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Author: Ward Wilson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547858175
Size: 27.51 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2013-01-15
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. “Brilliant, original, and important—the best analysis yet of why nuclear weapons don’t work.” —Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Nuclear weapons have always been a serious but seemingly insoluble problem: while they’re obviously dangerous, they are also, apparently, necessary. This groundbreaking study shows why five central arguments promoting nuclear weapons are, in essence, myths. It clears up such common misconceptions as . . . • Nuclear weapons necessarily shock and awe opponents, including Japan at the end of World War II • Nuclear deterrence is reliable in a crisis • Destruction wins wars • The bomb has kept the peace for sixty-five years • We can’t put the nuclear genie back in the bottle Drawing on new information and the latest historical research, Wilson poses a fundamental challenge to the myths on which nuclear weapons policy is currently built. Using pragmatic arguments and an unemotional, clear-eyed insistence on the truth, he arrives at a surprising conclusion: nuclear weapons are enormously dangerous, but don’t appear to be terribly useful. In that case, he asks, why would we want to keep them? This book will be widely read and discussed by everyone who cares about war, peace, foreign policy, and security in the twenty-first century. “Magisterial in its sweep, research, and erudition, yet written in a direct, unstuffy style, which makes it an easy read.” —Commander Robert D. Green, Royal Navy (ret.) “This slim, persuasively argued, tightly written book provides much food for thought and could make some readers radically change their perceptions about nuclear weapons.” —Booklist

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Book Detail:
Author: George Perkovich
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520232105
Size: 66.84 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2001
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF India S Nuclear Bomb eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Publisher Fact Sheet The definitive history of India's long flirtation with nuclear capability, culminating in the nuclear tests that surprised the world in May 1998.

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Author: Alexander Kmentt
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000393488
Size: 53.42 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2021-05-18
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book chronicles the genesis of the negotiations that led to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which challenged the established nuclear order. The work provides readers with an authoritative account of the complex evolution of the ‘Humanitarian Initiative’ (HI) and the negotiation history of the TPNW. It includes a close analysis of internal strategy documents and communications in the author’s possession which trace the tactical and political decisions of a small group of state actors. By demonstrating the unacceptable humanitarian consequences and uncontrollable risks that these weapons pose to everyone’s security, the HI convinced many states to ban nuclear weapons and reject the policy of nuclear deterrence as unsustainable and illegitimate. As such, this book is a case-study of multilateral diplomacy and cooperation between state and civil society actors. It also contains a full discussion of both sides of the nuclear argument and assesses the extent to which the HI and the TPNW have moved the dial and present opportunities for transformational change. This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation, diplomacy, global governance, and International Relations in general.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kristen Iversen
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307955656
Size: 75.31 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2013-06-04
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF Full Body Burden eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. “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.

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Book Detail:
Author: Keir A. Lieber
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501749307
Size: 58.84 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2020-06-15
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Myth Of The Nuclear Revolution eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Leading analysts have predicted for decades that nuclear weapons would help pacify international politics. The core notion is that countries protected by these fearsome weapons can stop competing so intensely with their adversaries: they can end their arms races, scale back their alliances, and stop jockeying for strategic territory. But rarely have theory and practice been so opposed. Why do international relations in the nuclear age remain so competitive? Indeed, why are today's major geopolitical rivalries intensifying? In The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution, Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press tackle the central puzzle of the nuclear age: the persistence of intense geopolitical competition in the shadow of nuclear weapons. They explain why the Cold War superpowers raced so feverishly against each other; why the creation of "mutual assured destruction" does not ensure peace; and why the rapid technological changes of the 21st century will weaken deterrence in critical hotspots around the world. By explaining how the nuclear revolution falls short, Lieber and Press discover answers to the most pressing questions about deterrence in the coming decades: how much capability is required for a reliable nuclear deterrent, how conventional conflicts may become nuclear wars, and how great care is required now to prevent new technology from ushering in an age of nuclear instability.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ashley J. Tellis
Publisher: Rand Corporation
ISBN: 9780833027818
Size: 55.87 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2001
Category: Deterrence (Strategy).
Language: en
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Download PDF India S Emerging Nuclear Posture eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "This book brings together the many pieces of India's nuclear puzzle and the ramifications for South Asia. The author examines the choices facing India from New Delhi's point of view in order to discern which future courses of action appear most appealing to Indian security managers. He details how such choices, if acted upon, would affect U.S. strategic interests, India's neighbors, and the world."--BOOK JACKET.

