The Case for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in the ...
4,643円 This book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of nuclear weapons in its security strategies and the number of weapons in its arsenal. The case against nuclear weapons has been made on many groundsーincluding historical, pol...
Better Safe Than Sorry
5,041円 In 2008, the iconic doomsday clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientistswas set at five minutes to midnightー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 ...
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink
3,715円 My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapon...
The Wizards of Armageddon
4,934円 This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a chapter in American political and military histo...
Kettenreaktion
2,200円 1896 spürte Henri Becquerel im Uran eine seltsame Strahlung auf, die Marie Curie Radioaktivität nannte. In den folgenden Jahrzehnten lieferten die deutschen Physiker Max Planck, Albert Einstein und Werner Heisenberg grundlegende Beiträge zum Verständnis der Prozesse im Atomkern. In Göttingen, dem...
Patrolling the Cold War Skies
1,415円 A RAF pilot’s view of the Cold War, which conveys the excitement, danger and comedy of flying during that momentous historic period. Crafted to satisfy all aviation enthusiasts, novice and professional alike The Cold War is the hot topic of the moment. This book covers 28 years of patrolling...
Command and Control
1,399円 **The Oscar-shortlisted documentary Command and Control, directed by Robert Kenner, finds its origins in Eric Schlosser's book and continues to explore the little-known history of the management and safety concerns of America's nuclear aresenal. “A devastatingly lucid and detailed new history of ...
India's Doctrine Puzzle
10,943円 The balance of power in South Asia is tenuous. Neighbouring states with nuclear arsenal pose a serious threat in times of conflict and the danger of escalation into a nuclear holocaust in South are ever-present. This book locates the change in India’s war doctrine at the turn of the century, foll...
On Thermonuclear War
11,109円 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 We...
Bombing the Marshall Islands
4,245円 During the Cold War, the United States conducted atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. The total explosive yield of these tests was 108 megatons, equivalent to the detonation of one Hiroshima bomb per day over nineteen years. These tests, particularly Castle...
Three Days in Moscow
2,889円 "An instant classic, if not the finest book to date on Ronald Reagan." ー Jay Winik President Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War is revealed as never before by the #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier. Moscow, 1988: 1,000 miles be...
The Challenge of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons
10,943円 In the more than sixty years since the advent of nuclear weapons, there has been little meaningful progress toward nuclear disarmament. Some countries have nuclear weapons, while other states are forbidden to acquire them, a status quo that lacks rational basis and cannot be sustained. In this re...
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