Rethinking ‘Secrecy’ and ‘Disclosure’: What Science and Technology Studies Can Offer Attempts to Govern WMD Threats

New Security Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 45-65

  Rappert, Brian ^a   Balmer, Brian ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Biological Weapon; Moral Economy; Nuclear Weapon; Tacit Knowledge; Weapon Programme

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049341467     PISSN: 27310329     EISSN: 27310337     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230591882_3     Document Type: Chapter

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