This book will examine the relationship between the US military and American high technology industries. Chapter 1 reviews and assesses the general debate over the military's effects on the economy and technology. In chapter 2 the author contrasts military and trade policy while chapter 3 reviews the uses of high technologies - particularly microelectronics - in military hardware. In chapter 4 is demonstrated how the military played a decisive role in the genesis of nuclear power. The subject of chapter 5 is the military and semiconductors. The analysis then turns to the individual institutions and people affected by the Pentagon-high-tech partnership. Chapter 6 reports about problems of civilian firms involved in military work. The topics of chapter 7 is university research, industrial innovation and the Pentagon. Chapter 8 explores the role oof the scientist in defense work. Chapter 9 is entitled laboor, automation, and regional development. In chapter 10 the analyses are drawn together to suggest a pattern to the Defense Department's impact on advanced technology. It includes alsoa section that discusses an alternative model for military procurement.
The militarization of high technology
Die Militarisierung der Spitzentechnologie
1984
247 Seiten
Book
English
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