Nuclear Warfare category: 350 books

Cover of The A to Z of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare
by Benjamin C. Garrett, John Hart
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009

Human experience with nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) warfare has been limited, especially in comparison to conventional forms of warfare. Our experience with nuclear warfare is confined to a period of less than one week during the end of World War II, when the United States successfully used...
Cover of Twenty-First-Century Strategy: An Introduction to Modern National Security Processes and Problems - Nuclear Strategy, Terrorism, WMD, Asymmetrical Warfare, Insurgency Warfare
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012

This new work defines national security strategy, its objectives, the problems it confronts, and the influences that constrain and facilitate its development and implementation in a post–Cold War, post–9/11 environment. The authors note that making and implementing national strategy centers on...
Cover of 21st Century U.S. Military Documents: Air Force Operations in a Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and High-Yield Explosive (CBRNE) Environment, Counter CBRNE, WMD, NBC Weapons
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013

How Air Force installations and units operate in a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosive environment is an evolving effort. In 2002 the Air Force implemented the counter-chemical warfare concept of operations (CONOPS) that changed how installations prepared for and...
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Life and Times of the Atomic Bomb

Nuclear Weapons and the Transformation of Warfare

by Albert I Berger
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016

Life and Times of the Atomic Bomb takes up the question of how the world found itself in the age of nuclear weapons – and how it has since tried to find a way out of it. Albert I. Berger charts the story of nuclear weapons from their origins through the Atomic Age and the Cold War up through the...
Cover of The Paradox of Power: Sino-American Strategic Restraint in an Age of Vulnerability - China and the U.S., Chinese Nuclear Weapons, Space, Cyberspace, Strategic Power, Cyber Warfare
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014

The first half of the 21st century will be dominated by the relationship between the United States and China. That relationship is likely to contain elements of both cooperation and competition. Territorial disputes such as those over Taiwan and the South China Sea will be an important feature of...
Cover of Rearming for the Cold War 1945-1960: History of Acquisition in the Department of Defense - Nuclear Weapons, Missiles and Rockets, Nuclear Navy, Air Force Bombers, Atomic Army
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013

This volume is a history of the acquisition of major weapon systems by the United States armed forces from 1945 to 1960, the decade and a half that spanned the Truman and Eisenhower administrations following World War II. These instruments of warfare—aircraft, armored vehicles, artillery, guided...
Cover of Tailored Deterrence: Influencing States and Groups of Concern - Case Studies of Russia, China in the Taiwan Strait, Nuclear-armed Iran, North Korea, Triad, Hussein and Gulf War Lessons, Zero Nukes
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2017

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Deterrence thinking has evolved from the Cold War to the present. During the period from 1945-1991 when the United States sought to deter attacks by the U.S.S.R. and Warsaw Pact, U.S. nuclear...
Cover of Inadvertent Escalation

Inadvertent Escalation

Conventional War and Nuclear Risks

by Barry R. Posen
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014

In this sobering book, Barry R. Posen demonstrates how the interplay between conventional military operations and nuclear forces could, in conflicts among states armed with both conventional and nuclear weaponry, inadvertently produce pressures for nuclear escalation. Knowledge of these hidden pressures,...
Cover of Air Force Doctrine Document 3-40: Counter-Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Operations (CBRN) - Proliferation Prevention, Strategic Enablers, Detection and Monitoring
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012

Air Force commanders and personnel must be able to prevent an attack of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons and be able to counter the resulting effects if such weapons are used. Air Force procedures and training must be developed with joint operations in mind. Airmen must understand...
Cover of History of the United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) - Nuclear Weapons, Cold War Strategy, Service Rivalries, Arms Control
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013

This history began as a project to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the US Strategic Command. As June 2002 approached, it became apparent that the command would be altered fundamentally by proposed modifications to the Unified Command Plan. We learned that a new command would be established that...
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Armageddon and Paranoia

The Nuclear Confrontation since 1945

by Rodric Braithwaite
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018

Former British Ambassador to the Soviet Union and author of the definitive account of the Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, Sir Rodric Braithwaite offers here a tour d'horizon of nuclear policy from the end of World War II and start of the Cold War to the present day. Armageddon and Paranoia...
Cover of The New Nuclear Danger

The New Nuclear Danger

George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex

by Dr. Helen Caldicott
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017

A global leader of the antinuclear movement delivers “a meticulous, urgent, and shocking report” on US weapons policy and the imminent dangers it poses (Booklist). First published in the wake of the September 11 attacks in 2001, The New Nuclear Danger sounded the alarm against a neoconservative...
Cover of Joint Doctrine for Operations in Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) Environments (Joint Publication 3-11) - Combat Operations, Health Service Support, Hazard Considerations
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012

This publication sets forth principles to assist commanders and staffs to plan for and conduct operations in which their forces may encounter the employment or threat of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and other toxic materials. These principles apply to joint, multinational, and interagency...
Cover of Terrorism and WMD in the Contemporary Operational Environment (U.S. Army TRADOC G2 Handbook 1.04) - CBRN Threat, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Chemical, Biological, Nuclear, Dirty Bomb
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015

Terrorism and WMD in the Contemporary Operational Environment is a supplemental handbook to the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, TRADOC G2 capstone reference guide on terrorism, TRADOC G2 Handbook No. 1, A Military Guide to Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century. Understanding terrorism and...
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