{"id":74,"count":6,"description":"This series of posts is inspired by a conference convened by Prof. Jutta Weber of Paderborn University. The call for papers identified tracking, targeting and predicting as the basic components of a security logic that combines high-tech military and policing techniques in order to pre-empt threats and manage risk. Instead of the massive destruction characteristic of nuclear deterrence, this new security logic depends upon a combination of indiscriminate surveillance and precise targeting: the \"unblinking eye\"  of remotely-piloted vehicles (aka drones) scans patterns of life looking for terrorists and algorithms crawl through \"big data\" searching for key words to identify threats. These surveillance techniques advance the goal of 'a world free of nuclear weapons' by enabling new methods of verifying treaty compliance and tracking the flow of sensitive nuclear materials and are therefore often interpreted as liberating by advocates of nuclear disarmament. However, they also portend a reconfiguration of the relationship between force, power and violence that is already confronting publics with new techno-political decisions about the age-old tradeoff between national security and personal freedom. \r\n\r\n\r\n...\r\n\r\n","link":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/?cat=74","name":"Tracking, Targeting and Predicting","slug":"tracking-targeting-predicting","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nuclearphilosophy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts&categories=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}