Arms negotiation and control

Arms control and missile defense are once again at the forefront of the American national security agenda.

India's growing affluence has led experts to predict a major rearmament effort.

For nearly fifty years, including the decade and a half since the end of the Cold War, deterrence has remained the central nuclear arms control policy between the United States, Russia, and other principal nuclear powers.

More than half a century after the advent of the nuclear age, is the world approaching a tipping point that will unleash an epidemic of nuclear proliferation?

America's three most recent wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq have raised profound questions about when to use military force, for what purpose, and who should make the decision whether to go to war.

North Korea's development of nuclear weapons raises fears of nuclear war on the peninsula and the specter of terrorists gaining access to weapons of mass destruction.

In this era of globalization, the world is facing a host of challenging security problemsfrom the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to international terrorism to accelerating climate change to energy securitythat cannot be resolved unilaterally, especially through the unilateral use of military force.

China's diplomatic strategy has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s, creating both challenges and opportunities for other world powers.

Economic growth and burgeoning populations have put South Asia's energy security in a perilous state.

India is now enmeshed in the deterrence gameactively with its traditional adversary Pakistan, and potentially with China.

Global power is shifting to Asia.

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India has long been motivated to modernize its military, and it now has the resources.

Turkey, with a robust modern economy and growing energy needs, is pursuing a switch to nuclear power.

The International Criminal Court remains a sensitive issue in U.

For some observers, nuclear arms control is either a relic of the cold war, or a utopian dream about a denuclearized planet decades in the future.

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"e;"e;Iraq is rapidly descending into all-out civil war.

Adopted in April 2004, UN Security Council Resolution 1540 obliges all states to take steps to prevent non-state actors, especially terrorist organizations and arms traffickers, from acquiring weapons of mass destruction and related materials.

Space has been militarized for over four decades.

In this revised edition of the highly praised Engaging India, Strobe Talbott updates his bestselling diplomatic account of America's parallel negotiations with India and Pakistan over nuclear proliferation in the late 1990s.

The definitive textbook from one of the most-cited scholars in the field of peace and conflict research.

The definitive textbook from one of the most-cited scholars in the field of peace and conflict research.

American critics who deeply fear a "e;China threat"e; have unduly influenced government policy.

Water resources and related issues are of great significance in 21st century politics.

How the character of war is changing and how militaries can successfully adapt to meet the challenge This book by military strategist Andrew F.

The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast Atomic Hobo**A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK and A GUARDIAN BEST PAPERBACK FOR APRIL 2024 **'So entertaining' THE TIMES'Cracking' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHThe atomic bombs of 1945 changed everything.

A journalist and military historian's in-depth look at the reclusive rogue nation, its ruling dynasty, and the ongoing threat it presents.

It is sixty years since the events of October 1962 brought the world close to nuclear catastrophe.

The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, volume 42 (Part II): 2017, with a foreword by the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, summarizes developments and trends in 2017 on key issues of multilateral consideration at the international and regional levels; reviews the activity of the General Assembly, the Conference on Disarmament and the Disarmament Commission; and contains a handy timeline of highlights of multilateral disarmament in 2017.

Once dismissed as ineffectual, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has in the past twenty years emerged as a powerful international organization.

Does state acquisition of nuclear weapons lead to stability and peace or instability and crises?

On November 10, 2017, Pope Francis became the first pontiff in the nuclear era to take a complete stand against nuclear weapons, even as a form of deterrence.

Are NATOs mutual security commitments strong enough today to deter all adversaries?

North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies.

Are nuclear arsenals safe from cyber-attack?

A unique overview of the United States current nuclear command, control, and communications system and its modernization for the digital ageConcerns about the security of nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) systems are not new, but they are becoming more urgent.

Moral theologians, defense analysts, conflict scholars, and nuclear experts imagine a world free from nuclear weaponsAt a 2017 Vatican conference, Pope Francis condemned nuclear weapons.

Conceived as a comprehensive introduction to a field central to the work of the United Nations, Disarmament: A Basic Guide aims to provide a useful overview of the nuanced challenges of building a more peaceful world in the twenty-first century.

The volume 41 (Part I) compiles the disarmament resolutions and decisions of the Seventy-first session of the General Assembly, the voting patterns in the General Assembly and the First Committee report and dates of their adoption.

Conceived as a comprehensive introduction to a field central to the work of the United Nations, Disarmament: A Basic Guide aims to provide a useful overview of the nuanced challenges of building a more peaceful world in the twenty-first century.

With thorough analysis and balanced reporting, Ghost Guns: Hobbyists, Hackers, and the Homemade Weapons Revolution is an essential resource for readers seeking to understand the rise of homemade firearms and future options for managing them.

In this work, an expert on biological weapons offers a thoughtful examination of the political and technical issues that have affected the implementation of arms control agreements from the 1960s to the present.

Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons.

India has long been motivated to modernize its military, and it now has the resources.

Turkey, with a robust modern economy and growing energy needs, is pursuing a switch to nuclear power.

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For some observers, nuclear arms control is either a relic of the cold war, or a utopian dream about a denuclearized planet decades in the future.

Few issues in international affairs and energy security animate thinkers more than the classic topic of hegemony, and the case of the Persian Gulf presents particularly fertile ground for considering this concept.