Arms Control category: 475 books
Employment Regulation in the Workplace
Basic Compliance for Managers
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
This textbook acquaints readers with the major federal statutes and regulations that control management and employment practices in the American workplace. The material is presented from the perspective that the human resource professional is the employer's representative and is, therefore, responsible...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Last year, the war in Syria became a melee––the US, Russia, NATO, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Lebanon and some others struggled to bring peace to the region. But each stakeholder hankered after a different end state––President Bashar al-Assad’s continuance in power became a contentious issue....
Nuclear Authority
The IAEA and the Absolute Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Once dismissed as ineffectual, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has in the past twenty years emerged as a powerful international organization. Member states allow the IAEA to render judgment on matters vital to peace and security while nations around the globe comply with its rules and commands...
by Jean-Marc Lebouquin
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
On 10 and 11 September 2015 both Houses of the 114th Congress debated and voted on a deal negotiated by Barack Obama and Ministers of the Govt. of Iran. The Congress believed the JCPOA, signed in Vienna on 14 July 2015, was the whole "Iran Deal," (it is not). The Congressional Record reveals that...
Politics and the Bomb
The Role of Experts in the Creation of Cooperative Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreements
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Epistemic communities represent networks of knowledge-based experts that help articulate cause-and-effect relationships of complex problems, define the self-interests of a state, or formulate specific policies for state decision makers. However, the role of these scientists and knowledgeable professionals...
by Reg Grant
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Written in British English, In The Cold War, significant events that helped shape the Cold War are explored, including: the first H-bomb test; the Vietnam War; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
by Reg Grant
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Written in British English, The Cold War explores the secrets of the Cold War. The superpowers never fought openly on a battlefield. Instead, they attacked one another by underhand means—spying, propaganda, secret operations, and guerrilla wars.
1983
Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
A riveting, real-life thriller about 1983--the year tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union nearly brought the world to the point of nuclear Armageddon
The year 1983 was an extremely dangerous one--more dangerous than 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the United...
by Michael Dobbs
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In thishour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we came...
Above and Beyond
John F. Kennedy and America's Most Dangerous Cold War Spy Mission
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours comes the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis
During the ominous two weeks of the Cold War's...
by Stuart Chisholm
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Guns are a hot topic. They’re controversial. They’re political. A discussion on guns is a discussion about life and death, and this brings morality and emotion into play. Public opinion is divided and entire groups have aligned against one another, each one touting “facts” that support their...
The 'Too Difficult' Box
The Big Issues Polititians Can't Crack
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE... BANKING? DRUG REGULATION? NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT? PROSTITUTION? PENSIONS? It's no secret that a myriad of long-term problems facing our society are not effectively dealt with by our current system of government; indeed, many are simply set aside and disappear completely...
Pakistan
Between Mosque and Military
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Among U.S. allies in the war against terrorism, Pakistan cannot be easily characterized as either friend or foe. Nuclear-armed Pakistan is an important center of radical Islamic ideas and groups. Since 9/11, the selective cooperation of president General Pervez Musharraf in sharing intelligence with...
Surviving Amid Chaos
Israel's Nuclear Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Now facing a genuinely unprecedented configuration of existential threats, Israel's leaders must decide whether to continue their deliberate nuclear ambiguity policy (the "bomb in the basement") as they consider such urgent and overlapping survival issues as regional nuclear proliferation,...