@article{ref1,
title="Are new technologies undermining the laws of war?",
journal="Bulletin of the atomic scientists  (1974)",
year="2014",
author="Allenby, Braden R.",
volume="70",
number="1",
pages="21-31",
abstract="Throughout history, new military technologies have had profound ramifications: The rise of gunpowder and cannon created economies of scale that encouraged the emergence of nation-states, and Prussia used railroads to surprise the Austrians at Königgrätz, beginning the end of the Austrian Empire. Today, emerging military technologies--including unmanned aerial vehicles, directed-energy weapons, lethal autonomous robots, and cyber weapons--raise the prospect of upheavals in military practice so fundamental that they challenge assumptions underlying long-established international laws of war, particularly those relating to the primacy of the state and the geographic bounds of warfare. But the laws of war have been developed over a long period, with commentary and input from many cultures. What would seem appropriate in this age of extraordinary technological change, the author concludes, is a reconsideration of the laws of war in a deliberate and focused international dialogue that includes a range of cultural and institutional perspectives.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-3402",
doi="10.1177/0096340213516741",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096340213516741"
}