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Iranian Regime's Nuclear Duplicity

An Analysis of Tehran's Trickery in Talks with the P 5+1

by NCRI- U.S. Office
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016

International negotiators have been engaged in talks with the Iranian regime on its nuclear program since 2002. The current approach, led by the United States as part of the so-called P5+1, is now in its final stages. While opinions may vary as to the contents and wisdom of the deal that may be...

Will the Bomber Always Get Through? The Air Force and its Reliance on Technology: Norden Bombsight Development, Nuclear Weapons, Vietnam, Success of Stealth, The Future

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Will the Bomber Always Get Through? The Air Force and its Reliance on Technology: Norden Bombsight Development, Nuclear Weapons, Vietnam, Success of Stealth, The Future

by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013

This study analyses the inherent dangers of relying too heavily, or solely, on one panacea technology to prosecute war strategy at the expense of other, essential capabilities. The historically sound pillars of military success (the sword, the shield, and the support) have given victory to those who...

Deterring North Korea from Using WMD in Future Conflicts and Crises: Nuclear, Chemical, Biological Weapons, Deterrence by Punishment, Understanding North Korean Provocations, Escalatory Brinksmanship

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Deterring North Korea from Using WMD in Future Conflicts and Crises: Nuclear, Chemical, Biological Weapons, Deterrence by Punishment, Understanding North Korean Provocations, Escalatory Brinksmanship

by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. For nearly 60 years, North Korea has determinedly pursued the development of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), usually defined as chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) weapons....

Are We Prepared? Four WMD Crises That Could Transform U.S. Security: Failed WMD-armed State, Collapse of Nonproliferation Regime, Biological Terror Campaign, Nuclear Detonation in American City

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Are We Prepared? Four WMD Crises That Could Transform U.S. Security: Failed WMD-armed State, Collapse of Nonproliferation Regime, Biological Terror Campaign, Nuclear Detonation in American City

by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this report presents four weapons of mass destruction (WMD)-related scenarios that could plausibly occur and radically alter American domestic and national security agendas. Moreover, these scenarios, for which the United...

Saudi Arabia's Strategic Rocket Force: The Silent Service - Surface to Surface Missiles, Riyadh's Strategic Calculations, Nuclear Weapons, Missiles from China and Pakistan, Counterproliferation

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Saudi Arabia's Strategic Rocket Force: The Silent Service - Surface to Surface Missiles, Riyadh's Strategic Calculations, Nuclear Weapons, Missiles from China and Pakistan, Counterproliferation

by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2015

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Marine Corps monograph deals with Saudi Arabia's Strategic Rocket Force—the "silent force" because it receives far less publicity than the country's other armed services. The study addressed the decision...

Nunn: Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program: Origins of Nuclear Weapons Control Initiative, Soviet Union, Beyond Nunn - Lugar: Curbing Next Wave of Weapons Proliferation Threats From Russia

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Nunn: Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program: Origins of Nuclear Weapons Control Initiative, Soviet Union, Beyond Nunn - Lugar: Curbing Next Wave of Weapons Proliferation Threats From Russia

by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this compilation reproduces two fascinating works about the history and future of the nuclear threat reduction program initiated by Senators Sam Nunn (D-GA) and Richard Lugar (R-IN). The first document, The Origins of Nunn-Lugar...

Atomic Shield: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) - Volume II, 1947-1952 - Terrible Responsibility, Call to Arms, Nuclear Arsenal, Quest for the Super (Hydrogen Bomb)

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Atomic Shield: A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) - Volume II, 1947-1952 - Terrible Responsibility, Call to Arms, Nuclear Arsenal, Quest for the Super (Hydrogen Bomb)

by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013

This is the second volume of the highly regarded official history of the birth of the atomic age and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) dealing with the years from 1947 through 1952. Atomic Shield, the second volume in a historical series, begins in January, 1947, when the Commission assumed responsibility...

When Proliferation Causes Peace

The Psychology of Nuclear Crises

by Michael D. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

Does state acquisition of nuclear weapons lead to stability and peace or instability and crises? This is one of the great debates in international relations scholarship. Michael D. Cohen argues that nuclear weapons acquisition often does dangerously embolden the acquiring state to undertake coercion...

The Navy of the Nuclear Age, 1947-2007

by Paul Silverstone
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011

The Navy of the Nuclear Age, 1947-2007, the fifth volume in the monumental U.S. Navy Warship series, presents an all-inclusive compendium of the ships that served in the U.S. Navy from the Cold War up through the present day. Featuring radical new developments in warships such as nuclear-powered submarines...

Reagan's Secret War

The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster

by Martin Anderson, Annelise Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009

On February 6, 1981, at his first National Security Council meeting, Ronald Reagan told his advisers: “I will make the decisions.” As Reagan’s Secret War reveals, these words provide the touchstone for understanding the extraordinary accomplishments of the Reagan administration, including the...

Genius in the Shadows

A Biography of Leo Szilard, the Man Behind the Bomb

by William Lanouette, Bela Silard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

“Leaves no doubt that this bizarre Hungarian was one of the great minds of our time, or any time . . . A wonderful book about this endlessly fascinating man” (The New York Times Book Review). When we think about the creation of the atom bomb, we may think of Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi,...

The Taking of K-129

How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History

by Josh Dean
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

**An incredible true tale of espionage and engineering set at the height of the Cold War—a mix between The Hunt for Red October and Argo—about how the CIA, the U.S. Navy, and America’s most eccentric mogul spent six years and nearly a billion dollars to steal the nuclear-armed Soviet submarine...

Red Star Rogue

The Untold Story of a Soviet Submarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S.

by Kenneth Sewell, Clint Richmond
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005

One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last. Early in 1968 a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Compelling evidence, assembled here for the first time, strongly suggests...

Bucket of Sunshine

Life on a Cold War Canberra Squadron

by Mike Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

A Bucket of Sunshine, a term used for the use of a nuclear bomb, is a firsthand insight into life in the mid-1960s on a Royal Air Force Canberra nuclear-armed squadron in West Germany on the frontline in the Cold War. Mike Brooke describes not only the technical aspect of the aircraft and its nuclear...