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  • Seeking the Bomb

    Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation

    by Vipin Narang ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weaponsMuch of the work on nuclear proliferation has focused on why states pursue nuclear weapons. The question of how states pursue nuclear weapons has received little attention. Seeking the Bomb is the first book to analyze this topic by examining which strategies of nuclear proliferation are ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era

    Regional Powers and International Conflict

    by Vipin Narang ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    The world is in a second nuclear age in which regional powers play an increasingly prominent role. These states have small nuclear arsenals, often face multiple active conflicts, and sometimes have weak institutions. How do these nuclear states—and potential future ones—manage their nuclear forces and influence international conflict? Examining the reasoning and deterrence consequences of regional ... Read more

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  • The China-India Rivalry in the Globalization Era

    Series series South Asia in World Affairs series
    As the aspirations of the two rising Asian powers collide, the China-India rivalry is likely to shape twenty-first-century international politics in the region and far beyond.This volume by T.V. Paul and an international group of leading scholars examines whether the rivalry between the two countries that began in the 1950s will intensify or dissipate in the twenty-first century. The China-India ... Read more

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  • The Fragile Balance of Terror

    Deterrence in the New Nuclear Age

    Edited by Vipin Narang, Scott D. Sagan ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    In The Fragile Balance of Terror**, the foremost experts on nuclear policy and strategy offer insight into an era rife with more nuclear powers.** Some of these new powers suffer domestic instability, others are led by pathological personalist dictators, and many are situated in highly unstable regions of the world—a volatile mix of variables.The increasing fragility of deterrence in the twenty ... Read more

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    The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism

    "[A] seasoned national security professional and gifted writer" offers an in-depth analysis of what might happen after a nuclear attack on US soil (Matthew Kroenig, author of Exporting the Bomb).In the parlance of disaster preparedness, "right of boom" refers to the terrifying moments after a crisis hits. In Right of Boom, national security specialist Benjamin Schwartz examines what could happen ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Nuclear Terrorism

    Countering the Threat

    Edited by Brecht Volders, Tom Sauer ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This volume aims to improve understanding of nuclear security and the prevention of nuclear terrorism.Nuclear terrorism is perceived as one of the most immediate and extreme threats to global security today. While the international community has made important progress in securing fissile material, there are still important steps to be made with nearly 2,000 metric tons of weapons-usable nuclear ... Read more

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  • Global Security in the Twenty-First Century

    The Quest for Power and the Search for Peace

    by Sean Kay ...
    This thoroughly updated edition of Global Security in the Twenty-First Century offers a balanced introduction to contemporary security dilemmas throughout the world. Sean Kay assesses the impact of the global economic crisis on international security and considers how the range of thinking about power and peace has evolved in relation to major flashpoints including in the Middle East, Asia, and ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Organizational Cultures and the Management of Nuclear Technology

    Political and Military Sociology

    Edited by Karthika Sasikumar ...
    Series series Political and Military Sociology Series
    Nuclear technology has been an organizing premise of the international system since 1945. Eight countries have officially acknowledged the possession of nuclear weapons. Many countries have harnessed the atom for electricity generation and other civilian uses. Roughly 440 commercial nuclear reactors operate in thirty countries providing 14 percent of the world's electricity. Volatile oil prices ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

    Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World?

    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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  • 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

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  • The Violent American Century

    War and Terror Since World War II

    by John W. Dower ...
    Series series Dispatch Books
    "Tells how America, since the end of World War II, has turned away from its ideals and goodness to become a match setting the world on fire" (Seymour Hersh, investigative journalist and national security correspondent).World War II marked the apogee of industrialized "total war." Great powers savaged one another. Hostilities engulfed the globe. Mobilization extended to virtually every sector of ... Read more

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