Nuclear weapons

'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.

For decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the United States only needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and still be able to respond with a devastating counterattack.

For decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the United States only needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and still be able to respond with a devastating counterattack.

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.

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.

Nuclear weapons have not been used in anger since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

Nuclear weapons have not been used in anger since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.

Japan 1945.

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

A companion volume to his bestselling 'Armageddon', Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history.

It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to build an atomic bomb.

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.

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.

Hegemony or Survival is Noam Chomsky's essential polemic on American foreign policy.

'If I were a voter in Britain, I would vote for [Jeremy Corbyn]' - Noam Chomsky, 2017Global Discontents is an essential guide to geopolitics and how to fight back, from the world's leading public intellectualWhat kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren?

A powerful post-nuclear holocaust novel described by the author as, 'my cry against the monstrous weapons men have made'.

From the bestselling author of The Fate of the Earth, a provocative look at the urgent threat posed by America's new nuclear policiesWhen the cold war ended, many Americans believed the nuclear dilemma had ended with it.

In this important new collection of interviews with the acclaimed radio journalist David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky discuses U.

The Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat exploration of what would happen in the event of nuclear war, perfect for readers of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J.

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER****Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**From one kiss comes a chain reaction a masterpiece of memoir from the winner of the Baillie Gifford and the Booker prize Extraordinary Sarah Perry Masterpiece Colm T ib n Wholly original.

A startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature 2015 On 26 April 1986, at 1.

October 27, 1962, a day dubbed Black Saturday in the Kennedy White House.

Because We Say So is Noam Chomsky's essential counter punch to American hegemony.

A Times History Book of the Year 2022From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings 'the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis' Daily TelegraphThe 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union.

'Ground-breaking' - Daily Mail'In explaining the rise to power of Kim Yo Jong, Lee displays his deep knowledge and understanding of North Korea's extreme, ruthless and self-obsessed dynastic autocracy, the creators and rulers of a de-facto nuclear weapon state.

In this collection of essays from 1969-2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky exposes the real nature of state power.

The United States asserts the right to use military force against failed states around the globe.

Nuclear Showdown published by Asia expert, Gordon Chang, was of the first books to exploire the full extent of the North Korean nuclear threat, its origins, international implications, and solutions.

The little boy did not cry or speak.

Before the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case.

The military are a brave people.

In the nuclear age, arms are the ultimate commodity.

Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Nuclear Deterrence is an accessible and authoritative introduction to the deterrent tactics employed to prevent war, drawing on the unprecedented power of nuclear weapons.

An in-depth account of Great Britain’s atomic testing efforts in South Australia in the 1950s and ’60s, and its effects.

Think of this ebook as an eye opener that discusses the huge problems that man caused.

The full story of Britain's nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s has only recently begun to emerge.

The essential account of geopolitics right now, from one of our greatest living intellectuals - including a new afterword on President Donald Trump Noam Chomsky: philosopher, political writer, fearless activist.

About ReflectionsReflections is a memoir of the Vietnam War.

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.

Durante octubre de 1962 el mundo estuvo en vilo ante el casi inminente inicio de una nueva guerra donde las armas nucleares eran la mayor amenaza.

Winner of 1954 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.

A history of weapons of mass destruction from the First World War to the Gulf War - and beyond.

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An essential overview of the problems of our world today -- and how we should prepare for tomorrow -- from the world's leading public intellectualWe have two choices.

Join Gideon Crew in his second adventure in this high-octane new thriller series from the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling authors.