Serious Misapplications of Military Research: Dysfunction between Conception and Implementation

Abstract

Researchers and technologists involved in the development of weapon systems can take their work to such extremes as to cause unplanned injury or death to others and lasting damage to the environment, reviewed here. In some cases innocent human casualties and ecological harm may actually be programmed and achieved. An analysis is proffered, attributing blame, and indicating efforts to correct the situation. The ethics involved are "complexified", a moral boundaries are exceeded, and humanity is transgressed as it develops solutions to the problem.