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The term ‘conversion’ implies a deep change. It involves a radical transformation. When applied to military industries the idea of conversion recalls the age-old vision of a society without war in which swords would be turned into plowshares.
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Jan Oberg, ‘Is the Conversion Idea to be Converted? Some Sceptical Comments from a Non-Convert,’ in Militarization and Arms Production, ed. Helena Tuomi and Raimo Vayrynen (Beckenham: Croom Helm, 1983), p. 295.
See Council for Science and Society, UK Military R&D (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986);
and Ian Davis, Military R&D in Europe: Collaboration Without Control?, Current Decisions Report No. 11 (Oxford: Oxford Research Group, October 1992), p. iv.
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), Relationships Between Defence & Civil Science and Technology (London: POST, May 1991), p. 4.
Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, Conversion and Diversification of Defence Technology and Manufacturing (London: POST, October 1992), p. 7.
Inga Thorsson, In Pursuit of Disarmament: Conversion from Military to Civil Production in Sweden, 2 vols. (Stockholm: Liber, 1984–85), 1A, p. 301.
See, for instance, Robert DeGrasse, Jr., Military Expansion, Economic Decline: The Impact of Military Spending on U.S. Economic Performance (New York: M.E. Sharp with Council on Economic Priorities, 1983);
and Malcolm Chalmers, Paying for Defence: Military Spending and British Decline (London: Pluto Press, 1985).
Peter Southwood, Disarming Military Industries: Turning an Outbreak of Peace into an Enduring Legacy (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1991).
K. Adelman and N. Augustine, ‘Defense Conversion: Bulldozing the Management,’ Foreign Affairs 71 (Spring 1992), pp. 26–47.
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Southwood, P., Andreev, Y. (1998). Conversion of Military R&D: Concepts and Complications. In: Reppy, J. (eds) Conversion of Military R & D. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14886-8_5
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