are also treated in detail. The second section discusses the safeguarding of nuclear materials and installations and the problems of nuclear weapons proliferation arising from the expansion of nuclear power production. Military research and development is the subject of the third section, which investigates both the growth characteristics of military systems and problems of controlling their development or their elimination. The final section is devoted to some political implications of the subject.