Arms Control category: 475 books
Able Archer 83
The Secret History of the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered Nuclear War
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In November 1983, Soviet nuclear forces went on high alert. After months nervously watching increasingly assertive NATO military posturing, Soviet intelligence agencies in Western Europe received flash telegrams reporting alarming activity on U.S. bases. In response, the Soviets began planning for...
by Sylvia Longmire
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Having followed Mexico's cartels for years, border security expert Sylvia Longmire takes us deep into the heart of their world to witness a dangerous underground that will do whatever it takes to deliver drugs to a willing audience of American consumers. The cartels have grown increasingly bold in...
National, International, and Human Security
A Comparative Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
This clear and concise new edition offers a comprehensive comparison of national, international, and human security concepts and policies. Laura Neack skillfully argues that security remains elusive because of a centuries-old ethic insisting that states are the primary and most important international...
by Joan Johnson-Freese
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Joan Johnson-Freese argues that the race for space weapons and the U.S. quest for exclusive or at least dominant ownership of strategic space assets have alienated the very allies that the United States needs in order to maintain its leading role in space exploration. Taking a balanced look at the...
The Last Decade of the Cold War
From Conflict Escalation to Conflict Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The 1980s was a period of almost unprecedented rivalry and tension between the two main actors in the East-West conflict, the United States and the Soviet Union. Why and how that conflict first escalated and thereafter, in an amazingly swift process, was reversed and brought to its peaceful conclusion...
by Gregg Herken
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Since the first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945, a close community of civilian experts, including scientists, academics, and think-tank intellectuals, has advised the American government on the prospects of nuclear war. Based on interviews with these experts, as well as hundreds of pages of recently...
Almighty
Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
****A Washington Post "Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016"**
ON A TRANQUIL SUMMER NIGHT** in July 2012, a trio of peace activists infiltrated the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Nicknamed the “Fort Knox of Uranium,” Y-12 was supposedly one of the most secure...
Fallout
The True Story of the CIA's Secret War on Nuclear Trafficking
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
More than a high-stakes espionage thriller, Fallout painstakingly examines the huge costs of the CIA’s errors and the lost opportunities to halt the spread of nuclear weapons technology long before it was made available to some of the most dangerous and reckless adversaries of the United States...
The Samson Option
Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
"Almost defies belief . . . a riveting tale of Israeli determination and cunning—and Washington's indecision, ineptitude and acquiescence."—Dallas Morning News
An investigation into Israel's nuclear capabilities discloses information about the country's rush toward nuclear status, its collaboration with South Africa and Iran, and its espionage activities.
Cry from the Deep
The Sinking of the Kursk, the Submarine Disaster That Riveted the World and Put the New Russia to the Ultimate Test
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
A gripping account of the disastrous Russian submarine explosion that killed the entire crew, devastated the Russian people, and defined Vladimir Putin's post–Cold War regime.
What were Russian officials thinking when they waited 48 hours to acknowledge their most prized submarine was in...
by Valeria Bashkirova, Vladislav Dorofeev, Alexander Solovev
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Heroes of the 90s is a book composed by journalists of the newspaper Kommersant. The book sheds light on the transformation of the USSR and the country’s social, state, financial, economic and civic institutions into a new state — the Russian Federation. The book covers Russia’s first decade...
From Mediation to Nation-Building
Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
The eruption in the early 1990s of highly visible humanitarian crises and exceedingly bloody civil wars in the Horn of Africa, imploding Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, set in motion a trend towards third party intervention in communal conflict in areas as far apart as the Balkans and East Timor. However...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
In a world that is increasingly disillusioned with formal politics, people are no longer prepared to wait for governments and international institutions to act on human rights concerns. This book identifies activism as a key means of realizing human rights and as a new form of politics.
Fighting...
China, The United States, and the Future of Latin America
U.S.-China Relations, Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Provides insight into U.S. and Chinese involvement in aid, trade, direct investment and strategic ties in Latin America
In recent years, China has become the largest trading partner for more than half the countries in Latin America, and demonstrated major commitments in aid and direct investment...