Nuclear Warfare category: 350 books
In Time Of Emergency
A Citizen's Handbook On Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
In Time of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters provides individuals and families with information on what can and should be done to enhance survival in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. Chapters cover: general guidance, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, winter...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
As the Obama administration took office, Russo-American relations were generally acknowledged to be at an impasse. Arms control issues feature prominently in that conflicted agenda. Indeed, as of September 2008, the Bush administration was contemplating not just a break in arms talks but actual sanctions,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book analyzes the Air Force's decisions made concerning the advancement of tactical conventional airpower from 1953 to 1961. This study evaluates the decision-making process at three distinct levels using...
Last of the Glow Worms
Memoir of a Nuclear Weapons Technician at the End of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
From the early 1950s until 1992, the U.S. Army deployed thousands of nuclear warheads throughout Europe as a deterrent to Soviet ambitions. The end of the Cold War saw the decommissioning of much of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the phasing out of support personnel. This memoir by one of the Army’s...
Trinity
The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times
"Trinity" was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. Trinity is now also the extraordinary story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son,...
Understanding the imaginary war
Culture, thought and nuclear conflict, 1945–90
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This collection offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had imaginations of nuclear devastation as one of its main battlegrounds. The book includes survey chapters and case studies on Western Europe, the USSR, Japan and the USA. Looking at various strands...
Containing Iran
Strategies for Addressing the Iranian Nuclear Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Iran's nuclear program is one of this century's principal foreign policy challenges. Despite U.S., Israeli, and allied efforts, Iran has an extensive enrichment program and likely has the technical capacity to produce at least one nuclear bomb if it so chose. This study assesses U.S. policy options,...
The Control Agenda
A History of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
The Control Agenda is a sweeping account of the history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), their rise in the Nixon and Ford administrations, their downfall under President Carter, and their powerful legacies in the Reagan years and beyond.
Matthew Ambrose pays close attention to...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. North Korea's economic straits provide one of the few levers to move the country to cooperate in attempts by the United States, China, South Korea, Japan, and Russia to halt and dismantle...
Wales and the Bomb
The Role of Welsh Scientists and Engineers in the UK Nuclear Programme
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
The main focus of this book is on the contribution of Welsh scientists, engineers and facilities in Wales to the British nuclear programme – especially the military programme – from the Second World War through to the present day. After the war, a number of Welsh scientists at Harwell played an...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team Management - This regulation instruction prescribes policies, procedures, and responsibilities governing the employment of National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction - Civil Support Teams (WMD-CSTs) in support of the National Guard homeland security,...
by Michael Harris
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Catch-22 with radiation.
Area 51 meets Dr. Strangelove.
Except it really happened.
THE ATOMIC TIMES is the absolutely insane, incredibly f*cked-up, but true, eyewitness story of what happened in 1956 on a tiny island in the South Pacific when over 1600 young soldiers (including...
Nuclear Dawn
The Atomic Bomb, from the Manhattan Project to the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 brought the world to a stand still. This unimaginable shock confirmed to the world that the race to develop a working atomic weapon during World War II had been won by the American-led international effort. Horrific and controversial even today,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
The advent of nuclear weapons, brought about by the Manhattan Project, not only helped bring an end to World War II but ushered in the atomic age and determined how the next war—the Cold War—would be fought. The Manhattan Project also became the organizational model behind the impressive achievements...