ABSTRACT
Jonathan Moreno was onto something big when he published the first academic book on military neuroscience in 2006. This was at the very beginning of the trend of the US military exploring military applications for civilian research in neuroscience (Moreno, 2006a). Since then, the American National Research Council and the Royal Society have issued several studies that relate to neuroscience and security, which form the basis for this monograph. The goal is to go beyond this established body of literature and to theorize about the relevance of military neuroscience to contemporary warfare. The main argument presented here is that possible future breakthroughs in neuroscience have the potential to fundamentally alter human society, human consciousness, warfare and security. This could make the human mind a distinctive new domain of war. Systematic efforts of dominating this new domain could be termed ‘neurowarfare’, which will be sketched in this book. The new ‘mind control’ weapons could turn populations into new WMD, or result in new forms political repression. In anticipation of these threats, the book advocates radical transparency in the field of military neuroscience and international arms control regulation of future neuroweapons.
