 Why is weapon development ethics important for

engineers ?
Factors contributing weapon
development

Tracing the path of weapon

development

Consequences of unethical use of weapons

Concluding remarks
Ethics is a branch of philosophy 
that addresses questions morality
that is, concepts such as good and
evil, right and wrong, justice, virtue,
etc

-Wikipedia
 Defence industry is one of the largest employer
 worldwide
Decide accordingly whether to work in the area of 
 weapon development
 Weapon developing engineering requires stringent
examinations of ethical issues to ensure responsible
 Designed to kill human beings


Many ethical professionals will refuse to engage



in weapon designing
Change in opinion if national interests are not guaranteed


Morally responsible engineers find this to be ethically 



acceptable
 Think tanks
DOD Science Boards

Government
 Autonomous Contractor wins Contractor
DOD Needs and
 Weapon  Autonomous Battlefield
Procurements
Procurement  Weapon project GOOD
BA D
Designers
 War Rules
DOD
DOD Doctrine System
Funding & Design
Treaties
Get us more bang
Ethicists E ngineering Intended Collateral
for the buck!
Results Damage
Testing, Validation
 Verification Field
Deployment
& Use

Sensor
Policy   Artificial
 Algorithms  Actuators and
Interface Intelligence
 Weapons Interface
Sensors
Technological Developments

Rise of terrorism
 Race to supremacy 

Threat to National Security 

Use of weapons in an unethical manner leads to
loss of lives, infrastructure and capital
Unethical display of weapons may promote anti
national activities within a country 

Countries all over the globe must take steps in

promoting a safer nuclear weapon free planet

Professionals must avoid in working on any 

projects which they deem to be UN ETHICAL
even if it leads to a CAR EER A D VANCEMENT !
- Jonathan Granoff 
- Answersingenesis.org
- Engineering ethics by M. Govindarajan
- IEEE : Robotics, Computational, Intelligence,
and Cybernetics chapter
- Wikipedia.org

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Instablogs.com
Nonprofitday.org
- Prosbeforehos.com
- Realclearworld.com