ABSTRACT
Advances in nuclear military technology arise from military research and development (R & D), the activity that fuels the nuclear arms race. Curtailing military R & D makes good domestic economic sense. Labour productivity, the key to economic success, in countries like the USA and the UK, which employ a large fraction of their scientific and engineering community on military R & D, is much less than that in countries like Japan and Germany, which spend relatively little on military science. The global problems arising from the population explosion, and from poverty are well known. The commonly held view that the very destructiveness of nuclear weapons precludes the outbreak of nuclear war is false. A range of military technologies is being developed that will strengthen military and political perceptions about the possibility of fighting and winning a nuclear war. The most important of these technologies are those related to anti-submarine warfare and anti-ballistic missile systems.
