Arms Control category: 475 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2010
The Nuclear Posture Review, released in April 2010, reflects policy changes implemented by the Obama Administration on force structure and use policy. Contents of the NPR report include: The Changed and Changing Nuclear Security Environment; Preventing Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Terrorism;...
Stable Nuclear Zero
The Vision and its Implications for Disarmament Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
This volume examines the conditions necessary for a stable nuclear-weapons-free world and the implications for nuclear disarmament policy.
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is a road map to nuclear zero, but it is a rudimentary one and it says nothing about the kind of zero to aim...
by T.V. Paul
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons. What explains this? According to the author, the answer lies in a prohibition inherent in the tradition of non-use, a time-honored obligation that has been adhered to by all nuclear states—thanks to a consensus view...
Asia, the US and Extended Nuclear Deterrence
Atomic Umbrellas in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Since the end of the Cold War, significant attention has focussed on the issue of nuclear deterrence and in particular whether formal nuclear security guarantees from nuclear weapons states to non-nuclear weapons states involving the possible use of nuclear weapons have a place in the twenty-first...
Nonproliferation Policy and Nuclear Posture
Causes and Consequences for the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This volume examines the causes and consequences of nuclear postures and nonproliferation policies.
The real-world importance of nuclear weapons has led to the production of a voluminous scholarly literature on the causes and consequences of nuclear weapons proliferation. Missing from this...
The Twilight of the Bombs
Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes’s monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post–Cold War age.
The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary...
Rogue States and Nuclear Outlaws
America's Search for a New Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1996
In this incisive examination of our national security policy, Michael Klare suggests that the Pentagon in effect established a new class of enemies when the Cold War came to an -unpredictable and hostile states in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Klare argues that the containment of these rising Third...
Weapons Proliferation and War in the Greater Middle East
Strategic Contest
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
This important new book explores the strategic reasons behind the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as well as ballistic missile delivery systems in the Greater Middle East.
It examines the uses and limitations of chemical weapons in regional combat, ballistic missile warfare...
Globalization and WMD Proliferation
Terrorism, Transnational Networks and International Security
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
This edited volume explores the relationship between the accelerating process of globalization and the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, which is increasingly seen as the pre-eminent threat to international security.
The proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction has traditionally...
Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Search for Global Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
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...
Nuclear Asymmetry and Deterrence
Theory, Policy and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
This book offers a broader theory of nuclear deterrence and examines the way nuclear and conventional deterrence interact with non-military factors in a series of historical case studies.
The existing body of literature largely leans toward the analytical primacy of nuclear deterrence and it...
Recollections
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Phyl Amadi looks back at life growing up in Nigeria in this collection of essays that celebrates a time of simplicity when tribes lived in harmony.
But that idyllic life did not last: He also lived through the dark days of the Nigeria-Biafra civil war that broke out in 1967 and lasted until...
by Sun Tzu
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2018
*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.***
Synopsis:
The Art of War is a 6th Century BC Chinese treatise on war and military strategy known for its timeless examples of strategy and planning. There is intense interest in this ancient work since...
by Reg Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
The Cold War explores the secrets of the Cold War. The superpowers never fought openly on a battlefield. Instead, they attacked one another by underhand means—spying, propaganda, secret operations, and guerrilla wars.