Arms Control category: 475 books
by Anthony H. Cordesman
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
The Arabian Gulf is now involved in a massive arms race, triggered largely by the fear that Iran will try to use its military forces to intimidate or dominate its neighbors. Iran has threatened to close the Gulf and carried out a wide range of large military exercises to show its capabilities. And...
by Jeff Hecht
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Beam Weapons describes the roots of Ronald Reagan's 'Star Wars' quest for a strategic defense system to intercept and destroy nuclear ballistic missiles before they could reach their targets. The goal was to develop radically new beam weapons that destroyed nuclear missiles with directed...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Part of our value-added professional format series, the Multiservice Procedures for Humanitarian Assistance Operations Field Manual (FM 100-23) covers the role of the U.S. military in humanitarian assistance operations. This FM has been converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
Some...
Nuclear Weapons, Policy, and Strategy
The Uses of Atomic Energy in an Increasingly Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In this comprehensive introduction to nuclear physics, related national and international policy issues from Dr. Pete Pella, Gettysburg College nuclear physicist, educators will find a definitive textbook on the peaceful and military uses of nuclear energy. Pella traces both the scientific evolution...
Nuclear Designs
Great Britain, France and China in the Global Governance of Nuclear Arms
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Global politics has changed with unaccustomed swiftness since the end of the Cold War. Eastern Europe is free; the Soviet Union has broken up; China presses free market economic reform; and the United States and Russia have declared a joint commitment to end nuclear war. The force of these changes...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Global power is shifting to Asia. The U.S. military is embarking on an American "pivot" to the Indo-Pacific region, and the bulk of global arms spending is directed toward Asian theaters. India and Pakistan are thought to be building up their nuclear arsenals while questions persist about...
Haendler des Todes
Waffenhandel Rüstungsindustrie
Language: German
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Der Export und auch Import von Waffen ist von Land zu Land sehr unterschiedlich und lässt sich teils durch eine Verlagerung der Produktion ins Ausland umgehen. In Deutschland wird der Export durch das Außenwirtschaftsgesetz und Kriegswaffenkontrollgesetz reglementiert. Die Erlaubnis zum...
Chain Reaction and Chaos
Toward Modern Persia
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
In this new perspective, Iran’s quest for nuclear power—in the context of the global energy challenge and the Cold War-era nuclear arms race—takes on new dimension. This study goes beyond current affairs and analyzes interactions between the complex evolution of U.S. policy toward Iran and events...
Syria and the chemical weapons taboo
Exploiting the forbidden
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
This book analyses the Syria crisis and the role of chemical weapons in relation to US foreign policy. The Syrian government's use of such weapons and their subsequent elimination has dominated the US response to the conflict, where these are viewed as particularly horrific arms - a repulsion known...
by Lee Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A defense analyst who served on the frontlines of the struggle for military parity, the author was intensely engaged in the efforts of the US technical, military, and diplomatic communities to assess, counter, and of course to seek to outperform the Soviet Union from 1952 to 1989. His studies, tested...
The Age of Deception
Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
For the first time, the Nobel Prize laureate and "man in the middle" of the planet's most explosive confrontations speaks out—on his dealings with America, negotiations with Iran, reform and democracy in the Middle East, and the prospects for a future free of nuclear weapons.
For...
Why Israel Can't Wait
The Coming War Between Israel and Iran
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
The new Israeli government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly declared that a primary foreign policy objective is to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons capability.
Israel is a "one-bomb state," such that one atomic weapon, even a relatively low-yield bomb of...
The Iran Threat
President Ahmadinejad and the Coming Nuclear Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2007
From the controversial expert who brought Iran's nuclear program to the attention of the world in 2002 comes a searing exposé of the inner workings and plans of Iran's mullahs. With access to dissident groups inside Iran, Alireza Jafarzadeh traces President Ahmadinejad's radical roots and involvement...
The Bias Against Guns
Why Almost Everything You'Ve Heard About Gun Control Is Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
"If you want the truth the anti–gunners don't want you to know…you need a copy of The Bias Against Guns" —Sean Hannity of Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes