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  • To End the Arms Race

    Seeking a Safer Future

    by David Rittenhouse Inglis ...
    Since participating in the original development of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos over forty years ago, David Inglis has written more than sixty articles on various aspects of the subject. These articles not only provide a useful background for specific issues of the arms race, but also point out missed opportunities for making our future safer and the major obstacles in reaching any agreements in ... Read more

    $23.39 USD

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  • SuperFuel

    Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future

    by Richard Martin ...
    Series series MacSci
    A riveting look at how an alternative source of energy is revoluntionising nuclear power, promising a safe and clean future for millions, and why thorium was sidelined at the height of the Cold WarIn this groundbreaking account of an energy revolution in the making, award-winning science writer Richard Martin introduces us to thorium, a radioactive element and alternative nuclear fuel that is far ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bomb

    A New History

    by Steven M. Younger ...
    A former Los Alamos weapons designer shares "an indispensable guide to the science and strategy of nuclear weapons" ( Booklist).From his years at Los Alamos and the Nevada Test Site to his meetings with nuclear arms experts in Moscow, former weapons designer Stephen M. Younger has witnessed firsthand the making of nuclear policy. With a deep understanding of both the technology and the politics ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction

    by Joseph M. Siracusa ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    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 not post-nuclear'. For all the effort to reduce nuclear stockpiles to zero, it seems that the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Nuclear Security

    The Problems and the Road Ahead

    by George P. Shultz, Sidney D. Drell, Henry A. Kissinger, Sam Nunn ...
    Concern about the threat posed by nuclear weapons has preoccupied the United States and presidents of the United States since the beginning of the nuclear era. Nuclear Security draws from papers presented at the 2013 meeting of the American Nuclear Society examining worldwide efforts to control nuclear weapons and ensure the safety of the nuclear enterprise of weapons and reactors against ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nuclear Weapons

    by Mark Wolverton ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    A primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured destruction, the SALT treaties, and the Bomb in pop culture.Although the world’s attention has shifted to drone-controlled bombing and cyberwarfare, the threat of nuclear war still exists. There are now fourteen thousand nuclear weapons in the hands of the nine declared nuclear powers. Even though ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Competing with the Soviets

    Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America

    by Audra J. Wolfe ...
    Series series Hopkins Introductions to the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
    A synthetic account of how science became a central weapon in the ideological Cold War.Honorable Mention for the Forum for the History of Science in America Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in AmericaFor most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • On Thermonuclear War

    by Herman Kahn, Evan Jones ...
    On Thermonuclear War was controversial when originally published and remains so today. It is iconoclastic, crosses disciplinary boundaries, and finally it is calm and compellingly reasonable. The book was widely read on both sides of the Iron Curtain and the result was serious revision in both Western and Soviet strategy and doctrine. As a result, both sides were better able to avoid disaster ... Read more

    $69.99 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

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Escalation

    Metaphors and Scenarios

    by Herman Kahn ...
    In this widely discussed and influential book, Herman Kahn probes the dynamics of escalation and demonstrates how the intensification of conflict can be depicted by means of a definite escalation ladder, ascent of which brings opponents closer to all-out war. At each rung of the ladder, before the climb proceeds, decisions must be made based on numerous choices. Some are clear and obvious, others ... Read more

    $69.99 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

  • Canada and the Nuclear Arms Race

    by Ernie Regehr ...
    First published in 1983, this book reports from the middle of the nuclear arms race, when the world's two superpowers, the US and the USSR, were adding increasingly sophisticated weapons to their arsenals, reaching a point where they could effectively wipe each other out many times over. Some of Canada's most distinguished critics of the nuclear arms race examine this drift to annihilation, show ... Read more

    $16.99 USD