The increasing salience of 3D printing for nuclear non-proliferation
- A growing number of defense-industrial 3D printing fairs, print-a-thons and the amount of defense dollars, particularly in the US, going into the technology of 3D printing speak to the fact that the defense industry and some countries’ armed forces recognize the great potential of the technology. 3D printing indeed allows the quicker, cheaper, and easier development of weapons, and even entirely new weapon designs. This applies to the full range of weapons categories: Small arms and light weapons (e.g. guns, guns, guns and grenade launchers), conventional weapon systems (drones, tanks, missiles, hypersonic scramjets) – and possibly even weapons of mass destruction.
| Author: | Marco Fey |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-437045 |
| URL: | http://blog.prif.org/2017/06/26/the-increasing-salience-of-3d-printing-for-nuclear-non-proliferation/ |
| Parent Title (German): | PRIF Blog |
| Document Type: | Report |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2017 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2017/06/26 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2017/06/28 |
| Note: | Creative Commons Lizenzvertrag Dieses Werk ist lizenziert unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International Lizenz. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 415422647 |
| Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / Hessische Stiftung für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK) | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Keine Bearbeitung |
