Science For Peace imprint: 5 books

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Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 1996

Edward C. Luck, President Emeritus, Senior Policy Advisor, United Nations Association of the United States of America This book is important reading for anyone interested in the future of the UN. It contains hundreds of reform ideas, most of them sound, all of them stimulating. The diversity...

Accidental Nuclear War

Proceedings of the Eighteenth Pugwash Workshop on Nuclear Forces

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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1990

This book constitutes the Proceedings of a meeting held in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, 18-20 July 1989, which was the eighteenth in a series of Workshops on Nuclear Forces held in the framework of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. This particular series of Workshops was initiated in...

Arctic Alternatives

Civility of Militarism in the Circumpolar North

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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1992

This book in itself is testimony to transition in the affairs of the north circumpolar region. Written in 1988 and updated in 1990, the papers assembled here have been overtaken by events. Non-military or civil requirements thus seemed to warrant a new and far more important place in our understanding...
by John Bacher
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000

High gas prices aren’t the end of the world- but they may be the beginning of the end. This, at least, is the feeling of many who shudder at the staggering power oil-rich countries have over the world’s political affairs. In Petrotyranny, John Bacher uncovers the frightening facts of the...

Good Taxes

The Case for Taxing Foreign Currency Exchange and Other Financial Transactions

by Alex C. Michalos
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1997

Financial transactions taxes are in force in all the major developed countries except the USA and Canada. Typically the tax is 0.25% or less, paid whenever stocks and shares or bonds, etc. change hands. The tax originally proposed by Tobin would be a new tax applicable to all international transactions...
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