Conversion of military R&D / edited by Judith Reppy ; associate editors, Joseph Rotblat, John Holdren, Vsevolod Avduyevsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reppy, Judith, 1937-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military research.

Economic conversion.

Nuclear weapons industry.

Physical Description:

xiv, 296 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Summary:

This book describes the scale, benefits and costs of military R&D. It discusses the process of converting military R&D to civilian applications, and examines specific opportunities for, and obstacles to, conversion in the US, Russia, France, Germany and the UK. Among a number of case studies, senior scientists from US and Russian nuclear weapons laboratories debate the futures for these massive complexes.

Contents:

Part I Setting the Context

1 Levels and Trends in International Spending for Military R&D / Judith Reppy 37

2 Benefits and Costs of Military R&D / Philip Gummett, Josephine Anne Stein 47

Part II Conversion of Military R&D

3 Conversion of Military R&D: Concepts and Complications / Peter Southwood, Yuri Andreev 65

4 Conversion of Military R&D in the U.S. Context / Adam Yarmolinsky 85

5 Transforming the Russian Economy / Ivan Maslennikov 97

6 The Dashed Hopes for Conversion of U.S. Military R&D / John Tepper Marlin 111

7 The Conversion of Military R&D in the Russian Arms Industry / Mikhail Nikitin 133

8 Conversion of Military R&D: The French Case / Jean-Paul Hebert 147

9 Dual-Use and Conversion of Military-Related R&D in Germany / Jurgen Altmann, Wolfgang Liebert, Gotz Neuneck, Jurgen Scheffran 163

10 Conversion of R&D: The UK Case / Tom Milne 183

Part III Specific Opportunities and Challenges

11 Conversion of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Laboratories / Ray E. Kidder 201

12 Conversion Problems of Russian Nuclear Weapons Centers / Evgeny Avrorin 215

13 The Problem of Conversion in the U.S. Military Electronics Industry / Jack Ruina 227

14 Conversion of Space R&D / Nikolai Anfimov, Nikolai Severtsev 239

Part IV The Way Forward

15 Preventive Arms Control as a Prerequisite for Conversion of Military-Related R&D / Jurgen Altmann, Wolfgang Liebert, Gotz Neuneck, Jurgen Scheffran 255

16 Ambiguous Civilian R&D: Preventing Destabilizing Military Applications / Wim A. Smit 273.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0312218028

OCLC:

39261793