Nuclear weapons

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

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

Against the Tide is a leadership book that illustrates how Adm.

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.

An original and compelling new analysis of Hiroshima''s place within the global development of Holocaust and World War II memory.

"e;An instant classic, if notthe finest book to date on Ronald Reagan.

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.

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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.

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

Shortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non-FictionFrom the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, the first insider expos of the awful dangers of America's hidden, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that is chillingly still extant At the same time former presidential advisor Daniel Ellsberg famously took the top-secret Pentagon Papers, he also took with him a chilling cache of top-secret documents related to America's nuclear program in the 1960s.

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

For more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama has gradually reduced the size of America's nuclear forces.

How did Andrei Sakharov, a theoretical physicist and the acknowledged father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, become a human rights activist and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

From the former UN head weapons inspector in Iraq, a plea for a renewed global disarmament movement.

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.

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

A nuclear priesthood has arisen in Russia.

Israel's foreign policy is perceived to be essentially a defensive one by the international community.

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Advocating nuclear war, attempting communication with dolphins and taking an interest in the paranormal and UFOs, there is perhaps no greater (or stranger) cautionary tale for the Left than that of Posadism.

The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history.

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.

Bruce Blair examines operational safety hazards for nuclear forces deployed on combat alert in Russia, the United States, and elsewhere.

Bruce Blair examines operational safety hazards for nuclear forces deployed on combat alert in Russia, the United States, and elsewhere.

On August 9th, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

Iran is aggressively seeking nuclear technology that could be used for making weaponsand its quest has set off alarms throughout the world.

Abans de les criptomonedes o les reunions per Zoom, un avenç tecnològic ja havia abolit les distàncies entre territoris: des de la bomba atòmica d'Hiroshima un sol botó pot posar en perill tots els éssers vius de la Terra.

'A powerful, beautiful book.

(This ebook contains a limited number of illustrations.

«Mit der technischen Nutzbarmachung der Kernspaltung wurde der Sprung in eine ganz neue Dimension der Gewalt gewagt .

Acclaim for the Bomb in My Garden "e;This one book will tell you more about Iraq's quest for weapons of mass destruction than all U.

In diesem 1983 erstmals erschienenen Buch legt Oskar Lafontaine dar, daß die Europäer in Ost und West sich aus der atomaren Rivalität der beiden Weltmächte heraushalten müssen, wenn sie sich größeren politischen Handlungsspielraum und vor allem mehr Sicherheit verschaffen wollen.

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.

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Between 1946 and 1958, the U.

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.

Between 1946 and 1958, the U.

In September 1942, Colonel Leslie R.

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The United States and the Soviet Union could drastically reduce their nuclear arsenals below the levels prescribed by the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).

From famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, comes Command and Control a ground-breaking account of the management of nuclear weaponsA groundbreaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: how do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them?

In 1932, the so-called annus mirabilis of modern physics, a group of scientists gathered in Copenhagen for a week-long conference on the extraordinary new work that was taking place in laboratories across the world; work that would ultimately lead to the development of nuclear weapons and the ensuing international power struggles.

It was the weapon to end all weapons: the doomsday device.

'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times"e;Trinity"e; was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945.

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

'War is the most important thing in the world', writes Martin van Creveld, one of the world's best-known experts on military history and strategy.