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Book Detail:
Author: Daniel Ellsberg
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608196747
Size: 53.22 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2017-12-05
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Doomsday Machine eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for The California Book Award in Nonfiction The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year List Foreign Affairs Best Books of the Year In These Times “Best Books of the Year" Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December Books List LitHub's “Five Books Making News This Week” From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day. Here, for the first time, former high-level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the remotest air bases in the Pacific Command, where he discovered that the authority to initiate use of nuclear weapons was widely delegated, to the secret plans for general nuclear war under Eisenhower, which, if executed, would cause the near-extinction of humanity, Ellsberg shows that the legacy of this most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization--and its proposed renewal under the Trump administration--threatens our very survival. No other insider with high-level access has written so candidly of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, and nothing has fundamentally changed since that era. Framed as a memoir--a chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges participating--this gripping exposé reads like a thriller and offers feasible steps we can take to dismantle the existing "doomsday machine" and avoid nuclear catastrophe, returning Ellsberg to his role as whistle-blower. The Doomsday Machine is thus a real-life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful--and powerfully important--book about not just our country, but the future of the world.

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Book Detail:
Author: David Dunbar
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN: 9781588166357
Size: 44.51 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2006
Category: Conspiracies
Language: en
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Download PDF Debunking 9 11 Myths eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Analyzes and refutes twenty of the most predominant theories involving the United States government's role in perpetrating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

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Book Detail:
Author: Gregg Herken
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400859603
Size: 52.36 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2014-07-14
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Winning Weapon eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book makes clear how, and why, after World War II American diplomats tried to make the atom bomb a winning weapon," an absolute advantage in negotiations with the Soviet Union. But this policy failed utterly in the 1948 Berlin crisis, and at home the State Department opposed those scientists who advocated international cooperation on nuclear matters. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ward Wilson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 054785787X
Size: 47.98 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2013
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. An argument against the necessity of nuclear weapons challenges common beliefs that they overcome opposition, provide deterrence, and maintain peace, drawing on historical research to consider how the world could be peaceful without nuclear weaponry.

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Book Detail:
Author: Herbert Feis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400868262
Size: 43.83 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2015-03-08
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Atomic Bomb And The End Of World War Ii eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This book discusses the decision to use the atomic bomb. Libraries and scholars will find it a necessary adjunct to their other studies by Pulitzer-Prize author Herbert Feis on World War II. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Book Detail:
Author: Dennis Ross
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101081872
Size: 49.23 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2009-06-11
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Myths Illusions And Peace eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "A trenchant and often pugnacious demolition of the numerous misconceptions about strategic thinking on the Middle East" -The New York Times Now updated with a new chapter on the current climate, Myths, Illusions, and Peace addresses why the United States has consistently failed to achieve its strategic goals in the Middle East. According to Dennis Ross-special advisor to President Obama and senior director at the National Security Council for that region-and policy analyst David Makovsky, it is because we have repeatedly fallen prey to dangerous myths about this part of the world-myths with roots that reach back decades yet persist today. Clearly articulated and accessible, Myths, Illusions, and Peace captures the real­ity of the problems in the Middle East like no book has before. It presents a concise and far-reaching set of principles that will help America set an effective course of action in the region, and in so doing secure a safer future for all Americans.

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Book Detail:
Author: Thomas Reed
Publisher: Zenith Press
ISBN: 1616732423
Size: 49.29 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2010-11-10
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Nuclear Express eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. This is a political history of nuclear weapons from the discovery of fission in 1938 to the nuclear train wreck that seems to loom in our future. It is an account of where those weapons came from, how the technology surprisingly and covertly spread, and who is likely to acquire those weapons next and most importantly why. The authors’ examination of post Cold War national and geopolitical issues regarding nuclear proliferation and the effects of Chinese sponsorship of the Pakistani program is eye opening. The reckless “nuclear weapons programs for sale” exporting of technology by Pakistan is truly chilling, as is the on-again off-again North Korean nuclear weapons program.

