Arms Control category: 475 books
Of Arms and Men : A History of War Weapons and Aggression
A History of War, Weapons, and Aggression
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 1989
The appearance of the crossbow on the European battle field in A.D. 1100 as the weapon of choice for shooting down knights threatened the status quo of medieval chivalric fighting techniques. By 1139 the Church had intervened outlawing the use of the crossbow among Christians. With this edict arms...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This important and timely work, prepared by the leading researchers, planners, and policymakers from both Eastern and Western alliances, analyzes the major issues in the Vienna talks on conventional forces in Europe involving NATO and Warsaw Pact nations. It is likely to have a significant influence...
British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban 1954-1973
Britain, the United States, Weapons Policies and Nuclear Testing: Tensions and Contradictions
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
In 1962 Dean Acheson famously described Britain as having lost an Empire but not yet found a role. Perhaps nowhere is this more apparent than in the realms of nuclear weapons. An increasingly marginal world power, successive post-war British governments felt that an independent nuclear deterrent was...
Taking Aim at the Arms Trade
NGOS, Global Civil Society and the World Military Order
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Taking Aim at The Arms Trade: NGOs, Global Civil Society and the World Military Order takes a critical look at the ways in which NGOs portray the arms trade as a problem of international politics and the strategies they use to effect change. NGOs have been pivotal in bringing the suffering caused...
by Alexander Kelle, Kathryn Nixdorff, Malcolm Dando
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race responds to a growing concern that changes in the life sciences and the nature of warfare could lead to a resurgent interest in chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capabilities. By bringing together a wide range of historical material and current literature in...
by Michael T. Klare
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
U.S. arms sales to Third World countries rapidly escalated from $250 million per year in the 1950s and 1960s to $10 billion and above in the 1970s and 1980s. But were these military sales, so critical in their impact on Third World nations and on America’s perception of its global role, achieving the...
Nuclear Weapons and International Security
Collected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This volume brings together more than three decades of research and writings by Professor Ramesh Thakur on the challenges posed by nuclear weapons.
Following an introduction to the current nuclear state of play, the book addresses the challenge of nuclear weapons in three parts. Part I describes...
The Politics of Destroying Surplus Small Arms
Inconspicuous Disarmament
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Although it receives much less attention than better known disarmament processes, the destruction of small arms is reshaping the military arsenals of the world. Out of roughly 200 modern military small arms world-wide, about 500,000 are destroyed every year. The commitment of major governments and...
Approaching the Nuclear Tipping Point
Cooperative Security in an Era of Global Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017
Globalization and technology have created new challenges to national governments. As a result, they now must share power with other entities, such as regional and global organizations or large private economic units. In addition, citizens in most parts of the world have been empowered by the ability...
Nuclear Disarmament
A Critical Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
This volume, Nuclear Disarmament, provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear disarmament and a critical assessment of the way forward.
Comprising essays by leading scholars on nuclear disarmament, the book highlights arguments in favour and against a world without nuclear weapons (global...
World Peace Through Law
Replacing War with the Global Rule of Law
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book deals with the history and future of the concept of ‘world peace through law’ (WPTL), which advocates replacing the use of international force with the global rule of law.
WPTL calls for replacing war with the global rule of law by arms reductions, including the abolition of nuclear...
Arms Trade
Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Despite the fact that arms manufacturing in most Western nations ultimately represents vast fortunes of public funds flowing into private coffers for products that deal in injury or death, the industry is usually represented as a source of national pride. So pervasive is its influence that when it comes...
by Byron Goines
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Byron Goines delivers irrefutable truth in the revised and expanded 2nd Edition of Gun Control and the Second Amendment, debunking the pro-gun facet myth of the Second Amendment being for individuals to have the right to bear arms in order to rise up against a tyrannical government. The 2nd Edition...
by Ritu Mathur
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book explores how the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a leading humanitarian actor, addresses the problem of weapons. A triangulation of strategies such as testimonialization, medicalization and legalization, are investigated, with the help of critical security studies literature,...