Unless Peace Comes

by Nigel Calder (Editor), William A. Nierenberg (Contributor), Vladimir Dedijer (Contributor)

warfare : battlefields of the 1980s / André Beaufre -- Guerrilla warfare : the poor man's power / Vladimir Dedijer -- Nuclear weapons I : the perils of nuclear proliferation / Sir John Cockcroft -- Nuclear weapons II : the outlook for nuclear explosives / David Inglis -- Aircraft, missiles, and spacecraft : contests in the sky / Andrew Stratton -- Computers in warfare : the strategic calculators / Harvey Wheeler -- Undersea warfare : militarized oceans / William A. Nierenberg -- Chemical weapons : the toxic arsenal / Marcel Fetizon and Michel Magat -- Microbiological weapons : the infectious dust cloud / Carl-Göran Hedén -- Self-controlling weapons : robots on the march / M.W. Thring -- Geophysical warfare : how to wreck the environment / Gordon J.F. MacDonald -- Implications I : fears of a psychologist / Otto Klineberg -- Implications II : we have been here before / Philip Noel-Baker -- Summary : the new weapons / Nigel Calder.

243 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1968

Reviews

[Patrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

An look from 1965 on future warfare especially nuclear weapons. Some of the technical stuff isn't that interesting. Some articles are a nice read, the on that predicts giant centipede nuclear robots and the one about climate warfare.

One article of Vladimir Dedijer states that nothing can kill guerrilla warfare except mass murder.

[Steven Sidman · Rating 4 out of 5]

The future, as viewed by the now distant past. I read this as an undergraduate in the 60s.