Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book reviews the social, political, cultural, ethical and military dimensions of lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS). The book uncovers the practices that construct LAWS as both a technological reality and a futuristic possibility in military and political contexts. “This book lays bare a chilling paradox: Autonomous Weapon Systems are products of the same technical rationality proposed for their control.” Tero Karppi, University of Toronto Thomas Christian Bächle is Head of the Digital Society Research Programme at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin and Researcher at the University of Bonn. Jascha Bareis is Researcher at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Associate Researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society.