02950cam a22004092u 4500 5429687 BD-DhUL 20170508185748.0 he u||024|||| 080220s1983 xxu ||| b ||| | eng d 9780916468545 : $2.00 0916468542 : $2.00 ED233950 ERIC ericd eng BD-DhUL MvI BD-DhUL 363.70526 DEW Deudney, Daniel. Whole Earth Security A Geopolitics of Peace. Worldwatch Paper 55 / Daniel Deudney. Washington, D.C. : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1983. 96 p. Availability: Worldwatch Institute, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20036 ($2.00). ericd ERIC Note: Financial support for this paper was provided by the Gund Foundation. ericd The current use and potential of technology for achieving security and peace are explored. Section 1 traces the use of technology for warfare through the mastery of ocean-going sailing, the maturation of the airplane, and the development of nuclear weapons. This section suggests that these developments have led to a loss rather than an increase in security. Section 2 discusses the "transparency revolution," which refers to the military reconnaissance, sensing, command, and communication systems literally wiring the earth with a web of electronic intelligence. Section 3 focuses on current military strategies: mutually assured destruction (MAD), nuclear utilization theories (NUTS), and, according to the author's personal projection, destruction-entrusted automatic devices (DEAD). The differences in these strategies are explained: to start a war in the MAD era would have required a major political misjudgment; in NUTS, a major human error; in DEAD, a major machine malfunction. Section 4 outlines elements of planetary security. It suggests that the same transparent technology now pushing superpower military competition to its most dangerous level can be used to construct an alternative security system. Section 5 promotes good neighbor politics. The final section concludes with the notion that while technology may have overwhelmed human ethical capabilities, it has not overwhelmed our passion for security. (KC) Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive. Global Approach. ericd Modern History. ericd Nuclear Warfare. ericd Peace. ericd Political Issues. ericd Security (Psychology) ericd Technological Advancement. ericd World Problems. ericd Interdependence Opinion Papers. ericd Worldwatch Inst., Washington, DC. http://www.eric.ed.gov/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED233950 ddc BK 194696 194696 0 0 ddc 0 363_705260000000000_DEW 1 NFIC 331675 DUL DUL AAC 2017-05-08 Gift 363.70526 DEW 435834 2017-05-08 2017-05-08 BK