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Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts on Politics and Peace Research

By Ulrich Bartosch (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2015
ISBN
978-3-319-13307-2, 978-3-319-13308-9
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-13308-9
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3873205 bytes)
Series
SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice 25
Edition
1
Pages
143\153
Time added
2015-07-18 18:00:00
general; Particle and Nuclear PhysicsPolitical Science

Description

This book offers a collection of texts by Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker (1912-2007), a major German universal scientist who was also a pioneer in physics, philosophy, religion on issues of politics and peace research. He worked with Werner Heisenberg and Otto Hahn in the German “Uranverein”, obtained a patent for plutonium during World War II and was an opponent of the nuclear armament of the German armed forces (1957). Furthermore, he published a study on the inability to defend Germany (1971) that was instrumental in the debate on defensive defense since the mid 1970s. He wrote on war and peace, peace and truth, policy implications of nuclear energy, on ethical issues of modern strategy, on consequences of war and war prevention and on the theory of power. He coined the term “world domestic policy” which still covers a valid theory for political, institutional secured world peace in the atomic age.

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