Business & Management Studies

Abstract

Economic nationalists distinguish between victors and losers in war. War can be profitable to the successful participant since the resulting territorial expansion provides new markets, resources, and commercial supremacy, all of which enhance the nation’s industrial production possibilities. Nationalists view the world as being divided into competing national entities. The Aum Shinrikyo cult of Japan launched a series of nerve gas attacks using the gas sarin that they developed themselves. In 1996, 17 scientists from Los Alamos assembled a dozen homemade nuclear bombs using technology available on the shelves of Radio Shack and nuclear fuel available on the black market. Accidents, misunderstandings, and oversights are a normal part of human life. To believe that we can somehow master and control technology especially lethal technology is nothing more than arrogance. The defense establishment focuses on what new technologies can do when often we should consider what they can not do and rethink if the technology is meaningful.