Nuclear weapons

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

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

A powerful new perspective on nuclear proliferation that counters the widespread fears of a coming cascade of new nuclear powers.

A powerful new perspective on nuclear proliferation that counters the widespread fears of a coming cascade of new nuclear powers.

Addresses the reasons the atomic bombs were used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the role they played in Japan''s surrender.

Addresses the reasons the atomic bombs were used against Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the role they played in Japan''s surrender.

The little-known history of U.

The little-known history of U.

A theoretical analysis and historical investigation of the Cold War nuclear arms race that challenges the nuclear revolution.

A theoretical analysis and historical investigation of the Cold War nuclear arms race that challenges the nuclear revolution.

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

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

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

The book brings together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe to address political and cultural responses to the arms race of the 1980s.

An examination of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons within the contemporary nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament security architecture.

An examination of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons within the contemporary nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament security architecture.

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

A narrative history of the nuclear tests conducted by the United States in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958.

A narrative history of the nuclear tests conducted by the United States in the Marshall Islands from 1946 to 1958.

Analyses the expansion of the nuclear arms control regime, evaluating Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty negotiations and preparations for on-site inspections.

Analyses the expansion of the nuclear arms control regime, evaluating Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty negotiations and preparations for on-site inspections.

Springing from 50 years'' experience in forensic seismology research, this book charts the development of seismic data analysis.

Springing from 50 years'' experience in forensic seismology research, this book charts the development of seismic data analysis.

This book explains how and why the nuclear nonproliferation regime has been successful, even without the characteristics usually seen in effective institutions.

This book explains how and why the nuclear nonproliferation regime has been successful, even without the characteristics usually seen in effective institutions.

Exploration of the top four mega-dangers facing humankind and plots a hopeful path to dealing with them through global governance.

Exploration of the top four mega-dangers facing humankind and plots a hopeful path to dealing with them through global governance.

Nuclear-armed adversaries India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their creation as sovereign states in 1947.

Saudi Arabia, with its US alliance and abundance of oil dollars, has a very different economic story to that of Iran, which despite enormous natural gas reserves, has been hit hard by economic, trade, scientific and military sanctions since its 1979 revolution.

The Iranian nuclear crisis has dominated world politics since the beginning of the century, with the country now facing increasing diplomatic isolation, talk of military strikes against its nuclear facilities and a disastrous Middle East war.

Since the Revolution of 1978/79, which eventually brought to power Ayatollah Khomeini and his circle of conservative, though politically active, clerics, the relationship between Iran and the USA has represented one of the world's most complex and hostile international entanglements.

In the wake of the 1979 Iranian revolution, relations between states in the Middle East were reconfigured and reassessed overnight.

From Tunisia to Egypt and from Israel to Iran, the debates surrounding the concept of democracy in the Middle East are never straightforward.

The history of Pakistan's nuclear program is the history of Pakistan.

Exploring how the United States manages its still-powerful nuclear arsenalArms control agreements and the end of the Cold War have made the prospect of nuclear war a distant fear for the general public.

Since 1945, the United States has manufactured and deployed more than 70,000 nuclear weapons to deter and if necessary fight a nuclear war.

"e;An excellent contribution to the debate on the future role of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence in American foreign policy.

"e;Perry has long been one of the more strenuous advocates for confronting the dangers of the nuclear age, and his engaging memoir explains why.

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.

The history of Pakistan's nuclear program is the history of Pakistan.

These essays by nuclear policy experts provide "e;a speculative but serious and well-informed journey through a variety of scenarios and contingencies"e; (Foreign Affairs).

Nuclear-armed adversaries India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their creation as sovereign states in 1947.

Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.

In 2008, the iconic doomsday clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientistswas set at five minutes to midnight-two minutes closer to Armageddon than in 1962, when John F.

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

Since 1945, the United States has manufactured and deployed more than 70,000 nuclear weapons to deter and if necessary fight a nuclear war.

In the closing days of World War II, scientists working for the U.

'No previous generation of statesmen has had to conduct policy in so unknown an environment at the border line of Armageddon'-Henry Kissinger Nuclear weapons pose a unique challenge to American foreign policy and the American president in particular.

After Hiroshima, published in 2010, forges links between the role of race and US foreign policy in Asia.