The Just War Theory and the Ethical Governance of Research.
This article analyses current trends in and future expectations of nanotechnology and other key enabling technologies for security as well as dual use nanotechnology from the perspective of the ethical Just War Theory (JWT), interpreted as an instrument to increase the threshold for using armed forc...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 461 - 487 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2013
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