Arms Control category: 475 books
The Atomic Bazaar
Dispatches from the Underground World of Nuclear Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
In his shocking and revelatory new work, the celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning global threat of nuclear weapons production. The Atomic Bazaar is the story of the inexorable drift of nuclear weapons technology from the hands of the rich into the hands of the poor....
Peddling Peril
How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemie
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
**“THE UNLEASHED POWER OF THE ATOM HAS CHANGED EVERYTHING SAVE OUR MODES OF THINKING, AND WE THUS DRIFT TOWARD UNPARALLELED CATASTROPHE.” —ALBERT EINSTEIN
W**ith the revelation of Iran’s secret uranium enrichment facilities, North Korea’s brazen testing of missiles and nuclear weapons,...
by Wu Tingfang
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2019
While this book is by no means famous, it is a remarkable chance to look at America of 1914 through the eyes of an outsider. Wu Tingfang shows evidence of having thought through many issues of relevance to the United States, and while some of his thoughts are rather odd—such as his suggestion that...
No Use
Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
For more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama has gradually reduced the size of America's nuclear forces. Yet even now, over two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States...
Operation Shakespeare
The True Story of an Elite International Sting
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
A secret war. A daring sting operation. The great untold national security story of our time: “An impressive and important work…The book has the glamour of a spy novel and the gravity of a meticulously researched exposé” (Christian Science Monitor).
On today’s high-tech battlefields,...
by Barrie Machin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
In war, and in the time which precedes war, the social construction of meaning constantly reaffirms the worst fears of those Nations at odds with one another. War is a system of primitive thought and projection, which is worsened by each new phase in enmity. It is a function of witchcraft accusations...
The New Terrorism
Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 1999
Recent attacks in Oklahoma City, at the World Trade Towers, and at American embassies in Africa demonstrate the horrifying consequences of a terrorist strike. But as technological advances make weapons of mass destruction frighteningly easy to acquire, a revolution is occurring in the very nature...
#Duped
How the Anti-gun Lobby Exploits the Parkland School Shooting—and How Gun Owners Can Fight Back
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
While the nation grieves over tragedies like the Parkland school shooting, the anti-gun lobby jumps into action. They exploit such tragedies to advance their political agenda.
The gun grabbers—with the help of the mainstream media—trot out a few traumatized young survivors of the shootings...
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Published by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs in collaboration with the NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security pursuant to the purposes of the United Nations Disarmament Information Programme (UNDIP). Aims to inform, educate and generate public understanding of the importance...
Banning Landmines
Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
Banning Landmines: Disarmament, Citizen Diplomacy, and Human Security looks at accomplishments and setbacks in the crucial first decade of the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. The first half of the book considers the implementation of the prohibitions and humanitarian assistance provisions of the treaty, as...
How We Stopped Loving the Bomb
An insider's account of the world on the brink of banning nuclear arms
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Nobody loves nuclear weapons--except their powerfully placed defenders in government, their supporters in the military, and terrorists. When President Barack Obama brought his vision of a nuclear weapons-free world to the White House, he re-energized the peace movement. Today the historical momentum...
A Quest for Global Peace
Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2006
In his autobiography, Bertrand Russell wrote of Joseph Rotblat that 'He can have few rivals in the courage and integrity and complete self-abnegation with which he has given up his own career (in which, however, he still remains eminent) to devote himself to combating the nuclear peril as well as...
The US Versus the North Korean Nuclear Threat
Mitigating the Nuclear Security Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Although the current world order is still dominated by the US, there is increasing international concern over the possibility of regional security dilemmas arising from smaller powers’ attempts to develop Weapons of Mass Destruction. A study of US-North Korean interaction using the security dilemma...
Strategic Reassurance and Resolve
U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
After forty years of largely cooperative Sino-U.S. relations, policymakers, politicians, and pundits on both sides of the Pacific see growing tensions between the United States and China. Some go so far as to predict a future of conflict, driven by the inevitable rivalry between an established and...