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Book Detail:
Author: Allan S. Krass
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100020054X
Size: 32.20 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2020-11-20
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Uranium Enrichment And Nuclear Weapon Proliferation eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Originally published in 1983, this book presents both the technical and political information necessary to evaluate the emerging threat to world security posed by recent advances in uranium enrichment technology. Uranium enrichment has played a relatively quiet but important role in the history of efforts by a number of nations to acquire nuclear weapons and by a number of others to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. For many years the uranium enrichment industry was dominated by a single method, gaseous diffusion, which was technically complex, extremely capital-intensive, and highly inefficient in its use of energy. As long as this remained true, only the richest and most technically advanced nations could afford to pursue the enrichment route to weapon acquisition. But during the 1970s this situation changed dramatically. Several new and far more accessible enrichment techniques were developed, stimulated largely by the anticipation of a rapidly growing demand for enrichment services by the world-wide nuclear power industry. This proliferation of new techniques, coupled with the subsequent contraction of the commercial market for enriched uranium, has created a situation in which uranium enrichment technology might well become the most important contributor to further nuclear weapon proliferation. Some of the issues addressed in this book are: A technical analysis of the most important enrichment techniques in a form that is relevant to analysis of proliferation risks; A detailed projection of the world demand for uranium enrichment services; A summary and critique of present institutional non-proliferation arrangements in the world enrichment industry, and An identification of the states most likely to pursue the enrichment route to acquisition of nuclear weapons.

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Book Detail:
Author: Keir A. Lieber
Publisher: Cornell Studies in Security Af
ISBN: 9781501749292
Size: 64.86 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2020
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Myth Of The Nuclear Revolution eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "Explains the intensity of international competition in the nuclear age and the main deterrence challenges of the twenty-first century"--

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Book Detail:
Author: Thomas M. Nichols
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190469412
Size: 76.42 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2017
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Death Of Expertise eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A cult of anti-expertise sentiment has coincided with anti-intellectualism, resulting in massively viral yet poorly informed debates ranging from the anti-vaccination movement to attacks on GMOs. As Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise, there are a number of reasons why this has occurred-ranging from easy access to Internet search engines to a customer satisfaction model within higher education.

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Book Detail:
Author: Cresson H. Kearny
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1510702059
Size: 21.64 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2016-01-19
Category: Medical
Language: en
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Download PDF Nuclear War Survival Skills eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A field-tested guide to surviving a nuclear attack, written by a revered civil defense expert. This edition of Cresson H. Kearny’s iconic Nuclear War Survival Skills (originally published in 1979), updated by Kearny himself in 1987 and again in 2001, offers expert advice for ensuring your family’s safety should the worst come to pass. Chock-full of practical instructions and preventative measures, Nuclear War Survival Skills is based on years of meticulous scientific research conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Featuring a new introduction by ex-Navy SEAL Don Mann, this book also includes: instructions for six different fallout shelters, myths and facts about the dangers of nuclear weapons, tips for maintaining an adequate food and water supply, a foreword by “the father of the hydrogen bomb,” physicist Dr. Edward Teller, and an “About the Author” note by Eugene P. Wigner, physicist and Nobel Laureate. Written at a time when global tensions were at their peak, Nuclear War Survival Skills remains relevant in the dangerous age in which we now live.

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Book Detail:
Author: Todd S. Sechser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110710694X
Size: 34.26 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2017-02-02
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Nuclear Weapons And Coercive Diplomacy eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy? This book argues that they are useful for deterrence but not for offensive purposes.

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Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688012973
Size: 45.15 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1982-08
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF Hiroshima No Pika eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. August 6, 1945, 8:15 a.m. Hiroshima. Japan A little girl and her parents are eating breakfast, and then it happened. HIROSHIMA NO PIKA. This book is dedicated to the fervent hope the Flash will never happen again, anywhere.

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Book Detail:
Author: John Gaddis
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191522333
Size: 63.19 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 1999-04-01
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Cold War Statesmen Confront The Bomb eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb: Nuclear Diplomacy Since 1945 is a path-breaking work that uses biographical techniques to test one of the most important and widely debated questions in international politics: Did the advent of the nuclear bomb prevent the Third World War? Many scholars and much conventional wisdom assumes that nuclear deterrence has prevented major power war since the end of the Second World War; this remains a principal tenet of US strategic policy today. Others challenge this assumption, and argue that major war would have been `obsolete' even without the bomb. This book tests these propositions by examining the careers of ten leading Cold War statesmen—Harry S Truman; John Foster Dulles; Dwight D. Eisenhower; John F. Kennedy; Josef Stalin; Nikita Krushchev; Mao Zedong; Winston Churchill; Charles De Gaulle; and Konrad Adenauer—and asking whether they viewed war, and its acceptability, differently after the advent of the bomb. The book's authors argue almost unanimously that nuclear weapons did have a significant effect on the thinking of these leading statesmen of the nuclear age, but a dissenting epilogue from John Mueller challenges this thesis.

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