Nuclear weapons

This book uses formal models to explore the conditions under which nuclear agreements are credible.

One of the key concerns of naval strategists and planners today is the nature of the Chinese geostrategic challenge.

In the mid-1970s, the Cold War had frozen into a nuclear stalemate in Europe and retreated from the headlines in Asia.

Roberts Jungks Buch von 1956 ist eine Warnung vor der Zerstörung der Erde - und heute ein Klassiker der politischen Literatur, der eine ganze Generation geprägt hat.

My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J.

March 1968: three miles below the stormy surface of the North Pacific, a Soviet submarine lay silent as a tomb-its crew dead, its payload of nuclear missiles, once directed toward strategic targets in Hawaii, inoperable.

Challenging nuclearism explores how a deliberate 'normalisation' of nuclear weapons has been constructed, why it has prevailed in international politics for over seventy years and why it is only now being questioned seriously.

The Control Agenda is a sweeping account of the history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), their rise in the Nixon and Ford administrations, their downfall under President Carter, and their powerful legacies in the Reagan years and beyond.

Tracing Diefenbaker's deliberations over nuclear policy, McMahon shows that Diefenbaker was politically cautious, not indecisive - he wanted to acquire nuclear weapons and understood from public opinion polls that most Canadians supported this position.

March 1968: three miles below the stormy surface of the North Pacific, a Soviet submarine lay silent as a tomb-its crew dead, its payload of nuclear missiles, once directed toward strategic targets in Hawaii, inoperable.

The last two decades have seen a slow but steady increase in nuclear armed states, and in the seemingly less constrained policy goals of some of the newer "e;rogue"e; states in the international system.

Since its inception in 1981, the Erice Seminars from which this book series originates have attracted the attention of world leaders in science, technology and culture.

An examination of the political and diplomatic role of American nuclear weapons in conflicts with a non-nuclear China in the Korean War and the Taiwan Strait crises of 1954-1955 and 1958, this study analyzes the American tendency to become involved in confrontations with far weaker powers over issues of very little strategic significance to the United States.

The Iraqi scientist who designed Baghdad's nuclear bomb tells how he did it in secret with the cynical help of U.

Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy?

A subarctic mine on the far eastern shores of Great Bear Lake provided Canadian uranium for the bombs detonated over Japan in August 1945.

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This series started in 1981 with the Erice Seminars when the danger of a nuclear East-West confrontation was menacing the world.

During the 1980s, millions of ordinary individuals around the world mobilized in support of nuclear disarmament.

Life and Times of the Atomic Bomb takes up the question of how the world found itself in the age of nuclear weapons - and how it has since tried to find a way out of it.

The little-known history of U.

Interest in nuclear energy has surged in recent years, yet there are risks that accompany the global diffusion of nuclear power-especially the possibility that the spread of nuclear energy will facilitate nuclear weapons proliferation.

Why adopt a poststructural lens for the reading of the military strategy of national missile defence (NMD)?

Samuel S.

Most observers who follow nuclear history agree on one major aspect regarding Israel's famous policy of nuclear ambiguity; mainly that it is an exception.

This book details the evolution of General George Marshall's relationship with the atomic bomb-including the Manhattan Project and the use of atomic weapons on Japan-as it emerged as the ultimate weapon of mass destruction.

Leading scholars analyse key dilemmas in the application of sanctions and inducements on states that violate international non-proliferation commitments.

A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legaciesOn August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

It was no accident that the Holocaust and the Atomic Bomb happened at the same time.

In November 1960, bolstered by anti-Communist ideologies, John F.

From the early 1950s until 1992, the U.

While German and Japanese scientists also labored unsuccessfully to create an atomic bomb, by the summer of 1945, the American-led team was ready to test its first weapon.

North Korea remains a puzzle to Americans.

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

Life and Times of the Atomic Bomb takes up the question of how the world found itself in the age of nuclear weapons - and how it has since tried to find a way out of it.

Despite recent attempts at 'negotiation', the attitudes of both Kim Jong-un's regime and the West seem unchanged.

This collection offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds.

How and why China has pursued information-age weapons to gain leverage against its adversariesHow can states use military force to achieve their political aims without triggering a catastrophic nuclear war?

In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe.

At once fascinating and horrific, this book details the conception, development and impact of the atomic bombs infamously dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

In the towering mountains of northern India, a chilling chapter was written in the history of international espionage.

Highlights the threats posed by nuclear weapons and shows a way to denuclearization through the application of international law.

Red November delivers the real life feel and fears of submariners who risked their lives to keep the peace.

The US decision to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 remains one of the most controversial events of the twentieth century.

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