Nuclear Warfare category: 350 books
by Eric G. Swedin
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
In 1961 at the Bay of Pigs, CIA-trained and -organized Cuban exiles aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro were soundly defeated. Most were taken prisoner by Cuban armed forces. Fearing another U.S. invasion of its new ally, the Soviet Union sneaked into Cuba strategic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads...
Red Cloud at Dawn
Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
On August 29, 1949, the first Soviet test bomb, dubbed First Lightning, exploded in the deserts of Kazakhstan. The startling event was not simply a technical experiment that confirmed the ability of the Soviet Union to build nuclear bombs during a period when the United States held a steadfast monopoly;...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
This is a comprehensive history of an important chapter in the history of the Cold War, American atmospheric atomic tests at the Nevada Test Site and elsewhere, providing unique insight into the successes, failures, and controversies of the program. Contents: Introduction: Operation Big Shot, April...
Raid on the Sun
Inside Israel's Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam the Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2004
The first authorized inside account of one of the most daring—and successful—military operations in recent history
From the earliest days of his dictatorship, Saddam Hussein had vowed to destroy Israel. So when France sold Iraq a top-of-the-line nuclear reactor in 1975, the Israelis were...
Nuclear Deterrence in the 21st Century
Lessons from the Cold War for a New Era of Strategic Piracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Deterrence remains a primary doctrine for dealing with the threat of nuclear weapons in the 21st century. The author reviews the history of nuclear deterrence and calls for a renewed intellectual effort to address the relevance of concepts such as first strike, escalation, extended deterrence, and other...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. National Defense University (NDU), the National Intelligence Council (NIC), and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) held a symposium in November 2015 that brought leading experts together...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
This manual integrates major accident and natural disaster procedures and standards for planning, logistical requirements, emergency response actions, emergency response organizational guidelines, exercises and evaluations, personnel training, detection, identification, warning and notification actions....
Day of Two Suns
U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1998
Between 1946 and 1958, the U.S. conducted some 66 nuclear bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. In 1959, this scattering of coral atolls was again chosen as the testing site for a new generation of weapons—long-range missiles fired in the U.S. Then in 1984 a missile fired from California was intercepted...
Awaiting Armageddon
How Americans Faced the Cuban Missile Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
For thirteen days in October 1962, America stood at the brink of nuclear war. Nikita Khrushchev's decision to place nuclear missiles in Cuba and John F. Kennedy's defiant response introduced the possibility of unprecedented cataclysm. The immediate threat of destruction entered America's classrooms...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
In today's world, it is difficult to fully grasp and appreciate the cultural and geopolitical climate that existed after the Allied victory in World War II. The rise of the Soviet Union, the lack of insight into actual military capabilities held by the Soviets, and the threat of nuclear annihilation...
Nuclear Tsunami
The Japanese Government and America's Role in the Fukushima Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Banking on safety myths, Japan promoted an aggressive policy of locating and building nuclear power plants in depopulated areas suffering from a significant decline of local industries and economies following America's nuclear campaign in World War II. This book shows how the bankruptcy of the central...
Iran's Nuclear Future
Critical U.S. Policy Choices
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
As Iran's nuclear program evolves, U.S. decisionmakers will confront a series of critical policy choices involving complex considerations and policy trade-offs. These policy choices could involve dissuading Iran from developing nuclear weapons; deterring Iran from using its nuclear weapons, if it...
by Scott S. F. Meaker
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
On the Brink of Nuclear War: Cuban Missile Crisis - Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States.
Note: This is a short history.
During the 1950s, the big fear was nuclear war. From the Soviet Union’s perspective, having a communist stronghold so close to the American border was a dream...
How We Stopped Loving the Bomb
An insider's account of the world on the brink of banning nuclear arms
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Nobody loves nuclear weapons--except their powerfully placed defenders in government, their supporters in the military, and terrorists. When President Barack Obama brought his vision of a nuclear weapons-free world to the White House, he re-energized the peace movement. Today the historical momentum...