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... of the damage that war itself inflicts on this environment, but outside of the effects of nuclear weapons production and testing, little attention has been given to the environmental effects of preparation for war. The purpose of this essay is to help rectify this unfortunate state of affairs. Thus, we present...

...Claire Duncanson; Catherine Eschle Abstract This article enquires into the connections between gender and discourses of the nuclear weapons state. Specifically, we develop an analysis of the ways in which gender operates in the White Paper published by the UK government in 2006 on its plans...

...Ido Oren; Ty Solomon Abstract The danger posed by “weapons of mass destruction” (WMD) was the Bush administration’s chief justification for invading Iraq. Amid the din of the chorus that ceaselessly repeated this phrase in 2002-2003, hardly anyone stopped to ask: what is “WMD” anyway...

... authoritarian and democratic sides with symbolic weapons cultivated in the Korean tradition of “Confucian moralpolitik”. By seeing Confucianism as a set of semiotic practices, the article problematizes the contemporary discussion of “Confucian democracy” that heavily glosses over its contrasting dimensions...

... attacks. It involves far-reaching changes in the US armed forces, including high-tech innovations, weaponization of space, new global flexibility, overall growth of the war economy, a bolstering of Empire through economic globalization, military interventions in the Middle East and beyond. As in the past...

... strikes and its application in the 2003 Iraq invasion, concluding with a critique of unilateralism and militarism, and defense of multilateral and global solutions to problems such as terrorism, so-called “weapons of mass destruction,” and “rogue regimes.” © 2004 Caucus for a New Political Science 2004...

...Laurie Calhoun Abstract Soldiers have been held in high regard throughout history by many diverse societies. But what does it really mean to be a soldier in the modern world? Because the dynamics and weapons of warfare have transformed radically in recent times, the romantic image of the courageous...

... the space for political action. While the ideology is formally wedded to the pursuit of the “sublime object” of a world without nuclear weapons, its underlying assumptions imply that the grand vision of abolition can never be realized in practice. To overcome the status quo, agents of change must subvert...

... the ways Bush II intensifies the dangers of high-tech war while undermining efforts at collective security, environmental protection, and global peace. The argument here is that the volatile mixture of highly regressive, unilateralist, and militarist tendencies combined with high-tech weapons provides...

... over nuclear weapons, EP Thompson argued that the logic of deterrence represented the final stage of civilization, or “exterminism.” This effort explores key issues that this new geologic history presents, in particular the loss of historical sensibility, through the lens of Thompson’s concept...

...," but I do not know any university that is not a bourgeois university. What is the role of the university in the entire structure of the state and society? For the natural and social scientist the answer is very clear. The university is a factory that makes weapons - ideological weapons - for class...

... supposedly intended to make Hussein jettison his "weapons of mass destruction" and cease his human right violations. Having bombed a small, oil-rich country into submission, the US was able to enter the post-Cold War era as the only legitimate superpower-a nation prepared to oversee the entire New World...

... dictator, previously supported by US administrations, was not the final object of US policy. Nor was the reputed search for absent weapons of mass destruction, the purported reason for US military advances. The promise of direct US military and political control over Iraq involved another vision, one kept...

... than in the past. Not only have chemical and biological weapons been employed against Koreans, Vietnamese, Cubans, Kurds and Iranians, but "conventional" ordinance such as mines, bombs, rockets, etc., have been targeted with both greater intensity and overall magnitude. u.S. bomb totals dropped...

... actions in the Middle East: longtime support for Israel against the Palestinians, the deadly bombings and sanctions against Iraq, military bases established in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and elsewhere in the region, support for harsh authoritarian regimes, massive weapons sales to all parties, and so forth...

..., which women are commanded to regard as distinct from fantasy. A saber penetrating a vagina is a weapon; so is the camera or pen that renders it; so is the penis for which it substitutes (vagina literally means sheath). The persons who produce the image are also weapons as men deployed in war become...

... resort to extreme strategies of defeating terrorists, games present the effects of violence as being fairly limited and benign. They give the impression that a total war against terrorism, even one involving the use of torture, extrajudicial killings, unrestricted drone strikes, and nuclear weapons, can...

... that because of certain budgeting practices, many "military" or "defense" spending figures significantly understate real military spending and costs by excluding, for example, spending for veteran's affairs ($30 billion for 2005), nuclear weapons programs within the Department of Energy, environmental...

... of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009, 254 pp. Since people first learned of the possibilities of nuclear weapons, some have protested, calling for an end to their development, deployment, and military use, and then calling for arms control. This started...

... George Katsiaficas policy. Recently, North Korea was named by the US as one of the producers of weapons of mass destruction, and some Congressional Republicans called on Bush to take a firm hand with Iraq and North Korea. Opinion polls show 78% of Americans favor war with Iraq.2 On November 25...