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  • Nuclear Designs

    Great Britain, France and China in the Global Governance of Nuclear Arms

    by Bruce Larkin ...
    Global politics has changed with unaccustomed swiftness since the end of the Cold War. Eastern Europe is free; the Soviet Union has broken up; China presses free market economic reform; and the United States and Russia have declared a joint commitment to end nuclear war. The force of these changes has created a new agenda for global politics and security policy. This does not mean that nuclear ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Designing Denuclearization

    An Interpretive Encyclopedia

    by Bruce Larkin ...
    This work canvasses nuclear weapon abolition, proposals placed on the table since 1945 and the obstacles and issues which a realistic program for abolition confronts today. It has an ambitious purpose, to show that nuclear abolition can and should be placed on the public agenda.a The author terms it interpretive in that it incorporates his commentaries, never hiding his reasons and judgments. It ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

    Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World?

    by Sverre Lodgaard ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.This book examines the current debate on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, notably the ... Read more

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  • Washington's New Cold War

    A Socialist Perspective

    by Vijay Prashad, John Bellamy Foster, John Ross, Deborah Veneziale ...
    As the American people delude themselves once more into thinking of the United States as a liberating force for peace in the world, Waging a New Cold War invites us, instead, to think for ourselves. Behind the scenes the plans to wage war have been laid—either by proxy, as in Ukraine, or directly, against the U.S.’s old twentieth-century foes. Waging a New Cold War: A Socialist Perspective makes a ... Read more

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  • The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy

    Why Strategic Superiority Matters

    by Matthew Kroenig ...
    Series series Bridging the Gap
    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. So long as the US, or any other nation, retains such an assured retaliation capability, no sane leader would intentionally launch a nuclear attack against it, and nuclear ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Weapons of Mass Destruction

    The Search for Global Security

    by Aiden Warren, Joseph M. Siracusa ...
    Series series Weapons of Mass Destruction and Emerging Technologies
    Whether possessed by a state or non-state actor, the specter of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), and more specifically, nuclear weapons and their associated material, present a significant threat to global security. Notwithstanding the fact that there are fewer nuclear weapons today than the massive stockpiles that existed during the height of the Cold War, the complexities relating to nuclear ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Sleepwalking to Armageddon

    The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation

    Edited by Helen Caldicott ...
    A frightening but necessary assessment of the threat posed by nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century, edited by the world's leading antinuclear activistWith the world's attention focused on climate change and terrorism, we are in danger of taking our eyes off the nuclear threat. But rising tensions between Russia and NATO, proxy wars erupting in Syria and Ukraine, a nuclear-armed Pakistan, ... Read more

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  • Rethinking the Bomb

    Europe and Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century

    by Marc-Michael Blum ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    The question of what Europe’s nuclear strategy should be is rarely discussed. While Europe continues to play a crucial role on issues relating to non-proliferation, particularly in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme, nuclear strategy is generally considered to be within remit of Russia, the United States and NATO. The paper identifies possible scenarios where the deployment of ... Read more

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  • No Use

    Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security

    by Thomas M. Nichols ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    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. Yet even now, over two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States maintains a huge nuclear arsenal on high alert and ready for war. The Americans, like the Russians, ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Armageddon Postponed

    A Different View of Nuclear Weapons

    by Theodore Caplow ...
    In the closing days of World War II, scientists working for the U.S. government invented nuclear explosives by splitting the atoms of heavy metals. Germany had already surrendered, but the United States and its allies remained at war with Japan. In the summer of 1945, the Japanese city of Hiroshima was flattened by a single nuclear bomb. A second bombing occurred just a few days later, decimating ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Handbook of Nuclear Proliferation

    Edited by Harsh V Pant ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The chapters of this proposed volume are intended to shed light on the diverse themes surrounding this very important issue area in international security. Each of the six major sections addresses an aspect of nuclear proliferation that will be critical in determining the future trajectory of global politics in the years to come.The first section examines the major thematic issues underlying the ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Dangers of Nuclear War

    A Pugwash Symposium

    Edited by Franklyn Griffiths, John C. Polanyi ...
    Series series Heritage
    This collection of studies is one of the most lucid and sober analyses of the dangers of nuclear war, which mankind is facing. Written by natural and social scientists, the book should be read both by statesmen and by the general public. Looking towards the end of the century it makes clear the growing dangers. Avoiding complacency on the other hand, and prophecies of doom on the other, it ... Read more

    $22.29 USD