Nuclear weapons

The launch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958 signalled the first modern protest movement in Britain.

Samuel S.

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.

The authors have created a competent, well-written, and very well-illustrated overview history of an important but lesser-known battle of World War II in the Pacific.

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

In numerous crises after World War II Berlin, Korea, the Taiwan Straits, and the Middle East the United States resorted to vague threats to use nuclear weapons in order to deter Soviet or Chinese military action.

The 1968 Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty has proven the most complicated and controversial of all arms control treaties, both in principle and in practice.

Through a reliance on nuclear weapons, President Eisenhower hoped to provide a defense strategy that would allow the U.

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

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

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.

In this engaging scientific memoir, Kenneth Ford recounts the time when, in his mid-twenties, he was a member of the team that designed and built the first hydrogen bomb.

During the 1980s, popular fear of World War III spurred moviemakers to produce dozens of nuclear threat films.

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

Controversy over the Iranian nuclear policy has been mounting in both legal and political circles since the early 2000s.

Nuclear Insecurity is an insider's account of official American efforts to prevent the theft or diversion of nuclear and radiological weapons that could be used by rogue nations or terrorist groups.

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

Addressing an increasingly complex array of nuclear weapons challenges in the future will require talented young people with the necessary technical and policy expertise to contribute to sound decisionmaking on nuclear issues over time.

During the 18-year program of atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons (1945-1962), some of the 225,000 participants were exposed to radiation.

The book reflects the author's experience across more than forty years in assessing and forming policy about nuclear weapons, mostly at senior levels close to the centre both of British governmental decision-making and of NATO's development of plans and deployments, with much interaction also with comparable levels of United States activity in the Pentagon and the State department.

This Atom Bomb in Me traces what it felt like to grow up suffused with American nuclear culture in and around the atomic city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

From the early 1950s until 1992, the U.

This book explains the origin and historical development of North Korean nuclear weapon dated from the aftermath of World War II.

The appearance of the crossbow on the European battle field in A.

Longing for the Bomb traces the unusual story of the first atomic city and the emergence of American nuclear culture.

The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn't MatterAnd What Does presents a provocative challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding nuclear weapons and global security.

How two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to createIn 1945, the United States dropped the bomb, and physicists were forced to contemplate disquieting questions about their roles and responsibilities.

Following 9/11, Americans were swept up in a near hysteria-level fear of terrorists, especially of Islamic extremists working domestically.

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

The first detailed Iranian account of the diplomatic struggle between Iran and the international community, The Iranian Nuclear Crisis: A Memoir opens in 2002, as news of Iran's clandestine uranium enrichment and plutonium production facilities emerge.

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

The role that nuclear weapons play in international security has changed since the end of the Cold War, but the need to maintain and replenish the human infrastructure for supporting nuclear capabilities and dealing with the multitude of nuclear challenges remains essential.

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.

Waging Peace offers the first fully comprehensive study of Eisenhower's "e;New Look"e; program of national security, which provided the groundwork for the next three decades of America's Cold War strategy.

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

While the world’s attention is focused on the nuclearization of North Korea and Iran and the nuclear brinkmanship between India and Pakistan, China is believed to have doubled the size of its nuclear arsenal, making it “the forgotten nuclear power,” as described in Foreign Affairs.

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After a brief interlude following the Cold War, nuclear weapons have regained their prominent place in world affairs.

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?

Nuclear power has for the most part dominated Western media and academic analyses concerning Iranian foreign policy in recent years.

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

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

Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War explores a still neglected aspect of Winston Churchill's career his relationship with and thinking on nuclear weapons.

Nuclear Reactions explores the nuclear consensus that emerged in postWorld War II America, characterized by widespread support for a diplomatic and military strategy based on nuclear weapons and a vision of economic growth that welcomed nuclear energy both for the generation of electricity and for other peaceful and industrial uses.

Cryptic Concrete explores bunkered sites in Cold War Germany in order to understand the inner workings of the Cold War state.

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.

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