2,122円 GRIPPING, MOVING AND INSPIRING: the remarkable life of a world-leading expert in chemical weapons defence. "Unlike any account of warfare I've read" - Billy Billingham For thirty years, Hamish has served and volunteered in conflict zones around the world. As the army's foremost chemical weapons e...

760円 Durante octubre de 1962 el mundo estuvo en vilo ante el casi inminente inicio de una nueva guerra donde las armas nucleares eran la mayor amenaza. Una riña de intereses entre las dos potencias mundiales, Estados Unidos y la entonces Unión Soviética amenazó con volar el planeta en mil pedazos. El ...

7,031円 The study of nuclear weapons is dominated by a single theory - that of the nuclear revolution, or mutual assured destruction (MAD). Although such theorists largely perceive nuclear competition as irrational and destined for eventual stalemate, the nuclear arms race between superpowers during the ...

4,230円 Political Fallout is the story of one of the first human-driven, truly global environmental crisesーradioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing during the Cold Warーand the international response. Beginning in 1945, the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union detonated hundreds of nucle...

310円 The Riot Act, enacted in 1714, is a pivotal piece of legislation that addresses public disorder and the government's response to it. This text exemplifies the legal prose of the early 18th century, deeply embedded in the political context of post-Glorious Revolution Britain. The Act empowered loc...

14,923円 After the bitter lessons of German self-disarmament in 1919, Britain was far more alert and focused when it came to overseeing the disarmament of Germany's naval forces after World War II. This book shows how well-prepared the British were second time around.

2,827円 Perhaps no scientific development has shaped the course of modern history as much as the harnessing of nuclear energy. Yet the twentieth century might have turned out differently had greater influence over this technology been exercised by Great Britain, whose scientists were at the forefront of ...

1,725円 On the seventy-fifth anniversary of the first atomic bomb, discover new reflections on the Manhattan Project from President Barack Obama, hibakusha (survivors), and the modern-day mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The creation of the atomic bomb during World War II, codenamed the Manhattan Projec...

9,948円 Rising concern over the increasing threat of nuclear war impelled the 2017 United Nations (UN) negotiations and adoption by 122 UN member states of a Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The Treaty seeks to ban nuclear weapons globally in the same way chemical and biological weapons have...

1,415円 As a very young boy in the Second World War the seeds were sown to fly in the blue sky. Terry made up his young mind with great determination to reach for that sky in a 'Spitfire'. He joined the RAF as a pilot but twists of fate caused him to become a nuclear bomber pilot. It was RAF policy not t...

9,948円 Preventing Nuclear War: The Medical and Humanitarian Case for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons provides a window into the work of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) health professionals, advocates and activists as they persuaded diplomats, parliamentarians, t...

2,519円 The hands of humans split the atom and reshaped the world. Gradually revealing a sublime nightmare that begins with spontaneous nuclear fission in the protozoic and ends with the omnicide of the human race, The Manhattan Project traces the military, cultural, and scientific history of the develop...