1,550円 This book stands as one of the most intellectually rigorous and comprehensive examinations of asymmetric warfare available in contemporary strategic literature. Moving beyond simplified tactical approaches, this work develops a sophisticated framework for understanding how conventionally weaker a...

3,522円 Seconds to Midnight is a concise history of nuclear weapons, tracing their development from the scientific breakthroughs of the 1930s to the Cold War arms race between East and West, and on to today’s nuclear hotspots in India, North Korea, Taiwan, and Iran. The book also explores efforts to cont...

7,259円 In the early days of the Cold War, the United States Army underwent a fundamental shift in its strategic thinking. While World War II was won on a doctrinal paradigm of combined arms, the US Army of the 1950s believed that atomic weapons would change how international conflicts were won and lost....

7,295円 A sobering edited volume on how efforts to reduce nuclear weapons dangers may sometimes wind up exacerbating them. The existential risks posed to the world by nuclear weapons are growing. Efforts to halt nuclear proliferation, manage crises, promote arms control, and build alliances are all consi...

5,305円 A comprehensive technical history of China’s nuclear warhead development and testing, as well as a new framework for understanding China’s efforts to modernize its nuclear arsenal. The Untold Story of China’s Nuclear Weapon Development and Testing offers the most comprehensive account of China’s ...

2,800円 "Le Pentagone, un bâtiment qui compte cinq façades et cinq niveaux au-dessus du sol, explose avec tout ce qu’il contient, six cent mille mètres carrés de bureaux réduits en poussière ardente par le flash lumineux et thermique initial. L’arrivée quasi simultanée de l’onde de choc fracasse les murs...

2,600円 Voici une histoire totale et inédite des instants où le monde manqua être détruit par la bombe atomique. Des explosions nucléaires au Japon en 1945 à la récente escalade entre l’Iran et les États-Unis, en passant par la crise du détroit de Formose entre Taïwan et la Chine populaire (1954), Dien B...

1,267円 Why is the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight than ever before? In Tickling the Dragon's Tail, readers are taken deep inside the political and military decisions that have shaped our nuclear age. From the bombing of Hiroshima to near-catastrophes like the Cuban Missile Crisis and a NATO exercise t...

2,177円 A newly discovered, powerful and devastating firsthand account of the Hiroshima bombing and its aftermath, from one of the survivors profiled in John Hersey's landmark 1946 account, Hiroshima. On the morning of August 6, 1945, Kiyoshi Tanimoto was on the outskirts of Hiroshima, helping a neighbor...

5,638円 The remarkable story of the forgotten British scientists who enabled the Manhattan Project to create the atomic bomb Atomic weaponry is widely understood as a story of American scientific achievementーbut scientists working in Britain played a vital role in its development. Including Nobel Prize ...

1,327円 Major investigative nonfiction on one of the most important stories of our time -- the spread of nuclear weapons -- written by two award-winning journalists who for years have followed the trail of the world's most notorious arms dealer. The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first t...

200円 The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America Vol. 1 (of 3) by William Gordon is a meticulously detailed and compelling account of the American struggle for independence. In this audiobook, Gordon combines thorough research with vivid nar...