Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

A Nuclear Refrain is a spatial fiction that critiques the policy of nuclear deterrence, the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction, and the UK's decision to replace its Vanguard submarines, so-called Trident replacement. We challenge that decision via extending our geographical imaginations into the past, present, and future. Noting the more usual economic, moral, and strategic objections to Trident and its replacement, A Nuclear Refrain considers the issues from less familiar perspectives: the emotional and embodied, empire and the establishment, and the impact on democratic potentialities. Set against the authors' ongoing participation in extensive public protests against the UK's decision to replace Trident in 2016, A Nuclear Refrain disrupts familiar academic and policy forms of writing. It is "an uncomfortable hybrid between academia and fiction," intent on discomfiting the reader to spur the radical reimagining of a world profoundly shaped by the threat of nuclear weapons. Inspired by author and social critic Charles Dickens, this book draws on the form of A Christmas Carol. Transported by "ghosts" of the nuclear past, present and future, a pro-Trident British policy maker, the Right Honourable Roger C. Bezeeneos, has his perceptions sorely challenged. But will Roger allow his feelings to influence his decision-making? Will he recognize the yearning for empire-lost that mobilizes the British establishment? And will he admit the limiting of political participation that a commitment to nuclear deterrence determines? It's your call, Roger."

Nuclear weapons --- Sociology (General). --- Fiction. --- Nuclear weapons. --- Atomic weapons --- Fusion weapons --- Thermonuclear weapons --- Weapons of mass destruction --- No first use (Nuclear strategy) --- Nuclear arms control --- Nuclear disarmament --- Nuclear warfare --- nuclear deterrence --- emotion --- empire --- democracy --- spatial fiction --- nuclear weapons --- disarmament

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Une synthèse sur l'économie de l'industrie de défense mondiale, de la production d'armes jusqu'au marché de l'armement. Qui produit les armes ? Qui vend à qui ? Ce livre décrit et explique les enjeux stratégiques et économiques de la production d'armes dans le monde, à l'heure où détenir une industrie d'armement performante demeure l'ambition de la plupart des grandes puissances, anciennes ou émergentes. Idéal pour mieux comprendre la géopolitique mondiale.

DEFENSE INDUSTRIES --- WEAPONS INDUSTRY --- Defense industries.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Nuclear weapons --- Nuclear nonproliferation --- Terrorism --- Government policy

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Arms transfers --- Military weapons --- Military assistance

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Aegis is a highly integrated U.S. Navy combat system with anti-air warfare, ballistic missile defense, surface, subsurface, and strike roles that is currently operating on 84 ships. To reduce the costs of maintaining the system, and to take advantage of rapidly evolving commercial computing technology, the Navy is moving Aegis toward open-architecture software, a common source code library, and commercial, off-the-shelf processors. As it moves forward in implementing its integrated weapon system (IWS) model for the development, integration, and testing of upgrades to the Aegis weapon system, the Navy must consider the impact of this plan on Aegis facilities, personnel, and timelines. Of particular concern are the effects of new modernization and fielding rates on the technical infrastructure of the Aegis fleet. This report examines the potential benefits of the IWS model and the challenges associated with the transition from the Navy's legacy model for Aegis acquisition and development. It examines the pace of upgrades to both hardware and software and the speed with which they spread throughout the fleet. Finally, it proposes an upgrade schedule that offsets software (advanced capability builds) and hardware (technology insertions) to maximize the Navy's benefit from commercial industry's technology replacement cycle and ensure value for fixed development and testing budgets.

AEGIS (Weapons system) --- Aegis Combat System --- Aegis Weapon System --- Weapons systems