Arms Control category: 475 books
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel
In the Shadow of the Hawk
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
Lyndon B. Johnson and the Politics of Arms Sales to Israel seeks to reconstruct and elucidate the processes behind the decisions made by the Johnson Administration during the years 1965-68 to sell Israel M-48 tanks, A-4 Skyhawk planes and F-4 Phantom planes. This examination is based on a distinction between three factions which competed for influe
The Small Arms Trade
A Beginner's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This enlightening guide reveals the disturbing reality within the murky underworld of international arms trading.
by Jean-Marc Lebouquin
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
The list had already been in existence. The International Atomic Energy Agency had previously developed a list of inventories associated with the development and production of nuclear weapons – this is known as INFCIRC/254/Rev.9/Part 2a.
The INFCIRC/254/Rev.9/Part 2a list of inventories was...
Eating Grass
The Making of the Pakistani Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
The history of Pakistan's nuclear program is the history of Pakistan. Fascinated with the new nuclear science, the young nation's leaders launched a nuclear energy program in 1956 and consciously interwove nuclear developments into the broader narrative of Pakistani nationalism. Then, impelled first...
Sinai
Egypt's Linchpin, Gaza's Lifeline, Israel's Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Enclosed by the Suez Canal and bordering Gaza and Israel, Egypt's rugged Sinai Peninsula has been the cornerstone of the Egyptian-Israeli peace accords, yet its internal politics and security have remained largely under media blackout. While the international press descended on the capital Cairo in...
Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (Open Access)
Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World?
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.
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by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
In the Preface, the author writes:
I initially proposed my research to look at START II levels and beyond, focusing on the question, "How low can we go?" As I witnessed President George Bush's unilateral initiatives and the Washington Summit agreement, I realized that nuclear weapons...
Implications of the Reykjavik Summit on Its Twentieth Anniversary
Conference Report
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawn from presentations at the Hoover Institution's conference on the twentieth anniversary of the Reykjavik summit, this collection of essays examines the legacy of that historic meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The contributors discuss the new nuclear era and what the lessons of Reykjavik can mean for today's nuclear arms control efforts.
The Future of Extended Deterrence
The United States, NATO, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Are NATO’s mutual security commitments strong enough today to deter all adversaries? Is the nuclear umbrella as credible as it was during the Cold War? Backed by the full range of US and allied military capabilities, NATO’s mutual defense treaty has been enormously successful, but today’s commitments...
Rethinking the Bomb
Europe and Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The question of what Europe’s nuclear strategy should be is rarely discussed. While Europe continues to play a crucial role on issues relating to non-proliferation, particularly in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme, nuclear strategy is generally considered to be within remit of Russia,...
Global Nuclear Disarmament
Strategic, Political, and Regional Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book examines the issue of nuclear disarmament in different strategic, political, and regional contexts.
This volume seeks to provide a rich theoretical and practical insight to one of the major topics in the field of international security: global abolishment of nuclear weapons. Renewed...
Heavenly Ambitions
America's Quest to Dominate Space
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2012
In the popular imagination, space is the final frontier. Will that frontier be a wild west, or will it instead be treated as the oceans are: as a global commons, where commerce is allowed to flourish and no one country dominates? At this moment, nations are free to send missions to Mars or launch...
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...
Ballistic Missile Defence and US National Security Policy
Normalisation and Acceptance after the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
This book examines the transformation in US thinking about the role of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) in national security policy since the end of the Cold War.
The evolution of the BMD debate after the Cold War has been complex, complicated and punctuated. As this book shows, the debate and...