Nuclear Warfare category: 350 books

Cover of Defense Science Board (DSB) Reports: Nuclear Weapons Surety, Inspections for the Strategic Nuclear Forces, Permanent Task Force on Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Deterrence Skills
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012

Three reports by the Defense Science Board (DSB) provide unique information about America's nuclear weapons program.Part 1: Report of the Defense Science Board Permanent Task Force on Nuclear Weapons Surety On Nuclear Weapons Inspections for the Strategic Nuclear Forces - This task force...
Cover of Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Debunking the Mythology - Historical Context, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Limitations of Arms Control, Russian Nuclear Weapon Security, Proliferation
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013

This paper offers a concise summary of many of the difficult issues presented in addressing this category of weapons within nuclear policy and posture, and particularly within the arms control arena. Its four direct findings are worthy of full consideration and debate as we rethink the place and role...
Cover of Defense Department Nuclear Safety and Security Documents: Transportation of Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Weapons Transportation Manual
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012

Four unclassified Department of Defense documents, approved for public release, provide information on procedures for transporting nuclear weapons. Part 1: Logistic Transportation of Nuclear Weapons * Part 2: DoD Transportation of U.S. Nuclear Weapons * Part 3: DoD Nuclear Weapons Transportation...
Cover of Russian Nuclear Weapons: Past, Present, and Future - Strategy, Doctrine, Relationship to Conventional Forces, Tactical Nukes, New START and Nonproliferation, Threats, Putin, Lavrov
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014

This important report from the U.S. Army's Strategic Studies Institute provides unique insights into the Russian nuclear arsenal, arms control, and American-Russian relationships. Russian Nuclear Weapons: Past, Present, and Future * 1. Russian Nuclear and Conventional Weapons: The Broken Relationship...
Cover of Encyclopedia of Strategic Nuclear Forces - Missiles, Bombers, Submarines, Triad, Warheads, Modernization Plans, ICBM, SLBM, START Treaty, Long-Range Standoff (LRSO), Global Strike, Verification
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2016

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique book reproduces sixteen important government documents, reports, and studies dealing with American strategic nuclear forces, including the elements of the nuclear triad (missiles, bombers, and submarines), arms...
Cover of DoD Nuclear Weapons Management: Task Force Reports - Air Force's Nuclear Mission and Review of DoD Nuclear Mission, Atrophy, Deterrence Policy, Modernization, Sustainment, Oversight, Inspections
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2012

Serious incidents in 2006 (a misshipment to Taiwan of intercontinental ballistic missile [ICBM] components) and 2007 (an unauthorized weapons transfer) alerted the Department of Defense (DoD) to the Air Force's mishandling of nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons-related materiel. The ensuing investigations...
Cover of Taiwan's Former Nuclear Weapons Program: Nuclear Weapons On-Demand
by David Albright, Andrea Stricker
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018

Today, few would think of the peaceful island nation of Taiwan as a potential nuclear weapons proliferator.  But just a few decades ago, following the Chinese civil war and loss of the ruling party, Kuomintang (KMT), to the Communists, the KMT government evacuated to the island, where a government-in-refuge,...
Cover of Chain Reaction: Avoiding a Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East - Historical Lessons on Nuclear Roll Forward and Rollback, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Turkey, NATO, Relevant Nuclear Agreements
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2016

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique staff report for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee examines the factors that could motivate states of the Middle East to acquire nuclear weapons.Chapter 1 - Introduction * Chapter 2 - Historical...
Cover of Nuclear Weapons: Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions, Seismic Verification of Nuclear Testing Treaties, Environmental Monitoring to Verify Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaties
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014

Three authoritative reports provide unique information about nuclear weapons testing and the verification of nuclear nonproliferation treaties: (1) The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions, (2) Seismic Verification of Nuclear Testing Treaties, (3) Environmental Monitoring for Nuclear Safeguards. The...
Cover of Building a Strategic Air Force: 1945 through 1953, Cold War Atomic and Nuclear Weapons, Plans for Attacking Russia and the Soviet Union, Bombers, Eisenhower, LeMay, Vandenberg, Berlin Crisis
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014

On March 21, 1946, by order of Headquarters, Army Air Forces, Continental Air Forces received a new name, becoming the Strategic Air Command. This administrative procedure was intended to give some suggestion as to what the mission of that command was to be under the new structure of the air arm....
Cover of The Effects of Nuclear War: Tutorial on a Nuclear Weapon over Detroit or Leningrad, Civil Defense, Attack Cases and Long-Term Effects, Economic Damage, Fictional Account, Radiological Exposure
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013

This study from 1979 examines the full range of effects that nuclear war would have on civilians: direct effects from blast and radiation; and indirect effects from economic, social, and political disruption. Particular attention is devoted to the ways in which the impact of a nuclear war would extend...
Cover of Coercive Nuclear Campaigns in the 21st Century: Understanding Adversary Incentives and Options for Nuclear Escalation - Posing Four Grim Options, Plausibility of Conquest, U.S. Nuclear Forces
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2016

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This report examines why and how regional powers armed with nuclear weapons may employ those weapons coercively against the United States or U.S. allies during a conventional war. We argue...
Cover of Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board: The First Twenty Years - Hanford, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, From the Manhattan Project to the Cold War, Rocky Flats, Savannah River, Weapons Disassembly
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015

Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this important work reviews the history of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB). The DNFSB an independent oversight organization within the executive branch, was created by Congress in 1988 to provide advice...
Cover of To Join or Not to Join the Nuclear Club: How Nations Think about Nuclear Weapons: Two Middle East Case Studies - Libya and Pakistan
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

The current debate revolving around Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs highlights the need to foster a more complete understanding of the multidimensionality of states' decision-making process on whether to acquire and retain nuclear weapons. Case studies from the greater Middle East region...
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