Nuclear Shadowboxing
Author: Vladimir Minkov
Publisher: DeVolpi, Inc.
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 581
ISBN-13: 0977773418
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Vladimir Minkov
Publisher: DeVolpi, Inc.
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 581
ISBN-13: 0977773418
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alexander DeVolpi
Publisher: DeVolpi, Inc.
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 097777340X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kristen Iversen
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2013-06-04
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 0307955656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“An intimate and deeply human memoir that shows why we should all be concerned about nuclear safety, and the dangers of ignoring science in the name of national security.”—Rebecca Skloot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks A shocking account of the government’s attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic waste released by a secret nuclear weapons plant in Colorado and a community’s vain search for justice—soon to be a feature documentary Kristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." Full Body Burden is the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and--unknown to those who lived there--tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets--both family and government. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what was made at Rocky Flats--best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions and discovered some disturbing realities. Based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully written book is both captivating and unnerving.
Author: Muthiah Alagappa
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 0804760861
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Long Shadow investigates the purposes and roles of nuclear weapons in the new security environment, the nature and content of the national nuclear strategies of relevant states, and their implications for international security and stability in the Asian security region
Author: Richard K. Betts
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 0815717083
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In numerous crises after World War II—Berlin, Korea, the Taiwan Straits, and the Middle East—the United States resorted to vague threats to use nuclear weapons in order to deter Soviet or Chinese military action. On a few occasions the Soviet Union also engaged in nuclear saber-ratling. Using declassified documents and other sources, this volume examines those crises and compares the decisionmaking processes of leaders who considered nuclear threats with the commonly accepted logic of nuclear deterrence and coercion. Rejecting standard explanations of our leader's logic in these cases, Betts suggests that U.S. presidents were neither consciously blufffing when they made nuclear threats, nor prepared to face the consequences if their threats failed. The author also challenges the myth that the 1950s was a golden age of low vulberability for the United Stateas and details how nuclear parity has, and has not, altered conditions that gave rise to nuclear blackmail in the past.
Author: David Hafemeister
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-03-29
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 3319253670
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book fills a clear gap in the literature for a technically-focused book covering nuclear proliferation and related issues post-9/11. Using a concept-led approach which serves a broad readership, it provides detailed overview of nuclear weapons, nuclear proliferation and international nuclear policy. The author addresses topics including offensive and defensive missile systems, command and control, verification, weapon effects, and nuclear testing. A chronology of nuclear arms is presented including detailed discussion of the Cold War, proliferation, and arms control treaties. The book is tailored to courses on nuclear proliferation, and the general reader will also find it a fascinating introduction to the science and strategy behind international nuclear policy in the modern era.
Author: Richard Rhodes
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-09-06
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 0307387410
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The final volume in Richard Rhodes's prizewinning history of nuclear weapons offers the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in the post-Cold War age. The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Richard Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers--Russia, Great Britain, France, China, and especially the United States--have struggled with new realities. He reveals the real reasons George W. Bush chose to fight a second war in Iraq, assesses the emerging threat of nuclear terrorism, and offers advice on how our complicated relationships with North Korea and South Asia should evolve. Finally, he imagines what a post-nuclear world might look like, as only he can.
Author: Alvin Z. Rubinstein
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-04-13
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0691228035
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The description for this book, Moscow's Third World Strategy, will be forthcoming.
Author: Benjamin Frankel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-04-03
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 1135068216
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Realism has been the subject of critical scrutiny for some time and this examination aims to identify and define its strengths and shortcomings, making a contribution to the study of international relations.