Weapons Of Humanity

Author : Timothy Reed
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781717865557
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weapons of Humanity written by Timothy Reed and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy named Oden prepares for the next stage in his life after high school, when he is unwillingly thrust into an extraordinary situation. With his friends at his side, Oden faces unnatural enemies as his connection to everything around him starts to unfold.

Author : Avner Cohen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847672585
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Weapons and the Future of Humanity written by Avner Cohen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1986 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The excellent quality and depth of the various essays make [the book] an invaluable resource....It is likely to become essential reading in its field.--CHOICE

Author : Nehal Bhuta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107153565
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autonomous Weapons Systems written by Nehal Bhuta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of the implications and regulation of autonomous weapons systems combines contributions from law, robotics and philosophy.

Author : Stuart Casey-Maslen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110702787X
Total Pages : 683 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weapons Under International Human Rights Law written by Stuart Casey-Maslen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 683 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on how human rights would regulate non-lethal weapons through the growing interplay between humanitarian law and human rights law.

Author : Mauri, Diego
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802207678
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Protection of the Human Person written by Mauri, Diego and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to understand how public organizations adapt to and manage situations characterized by fluidity, ambiguity, complexity and unclear technologies, thus exploring public governance in times of turbulence.

Author : Dan Saxon
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812298187
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting Machines written by Dan Saxon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-12-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lethal autonomous weapons are weapon systems that can select and destroy targets without intervention by a human operator. Fighting Machines explores the relationship between lethal autonomous weapons (LAWS), the concept of human dignity, and international law. Much of this analysis speaks to three fundamental and related problems: When a LAWS takes a human life, is that killing a violation of human dignity? Can states and non-state actors use LAWS in accordance with international law? And are there certain responsibilities of human decision-making during wartime that we should not delegate to machines? In the book, Dan Saxon argues that the use of LAWS to take human life constitutes a violation of human dignity. Rather than concentrating on the victims of the use of lethal force, Saxon instead focuses on the technology and relevant legal principles and rules to advance several propositions. First, as LAWS operate at increasingly greater speeds, their use will undermine the opportunities for, and the value of, human reasoning and judgment. Second, by transferring responsibility for reasoning and judgment about the use of lethal force to computer software, the use of LAWS violates the dignity of the soldiers, commanders, and law enforcement officers who historically have made such decisions, and, therefore, breaches international law. Third, weapon designs that facilitate teamwork between humans and autonomous systems are necessary to ensure that humans and LAWS can operate interdependently so that individuals can fulfil their obligations under international law—including the preservation of their own dignity—and ensure that human reasoning and judgment are available for cognitive functions better suited to humans than machines. Fighting Machines speaks to the fields of international humanitarian law, human rights, criminal law, and legal philosophy. It will also be of interest to non-lawyers, especially military officers, government policy makers, political scientists, and international relations scholars, as well as roboticists and ethicists.

Author : Banu Bargu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231163401
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Starve and Immolate written by Banu Bargu and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starve and Immolate tells the story of leftist political prisoners in Turkey who waged a deadly struggle against the introduction of high security prisons by forging their lives into weapons. Through an innovative approach that weaves together contemporary and critical political theory with political ethnography, Starve and Immolate analyzes the death fast struggle as an exemplary but not exceptional instance of self-destructive practices that should be understood as a consequence of, retort to, and refusal of the increasingly biopolitical forms of sovereign power deployed as a response to terrorism around the globe. The Turkish stateÕs pursuit of high security prisons based on cellular confinement, which would reconfigure traditional wards allowing political prisoners to live a communism in practice, led to a protracted movement in which dozens of political prisoners starved and immolated themselves. Banu Bargu chronicles the experiences, rituals, values, beliefs, ideological self-representations, and contentions of these protesters against the history of Turkish democracy and the treatment of dissent in a country where prisons have become sites of political confrontation. Bargu connects the increasing turn to self-destructive practices with the revamping of Turkish state sovereignty through a process of biopolitical securitization against terrorism. A critical response to Michel FoucaultÕs Discipline and Punish, Starve and Immolate centers on new forms of struggle that arise from the asymmetric antagonism between the state and its contestants in the contemporary prison. Bargu ultimately positions the weaponization of life as an emergent repertoire of political action, a bleak, violent, and ambivalent form of insurgent politics that seeks to wrench the power of life and death away from the modern state on corporeal grounds and increasingly theologized forms. Drawing attention to the existential commitment, sacrificial morality, and militant martyrdom that transforms these struggles into a complex amalgam of resistance, Bargu advances a critical-theoretical interpretation of human weapons that explores the global ramifications of their practices of resistance, as well as their possibilities and limitations.

Author : Nehal Bhuta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316720993
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Autonomous Weapons Systems written by Nehal Bhuta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intense and polemical debate over the legality and morality of weapons systems to which human cognitive functions are delegated (up to and including the capacity to select targets and release weapons without further human intervention) addresses a phenomena which does not yet exist but which is widely claimed to be emergent. This groundbreaking collection combines contributions from roboticists, legal scholars, philosophers and sociologists of science in order to recast the debate in a manner that clarifies key areas and articulates questions for future research. The contributors develop insights with direct policy relevance, including who bears responsibility for autonomous weapons systems, whether they would violate fundamental ethical and legal norms, and how to regulate their development. It is essential reading for those concerned about this emerging phenomenon and its consequences for the future of humanity.

Author : David Krieger
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412814901
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons written by David Krieger and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the more than sixty years since the advent of nuclear weapons, there has been little meaningful progress toward nuclear disarmament. Some countries have nuclear weapons, while other states are forbidden to acquire them, a status quo that lacks rational basis and cannot be sustained. In this remarkable collection, scholars and policy analysts argue that humankind has a choice: either allow nuclear weapons to continue to proliferate throughout the world or move toward their complete elimination. The vast majority of people on the planet would surely opt to abolish nuclear weapons. But decisions about nuclear weapons are not made by the public, but by small groups of political elites. Consequently, in a world with nuclear weapons, the fate of humanity rests in the hands of a small number of individuals, whose perceptions, communications, and judgment determine whether there is to be a future. The contributors to this volume provide historical perspective on nuclear weapons policy; explore the role of international law in furthering the prospects of nuclear weapons abolition; consider the obstacles to abolition; present a path to achieving a nuclear weapons-free world; and look beyond abolition to consider issues of post-abolition sovereignty and general and complete disarmament. The goal of a nuclear weapons-free world can be awakened by an engaged citizenry bringing pressure from below in demanding action from political leaders. This book contributes to this awakening and engagement.

Author : Jonathan L. Black-Branch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110849305X
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons written by Jonathan L. Black-Branch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons within the contemporary nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament security architecture.