Nanotechnology and homeland security
Subtitle: new weapons for new wars
By: Daniel Ratner, Mark A. Ratner.
Publisher: Prentice Hall/PTR
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
First sentence: The reference to Viet Nam is the only thing that differentiates this portion of John F. Kennedy’s 1961 state of the Union address from one that might be heard today.
Description: A rather wide-ranging once-over lightly of nanoscience and (mostly) nanotechnology, particularly with respect to military applications.
Table of contents: title: Forward
pagenum: xi; title: Preface
pagenum: xvii; label: 1
title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; title: The Great Awakening
pagenum: 1; title: The Case for Nanotechnology
pagenum: 7; label: 2
title: Nanotechnology: What and Why?
pagenum: 11; title: Comments
pagenum: 11; title: What Nanotechnology Is Not
pagenum: 14; title: Major Branches of Research
pagenum: 18; title: Materials
pagenum: 19; title: Sensors
pagenum: 21; title: Biomedical Nanostructures
pagenum: 22; title: Energy
pagenum: 22; title: Electronics
pagenum: 23; title: Optics
pagenum: 24; title: Fabrication
pagenum: 24; title: Why Nanotechnology?
pagenum: 26; label: 3
title: The New Battlespace
pagenum: 29; title: The Changing Face of War
pagenum: 29; title: Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Challenge
pagenum: 34; title: Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Solutions
pagenum: 39; title: Part I: Detection
pagenum: 39; title: Part II: Protection
pagenum: 43; title: Part III: Remediation
pagenum: 46; title: The Modern Soldier
pagenum: 48; title: A Coat of Many Colors
pagenum: 49; title: Comments
pagenum: 51; title: The Man-Machine Interface
pagenum: 49; title: Out of Harm's Way
pagenum: 57; title: Better, Faster, Tougher, Smarter
pagenum: 60; title: Batteries Not Inclued
pagenum: 64; title: The Tip of the Iceberg
pagenum: 64; title: Comments
pagenum: 65; label: 4
title: Homeland Security
pagenum: 67; title: The State of The Nation
pagenum: 67; title: Hardening the Hearts of Cities
pagenum: 69; title: Smelling Smoke
pagenum: 71; title: First Response
pagenum: 72; title: Clean It Up!
pagenum: 74; title: Human Repair
pagenum: 77; title: The Information War
pagenum: 79; title: High-Performance Computing
pagenum: 80; title: Comments
pagenum: 82; title: Cryptography
pagenum: 84; title: Flexible and Pervasive Computing
pagenum: 86; title: System Diversity and Survivability
pagenum: 87; label: 5
title: Environmental and Economic Aspects of Nanoscience
pagenum: 91; title: Fabrication
pagenum: 92; title: Remediation of Ongoing Environmental Issues
pagenum: 96; title: Transportation
pagenum: 99; title: Energy
pagenum: 102; title: Comments
pagenum: 102; title: The Hydrogen Economy
pagenum: 109; title: Domestic Economic Implications
pagenum: 110; title: Global Economic Impact
pagenum: 113; title: The Economics of Security
pagenum: 115; label: 6
title: Society, Ethics, and Geopolitics
pagenum: 117; title: Comments
pagenum: 117; title: Information Tech, Biotech, Nanotech
pagenum: 118; title: Public Policy
pagenum: 120; title: Intellectual Property
pagenum: 123; title: Privacy and Civil Liberties
pagenum: 126; title: Education and Training
pagenum: 128; title: Amorality of Technology
pagenum: 129; title: Vigilance, Awareness, and Responsibility
pagenum: 130; title: Index
pagenum: 135; title: About the Authors
pagenum: 146