Conventional, Engineering, National & International Security, Military, Political Science, Military Sciences 

In this wide- ranging and innovation new book, Jacques Richardson documents the application of scientific research to the evolution of model weapons, including some of the most lethal, such as nuclear – tipped missiles, biological agents, poison gas, silent submarines and stealth aircraft. He shows how the natural, engineering, information and environmental sciences are thoroughly exploited- and how social science is applied to recruitment, battlefield management and logistics, as well as the careful preparation of terrorist act.
Military needs alone gave birth to ‘big science’ only three generations ago. Today’s military-industrial complex depends on creative research to conceive of novel and more efficient weapons; even the most well-intentioned citizen can no longer consider science to be neutral. And using this the same science , terrorists can act against civil society.
The author poses the important question of whether paraphrasing Clausewilz, we have allowed science to become an extension of war by other means’, it is true, he notes, that we have allowed the benign’ natural philosophy’ of the eighteenth century to become the accomplice of ever-bloodier armed conflict and now, in turn, of international terrorism.
Modern arms are the result of streamlined co-operation between laboratory investigation, designers, manufacturers and client governments. The killing power of the best – equipped fighters, therefore, depends on scientific imagination- how thoroughly research imagines, tests and proves the effectiveness of new means to destroy. Ironically, much military invention also serves the public well
Around the world up to 60 percent of scientific research has been funded by over half the costs of scientific and their laboratories are funded by defence budgets. And it was money spent on military research and development during the cold war that broke the soviet economy. In conclusion the author examine whether governments can, would or should continue to be so generous with the research community in the year to come.
Well researched and accessibly written, war, science and terrorism will appeal to scholars of military history and terrorism, as well as general readers with an interest in the developments that have shaped the modern world.
 

Describes the application of research to the evolution of weapons. It shows how natural, engineering, information and environmental sciences are exploited how even social science is applied to recruitment, battlefield and logistical management, and careful preparation of terroristic acts. - from Amzon 

Part I Preparation for Conflict..................................................................p. 1
1. From Bows and Arrows to Missiles and Aircraft......................................p. 5
2. The Real Stakes in the Space Adventure are Military..............................p. 25
3. Slipping the Warrior beneath the Seas.................................................p. 44
4. The German and Anglo-American Race to Nuclear Armament..................p. 71
5. Russia and Other Powers Hurry to Catch up with the Nucleu....................p. 95
6. Optimizing Human Resources: Procurement, Training, Management.........p. 115
Part II Warfare and Its Management..................................................p. 139
7. Endologistics: Forts, Food, Feed, Fuel and Freight..................................p. 143
8. Exologistics: How the Natural Environment Conditions Battle...................p. 168
9. Communicating, Commanding, Controlling ... and a Little Deception.........p. 188
10. From Military Aviation's Radar to Computer Notebooks..........................p. 215
11. Military Medicine Saves Fighting Strength............................................p. 223
12. Simulating Strategy, Operations, Tactics .............................................p. 253
Part III Behind the Action, and Wars to Come........................................p. 281
13. Who Are the Scientists Working with the Military?..................................p. 283
14. What Role for the Scientist in Future Wars?...........................................p. 306
Afterword.......................................................................................p. 323