Nuclear weapons

Describes how Soviet Russia's leading spymasters in Moscow Center obtained information from British and American physicists to make an atomic bomb.

This edited collection considers the future of nuclear weapons in world politics in terms of security issues that are important for U.

Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1975, this is the classic history of the development of the American atomic bomb, the decision to use it against Japan, and the origins of U.

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

This book is a compilation of government reports on weapons of mass destruction.

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

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.

Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1975, this is the classic history of the development of the American atomic bomb, the decision to use it against Japan, and the origins of U.

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

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

This is the first book-length study of why states sometimes ignore, oppose, or undermine elements of the nuclear nonproliferation regime-even as they formally support it.

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.

There have been five central crises in America's post World War II encounter with the Middle East, and the Obama administration now faces a sixth.

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

In the late 1940s, the U.

'a master class in eyewitness storytelling .

DOD spends billions of dollars annually to sustain its weapon systems to support current and future operations.

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

SOMEONE ELSE'S EMPIRE dispels the myth of a 'Global Britain' that punches above its weight in the world.

Using newly released documents, the author presents an integrated look at American nuclear policy and diplomacy in crises from the Berlin blockade to Vietnam.

Describes how Soviet Russia's leading spymasters in Moscow Center obtained information from British and American physicists to make an atomic bomb.

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

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.

Paris Book Festival, 1st Place, NonfictionNew York Book Festival, 1st Place, General NonfictionLos Angeles Book Festival, 1st Place, Biography / Autobiography / MemoirHollywood Book Festival, 1st Place, Wild Card categoryAmerican Book Fest Best Book Awards, Finalist, US HistoryScreenCraft Cinematic Book Writing Competition, Quarter FinalistNautilus Book Awards, Silver Award, Journalism and Investigative ReportingNew England Book Festival, 1st Place, NonfictionSan Francisco Book Festival, 1st Place, HistoryFor more than four decades beginning in 1944, the Hanford nuclear weapons facility in southeastern Washington State secretly blanketed much of the Pacific Northwest with low-dose ionizing radiation, the byproduct of plutonium production.

The book examines Bernard Brodie's strategic and philosophical response to the nuclear age, embedding his work within the classical theories of Carl von Clausewitz.

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.

Leading experts provide a comprehensive examination of global efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation by blocking the illicit supply of key technologies.

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 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.

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.

Almost from the moment in 1940 that Otto Frisch and Rudofl Peierls suggested, from their small office in the University of Birmingham, that an atomic weapon could be miniaturized and delivered to its target by aircraft, the concept of atomic espionage can be said to have existed.

The future of nuclear weapons and nuclear strategy in the 21st century is not entirely predictable from the Cold War past.

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.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WA PREMIER'S BOOK AWARDS - BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARGARET MEDCALF AWARD 2024'I remember seeing a flash, I turned around and heard a roar like a train approaching in a tunnel.

Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history.

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

Arguing that previous critiques of rational choice and deterrence theory are not convincing, Frank Harvey constructs a new set of empirical tests of rational deterrence theory to illuminate patterns of interaction between rival nuclear powers.

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

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

The End of Victory recounts the costs of failure in nuclear war through the work of the most secret deliberative body of the National Security Council, the Net Evaluation Subcommittee (NESC).

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

Eine Bilanz des Schreckens.

North Korea's Nuclear Cinema examines why and how North Korea has transitioned to an image-based nuclear power in the changing context of a post-Cold War world.

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.

This revised and updated edition identifies the cultural factors and specific administrative agendas that have shaped the way we view ballistic missile technology.

Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history.

This book provides a rounded biography of Franz (later Sir Francis) Simon, his early life in Germany, his move to Oxford in 1933, and his experimental contributions to low temperature physics approximating absolute zero.

An essential reference for journalists, activists, and students, this book presents scientifically accurate and accessible overviews of 24 of the most important issues in the nuclear realm, including: health effects, nuclear safety and engineering, TMI and Chernobyl, nuclear medicine, food irradiation, transport of nuclear materials, spent fuel, nuclear weapons, global warming.