This book offers a collection of texts by Carl Friedrich von Weizsaecker (1912-2007), a major German universal scientist who was also a pioneer in physics, philosophy, religion on issues of politics and peace research. He worked with Werner Heisenberg and Otto Hahn in the German Uranverein, obtained a patent for plutonium during World War II and was an opponent of the nuclear armament of the German armed forces (1957). Furthermore, he published a study on the inability to defend Germany (1971) that was instrumental in the debate on defensive defense since the mid 1970s. He wrote on war and peace, peace and truth, policy implications of nuclear energy, on ethical issues of modern strategy, on consequences of war and war prevention and on the theory of power. He coined the term world domestic policy which still covers a valid theory for political, institutional secured world peace in the atomic age.

Selection of key texts of a major German universal scientist and thinker of the 20th century appears for the first time in English Essential texts by one of the most important physicists and philosophers, on physics, philosophy, religion, politics and peace research Texts on war and peace, peace and truth, policy implications of nuclear energy, world domestic policy, ethical issues of modern strategy, and consequences of war Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

We Have to Eliminate the Institution of War! Introduction by the Editor to Selected Political Texts of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.- Overcoming the Institution of War.- Rethinking War and Politics in the Atomic Era.- World Domestic Policy.- Rules of International Politics.- Insecure Peace.- The Consequences of Atomic Warfare as Reason for its Prevention.- Anthropology of Power.- The Real Presence of War Risk.