New technologies and international security: effects and developments

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The development of science and technology, while having positive and peaceful effects, can also be used for military and non-peaceful purposes, and can challenge international peace and security. In the conflict between different approaches to national security and international security, the competition between disarmament and deterrence continues. One of the factors influencing the continuation of this is scientific and technological advances that, while contributing to development in various dimensions and levels, like many other phenomena in national security discourses in general and in disarmament circles in particular. The present article tries to examine the effects of the application of scientific and technological advances such as artificial intelligence, cyber, electromagnetism, aerospace, materials technology and finally the chemical and biological field in weapons and methods of warfare on the one hand and the relevant views and positions in Explain the form of disarmament and arms control on the other hand

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