Nuclear Warfare category: 350 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Air Force intelligence professionals play key roles in combating weapons of mass (WMD) destruction at combatant commands and components and national intelligence agencies. The Air Force, however, does...
The Bomb in the Basement
How Israel Went Nuclear and What That Means for the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
THE BOMB IN THE BASEMENT tells the fascinating story of how Israel became the Middle East's only nuclear power and -- unlike Iraq and Iran -- succeeded in keeping its atomic program secret.
Veteran Israeli journalist Michael Karpin explains how Israel, by far the smallest of the nuclear powers,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
This report from the Defense Science Board, issued in January 2014 and widely reported in the media, discusses the difficulty of detecting secret nuclear weapons activity and recommends improvements of nuclear monitoring and verification technologies.
A relatively straightforward, albeit technically...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2014
This study examines why Saddam Hussein pursued nuclear weapons and, as a basic aspect of that question, how he might have employed that capability had he acquired it, whether for deterrence, warfighting, or something else. As the key decision maker in Iraq, Saddam's own thinking was central. His perception...
Parmanu Politics
Indian Political Parties and Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This study, focusing on the nuclear-politics interface, examines which political party should be given credit, and how much in shaping India's nuclear weapons policy. Taking into account the views of the Congress, BJP and CPI {M), the study concludes that there is no single mother of India's nuclear...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
The terrifying prospect of nuclear terrorism striking an American city is the subject of these two reports: National Capital Region: Key Response Planning Factors for the Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism and Analysis of Sheltering and Evacuation Strategies for a National Capital Region Nuclear Detonation...
Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future
Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating the implications of nuclear weapons to the future of human civilization. Political and social forces often seemed paralyzed in thinking beyond the advent...
A Short History of Nuclear Folly
Mad Scientists, Dithering Nazis, Lost Nukes, and Catastrophic Cover-ups
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
In the spirit of Dr. Strangelove and The Atomic Café, a blackly sardonic people’s history of atomic blunders and near-misses revealing the hushed-up and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with catastrophe
Rudolph Herzog, the acclaimed author of Dead Funny, presents a devastating...
Bomb Scare
The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Since their inception, nuclear weapons have multiplied at an alarming rate, leaving everyone from policymakers to concerned citizens wondering what it will take to slow, stop, or even reverse their spread. With clarity and expertise, Joseph Cirincione presents an even-handed look at the history of...
by Elaine Scarry
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
From one of our leading social thinkers, a compelling case for the elimination of nuclear weapons.
During his impeachment proceedings, Richard Nixon boasted, "I can go into my office and pick up the telephone and in twenty-five minutes seventy million people will be dead." Nixon was...
The Double Game
The Demise of America's First Missile Defense System and the Rise of Strategic Arms Limitation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
How did the United States move from a position of nuclear superiority over the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 1960s to one of nuclear parity under the doctrine of mutual assured destruction in 1972? Drawing on declassified records of conversations three presidents had with their most trusted...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This is the fourth in a series of papers to examine the role of Congress in the development of the doctrinal and material strategic posture of the United States. This paper examines the role...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this unique study analyzes the current status of the Russian Federation's ballistic missile submarine force. It reviews the history of the ballistic missile submarine force, its current status, and the implementation...
Anticipating a Nuclear Iran
Challenges for U.S. Security
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
This volume is based on the assumption that Iran will soon obtain nuclear weapons, and Jacquelyn K. Davis and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Jr. develop alternative models for assessing the challenges of a nuclear Iran for U.S. security. Through three scenario models, the book explores the political, strategic,...