The Dangers of New Weapon Systems

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-10
The Process of New Weapons Development....Pages 11-21
Directed Energy Weapons — Feasibility and Effectiveness....Pages 22-32
Trends in the Improvement of Conventional Offensive Weapons: The Tank and Boundaries in the Technological Arms Race....Pages 33-50
The Effect of New Military Technology on Future Battlefield Tactics and the Structure of Armed Forces....Pages 51-73
Front Matter....Pages 77-77
Some Criteria for Assessing Dangers in New Weapons Development....Pages 79-85
Assessment of Dangers in New Weapons....Pages 86-90
Thresholds and Deterrence Credibility: the European Perspective....Pages 91-112
New Nuclear Weapon Systems and Concepts for Limiting Nuclear Warfare....Pages 113-130
Criteria for Evaluation of New Weapon Systems: Their Future Relevancy and Effectiveness....Pages 131-136
Some Reflections on the Eroding Thresholds....Pages 137-144
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Quasinuclear Weapons....Pages 151-165
New Weapons Technology and the Concept of Nuclear Threshold: An Appraisal of the Relationship....Pages 166-178
Threshold Concepts in the Security Problem from the Perspective of the Smaller Nation States....Pages 179-190
The Failure of Arms Control in coping with New Weapons Technologies and with Technological Change — Conceptual and Institutional Deficits and Reform Options....Pages 191-217
Arms Control and Conventional Weapons....Pages 218-239
Back Matter....Pages 240-241