Arms Control category: 475 books
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
This up-to-date and authoritative guide to American nuclear weapons provides a comprehensive description of all facets of the history and current status of the nuclear arsenal, plus background data on bomb design and weapons effects. It is an expanded and revised version of the earlier Nuclear Weapons...
Indian Power Projection
Ambition, Arms and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
India is growing into one of Asia’s most important military powers. Its defence budget has more than doubled in the past decade, and it imports more arms than anyone else in the world. But India is still seen as a land power focused on long, disputed and militarised borders with Pakistan and China...
by Risa Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Arab leaderships have been remarkably stable since the 1970s, particularly given the frequency of military coups in preceding years. Nonetheless, the military remains a key force in most Arab states and political leaders must maintain its loyalty if they are to retain office. Regimes have used a range...
by Georgios Zizopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2017
In this study, is being developed and examined the validity of a hypothesized propensity in Turkey's future entropy for nuclear arms under the perspective of being connected to energy and climate change policies; as a case study.
In particular, whether Turkey could at least seek and pursuit technological...
by Stuart Casey-Maslen, Tobias Vestner
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2019
Disarmament is integral to the safeguarding and promotion of security, development, and human rights. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year on disarmament operations, yet no comprehensive guide exists to explain clearly the international rules governing disarmament. This book seeks to...
Shopping for Bombs
Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
A.Q. Khan was the world's leading black market dealer in nuclear technology, described by a former CIA Director as "at least as dangerous as Osama bin Laden." A hero in Pakistan and revered as the Father of the Bomb, Khan built a global clandestine network that sold the most closely guarded nuclear...
Bilderberg Club 1954 - 2011
‖All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the new world order.― Bilderberger David Rockefeller
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
‖All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the new world order.― Bilderberger David Rockefeller
Many conspiracy theories on the internet, including illuminati’s, aliens or even calling the Bilderberger meeting a secret World Governments are...
by Conrad Powell
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
"Sandy Hook Slaughter..." explains the developing set of events that led to the now infamous massacre in Connecticut. It weighs the gun control debate providing a brief history of gun control positions and offers solutions to the problem. it also examines the autism factor and takes a critical look...
How the End Begins
The Road to a Nuclear World War III
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The president loses control of fifty nukes for nearly an hour. Russian nuclear bombers almost bump wingtips with American fighter jets over the Pacific coast. North Korea detonates nuclear weapons underground. Iran’s nuclear shroud is penetrated by a computer worm. Al-Qaeda goes on the hunt for...
by Adam Salomon
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
February 14, 2018 started out as an average day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High. But the Parkland, Florida school, and America as we knew it, would be forever changed by the events that transpired later that morning. Fourteen students and three faculty members lost their lives and seventeen others...
Private Military and Security Contractors
Controlling the Corporate Warrior
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Private Military and Security Contractors (PMSCs) a multinational team of scholars and experts address a developing phenomenon: controlling the use of privatized force by states in international politics. Robust analyses of the evolving, multi-layered tapestry of formal and informal mechanisms of...
Renegade Regimes
Confronting Deviant Behavior in World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
Rogue states pursue weapons of mass destruction, support terrorism, violate human rights, engage in acts of territorial aggression, and pose a threat to the international community. Recent debates and policy shifts regarding Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan reflect the uneven attempts...
The Hawk and the Dove
Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A brilliant and revealing biography of the two most important Americans during the Cold War era—written by the grandson of one of them
Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning—and...
The Doomsday Machine
Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
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