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Examines the clear and present danger posed by nuclear armament in the 21st century and efforts to neutralize plans by nations, rogue states, and zealot factions alike to detonate them. A senior consultant on India's nuclear weapon stance, retired General Lee Butler, of the Strategic Air Command, Igor Sutyagin, from the Russian military, Sir Michael Alexander, former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, and actor/producer Michael Douglas, a UN Messenger...
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This study draws on case studies of postwar arms control negotiations to dissect the many barriers to arms control agreements: ideological conflict and the political and military obstacles inherent in great-power competition, psychological factors, domestic obstacles, and the momentum of weapon technology.
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This book discusses some of the most fundamental contemporary issues affecting global peace. The early chapters explain what the "balance of terror" and how it came about. They suggest that there seems no practical alternative to it in the foreseeable future. Later chapters deal with the politics and stability of this balance. The two final chapters discuss policies that determine the balance of terror -- supplemented with figures and factual information...
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From the Publisher: Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons are still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. Indeed, for all the effort to reduce nuclear stockpiles to zero and to keep other nations (such as Iran) from developing nuclear capability, it seems that the Bomb is here to stay. In this gripping Very Short Introduction, Joseph M. Siracusa, an internationally respected authority on...
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The first book of its kind to provide a global perspective of the arms race, this two-volume work connects episodes worldwide involving nuclear weapons in a comprehensive, narrative fashion. Beginning with a discussion of the scientific research of the 1930s and 1940s and the Hiroshima decision, the authors focus on five basic themes: political dimensions, technological developments, military and diplomatic strategies, and impact. The history of the...
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"Professor, Sir Joseph Rotblat was a distinguished scientist who made a significant contribution to nuclear physics, worked on the development of the atomic bomb (he was the only scientist to leave the Manhattan Project), and was suspected of being a Soviet spy. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki he became a peace campaigner and dedicated himself to the medical uses of nuclear physics and radiation. He took up the post of Professor of Physics (as applied...
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The author, a distinguished physicist and nuclear weapons developer, has participated at almost every stage of the development of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, their delivery systems, and the efforts at arms control. This book chronicles York's involvement, beginning with his work on the Hiroshima bomb and ending with his service as Jimmy Carter's negotiator at the Comprehensive Test Ban talks in Geneva. His odyssey from Hiroshima to Geneva has...
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