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Weapons & Peace Working Group
Welcome! We're CPSR members dedicated to creating a more peaceful world using our technical insight.
As CPSR members, our mission is to look beyond hype and technological boosterism:
- to analyze the tasks and environments for which computer intensive weapons systems are appropriate,
- to disseminate success stories and cautionary tales relevant to those implementing or managing high tech weapons.
CPSR members may join the Weapons & Peace Working Group via
http://lists.cpsr.org/lists/info/cpsr-computers-peace
CPSR CALLS ON INTERNET COMMUNITY TO PROTEST MALICIOUS HACKING OF ARAB AND FOREIGN NEWS WEB SITES.
Feature Member Article:
War and Information Technology by Chris Hables Gray. Includes a response by James Nugent.Links related to the U.S. versus Iraq War:
Background
"Tracing
the roots of America's war in Iraq" by Gail Russell Chaddock
"Shock &
Awe: Is Baghdad the Next Hiroshima?" by Ira Chernus
Context of the War on Terror:"No
Surprises" by Chris Hables Gray
"War, Peace, and Complex Systems" by Chris Hables Gray
Rumsfeld and the Pentagon "Offense
and Defense" by Seymour Hersh
Media
"War
on the Web" by Jim McClellan
Brown University's Watson Center Project on Infowar and Infopeace
and have some recent articles on embedded journalists
Media
Literacy and the Iraq War
"Akamai
Cancels a Contract for Arabic Network's Site" by Warren St.
John
Oil
"In
the Pipeline: More Regime Change" by Hooman Peimani
Missiles
Tomahawk missiles "Power
Tool" by Oliver Burkeman
"Software
Bug May Cause Patriot Missile Errors" by Paul Roberts
Second Patriot missle failure
Perspectives
"The Bright Side of War" by John MacArthur
"US to
be First to Reap Sad Fruits of the Aggression" Interview with
Russian commentator Valentin Zorin
"Iraqi
resistance 'restores Arab honour'" by Martin Asser
Other Organizations
MoveOn.org: Democracy in
Action
Physicians for
Social Responsibility: Iraq Resource Page
SNOW - Sound Nonviolent
Opponents of War
Rethinking Schools -
Teaching About the War.
Other Discussions
Slashdot's
"Ethical Dilemmas Related to Technology"
Electronic Iraq
Atlanta Peace Activism
Iraq body count
Star Wars
:
The Spring 2001 CPSR Newsletter - Star Wars Still Threatens Us
Fall 96 CPSR Newsletter on Star Wars Members of this working group helped to put out this issue, edited by Carl Page.
CPSR's Star Wars information See CPSR
newsletter index for past issues or articles on Weapons &
PeaceStar Wars remains Expensive Science Fiction
CPSR Awarded the 2001 Norbert Wiener Award to Nira Schwartz and Theodore Postol for their courage in exposing that fiction.
The Physicist Gunning for Star Wars - MIT's Theodore Postol shot down the Patriot's overhyped success in Gulf War I. Now, he's targeting missile defense -- and MIT itself
CPSR Awarded the 1989 Norbert Wiener Award Winner to Daniel McCracken for his work in the late 1960s to organize computer professionals against the deployment of ABM systems.
CPSR Awarded its first Norbert Wiener Award in 1987 to David Parnas for his work to promote software reliability and his campaign to raise public awareness of the technical infeasibility of the Strategic Defense Initiative.
Activists' Web Pages, WG Members' Suggestions, Etc.
Jimmy Hale (Weapons & Peace Working Group Chair)jimmy@fastjimmy.com
Chris Gray
http://www.ugf.edu/CompSci/Cgray/istpg.htm
cgray@ugf.edu
Carl Page
http://carlpage.com
carlp-web@cpsr.org
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