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Robert Latiff

Member, Science and Security Board

Robert Latiff retired from the US Air Force as a major general in 2006. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Notre Dame and at George Mason University’s School of Engineering. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Transformative Science and Technology for the Department of Defense. Latiff is the author of Future Peace: Technology, Aggression, and the Rush to War, which looks at the role technology plays in leading us into conflict. He is also the author of Future War: Preparing for the New Global Battlefield.


Articles by Robert Latiff

Visitors check out an infinity chamber at the "Futurium" in Berlin, a venue where significant national and international developments in scientific, technical and social research are to be presented and discussed among the government, the scientific community, industry, and society. (Photo credit: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)

Book excerpt: Urges to violence

By Robert Latiff | Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Weapons, Technology and Security