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The technologies of the Cold War have been destabilised. The political and social relations of the arms race countries have been disrupted and institutions dismantled. New concepts are being negotiated to better reflect the emerging networks around military R&D and military technology. This process of negotiations takes different shapes in the East and the West. Although the arms race produced parallel technological innovations in the former Soviet Union and the US the interface between what is considered military and what is civilian technology differ.
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Cronberg, T. (1996). Concepts Of Military Technology: Contesting the boundaries between the civilian and the military. In: Gummett, P., Boutoussov, M., Farkas, J., Rip, A. (eds) Military R&D after the Cold War. NATO ASI Series, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1730-9_3
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