Arms Control category: 475 books
Nuclear Security
The Problems and the Road Ahead
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Concern about the threat posed by nuclear weapons has preoccupied the United States and presidents of the United States since the beginning of the nuclear era. Nuclear Security draws from papers presented at the 2013 meeting of the American Nuclear Society examining worldwide efforts to control nuclear...
by Paul Holden
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
The Arms Deal’s taint of corruption has hovered spectre-like over South African politics since 1999, when Patricia de Lille’s revelations first hit Parliament. In the foreword to The Arms Deal in Your Pocket, former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein describes the Arms Deal as ‘the moment at which the...
by Nicholas Gilby
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
One of the few up-to-date works on the whole of the arms trade, this book puts the global trade in weapons in the context of history and includes recent controversial deals, as well as case studies on Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Darfur. It exposes the cynicism, bribery, and insider deals that characterize...
by Byron Goines
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
All current and future gun control advocates should have this book in their book library as this book can be utilized as an effective training tool for Second Amendment debate with pro-gun facets of society.
In “The Insurrectionist Mindset of Pro-Gun Facets of Society,” Byron Goines explains...
Governing Guns, Preventing Plunder
International Cooperation against Illicit Trade
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
From human trafficking to the smuggling of small arms to the looting of antiquities, illicit trade poses significant threats to international order. So why is it so difficult to establish international cooperation against illicit trade? Governing Guns, Preventing Plunder offers a novel, thought-provoking...
Return to Armageddon
The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2003
When the Cold War ended, the world let out a collective sigh of relief as the fear of nuclear confrontation between superpowers appeared to vanish overnight. As we approach the new millennium, however, the proliferation of nuclear weapons to ever more belligerent countries and factions raises alarming...
by Bhumitra Chakma
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
South Asia is often viewed as a potential nuclear flashpoint and a probable source of nuclear terrorism. But, how valid are such perceptions? This book seeks to address this question and assesses the region’s nuclear security from two principal standpoints. First, it evaluates the robustness of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
First published in 1983, this book reports from the middle of the nuclear arms race, when the world's two superpowers, the US and the USSR, were adding increasingly sophisticated weapons to their arsenals, reaching a point where they could effectively wipe each other out many times over. Some of Canada's...
by Deepayan Basu Ray, Martin Butcher, Ben Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2012
Across the world 2,000 people die each day from armed violence. Crucial negotiations for an arms trade treaty are taking place at the United Nations throughout July 2012. Oxfam's eBook 'The Final Countdown' explores the devastating impact of the arms trade and explains what the new treaty must contain...
Controlling Small Arms
Consolidation, innovation and relevance in research and policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
This edited volume takes stock of the state of research and policy on the issue of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), ten years after the UN first agreed to deal with the problem.
The end of the Cold War originated a series of phenomena that would subsequently come to dominate the political...
Leadership and Policy Innovation - From Clinton to Bush
Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Throughout the Cold War there were longstanding efforts to control the spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) through extensive arms control, deterrence, and defense programs. Since then counterproliferation efforts by the U.S. and international community have accelerated. Given the attention...
Indefensible
Seven Myths that Sustain the Global Arms Trade
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Draws on extensive, in-depth research into the arms trade, featuring examples from around the world
The arms trade is frequently in the news and a target of NGO and activist campaigns - this book will remain topical for a long time to come
Brings together a range of distinguished...
by Alejandro Roque Glez
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The author concisely takes us into the Scriptures to show if they really support the political systems categorized as Socialist and Capitalist; together with a committed chapter on the biblical and natural right of all human beings to defend themselves and their families by carrying arms and using...
Weapon of Choice
Small Arms and the Culture of Military Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
This book examines Western military technological innovation through the lens of developments in small arms during the twentieth century. These weapons have existed for centuries, appear to have matured only incrementally and might seem unlikely technologies for investigating the trajectory of military-technical...