Nuclear Warfare category: 350 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2016
This important report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. The use of financial interdiction to disrupt the development of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their components is an option in the so-called counterproliferation toolkit. The effectiveness...
Nuclear Power and Politics of South Asia
New Disclosures
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In this age of globalisation the book, Nuclear Power and Politics of South Asia- New Disclosures, unfolds different stages of the growth of nuclear energy and its proliferation in the region South Asia with added emphasis on nuclear weapon development in India and Pakistan. In previous decades the...
The Doomsday Machine
Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Finalist for The California Book Award in Nonfiction
The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year List
Foreign Affairs Best Books of the Year
In These Times “Best Books of the Year"
Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December...
The Nuclear Jihadist
The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World's Most Dangerous Secrets...And How We Could Have Stopped Him
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2007
The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Should such an assault occur, there is a strong likelihood that the trail of devastation will lead back to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani father of the...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This paper proposes a response to the dangerous proliferation of nuclear weapons in India and Pakistan. This paper highlights the threat in "The Nuclear Catastrophe," a gripping projection of the worst-case...
The Brink
President Reagan and the Nuclear War Scare of 1983
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018
“An informative and often enthralling book…in the appealing style of Tom Clancy” (Kirkus Reviews) about the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union...
by Gregg Herken
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Since the first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945, a close community of civilian experts, including scientists, academics, and think-tank intellectuals, has advised the American government on the prospects of nuclear war. Based on interviews with these experts, as well as hundreds of pages of recently...
by Noam Chomksy, Laray Polk
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
“There are two problems for our species’ survival—nuclear war and environmental catastrophe, ” says Noam Chomsky in this new book on the two existential threats of our time and their points of intersection since World War II.
While a nuclear strike would require action, environmental...
by Joseph M. Siracusa
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. As Bill Clinton's first secretary of defence, Les Aspin, aptly put it: 'The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is no more. But the post-Cold War world is decidedly...
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A Global History of the Nuclear Arms Race: Weapons, Strategy, and Politics [2 volumes]
Weapons, Strategy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Written by two preeminent authors in the field, this book provides an accessible global narrative of the nuclear arms race since 1945 that focuses on the roles of key scientists, military chiefs, and political leaders.
• Makes the case that nuclear weaponry gradually assumed political stature...
Better Safe Than Sorry
The Ironies of Living with the Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2009
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. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev went eyeball to eyeball over missiles in Cuba! We still live in an echo chamber of fear, after...
Survive the Bomb: The Radioactive Citizen's Guide to Nuclear Survival
The Radioactive Citizen's Guide to Nuclear Survival
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The launch of Russia's Sputnik satellite in 1957 began an era where American citizens were haunted by fears of annihilation. Baby Boomers will remember Bert the Turtle, who instructed them how to "duck and cover." Survive the Bomb documents other U.S. government efforts to calm the collective...
A Nuclear Family Vacation
Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
In A Nuclear Family Vacation, husband-and-wife journalists Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger hit the road to explore the secretive world of nuclear weaponry. Weaving together first-class travel writing and crack investigative journalism, the pair pursues both adventures and answers: Why are nuclear...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Four official federal government reports provide the full details of the tragic SL-1 prototype nuclear power plant accident of January 3, 1961, the first and only immediately fatal American reactor accident. Three servicemen were killed in the incident at Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
Major...