Arms Control

Conventional Arms Control provides an analysis of the political and operational problems of verification of conventional arms control in Europe. It examines aspects of the verification of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) and...

When the hardcover of Atomic Iran was published in 2005, few could have anticipated that it would so accurately foretell events that have since taken place in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Many who once considered it partisan overkill now take its...

Drawn from presentations at the Hoover Institution's conference on the twentieth anniversary of the Reykjavik summit, this collection of essays examines the legacy of that historic meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. The contributors...

The Nuclear Dilemma in a Changing World.The War That Must Never Be Fought explores how nuclear deterrence should be understood seventy years after the first nuclear tests. These essays, edited by George P. Shultz and James E. Goodby, challenge outdated...

A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804724395Author Marc A. GenestFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 417g

This collection of studies is one of the most lucid and sober analyses of the dangers of nuclear war, which mankind is facing. Written by natural and social scientists, the book should be read both by statesmen and by the general public. Looking towards...

For thirteen years, since his resignation from the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission, Mr. Lilienthal has kept silent on the atom, turning his energies and talents to the field of international development. Now the first chairman of the AEC...

The SIPRI Yearbook is known worldwide as an authoritative and independent source of data and analysis for politicians, diplomats, journalists, scholars, students and citizens on armaments, disarmament and international security. It provides an overview...

The adaptation of the 1990 CFE Treaty and the Vienna Document 1994 of the Negotiations on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures were both completed by the November 1999 OSCE Istanbul summit meeting. In the new century, Europe will continue to...

Since World War II, technological arms competition has increasingly militarized international political relations. The reversal of this by arms control and disarmament agreements is largely dependent on the provision of well researched information about...

Nuclear forensics is the science of determining the history of a sample of radioactive material through the study of the material's characteristics. While nuclear forensic analysis has normally been associated with investigations and prosecutions in the...

The new dangers and challenges to international security in Europe after the Cold War are examined in this book. The changing nature of Europe's security problems has necessitated new thinking among both civilians and the military about arms control, the...

Governments have been negotiating about disarmament, or more limited forms of arms control, for forty years. Despite these negotiations, weapons of increasing deadliness and sophistication continue to be developed. Through the use of case studies of...

Is the arms trade totally uncontrolled? What are the main obstacles to limitations on arms transfers? What can be learned from past attempts at arms transfer control? This book, which completes SIPRI's trilogy on the facts and implications of Third World...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolution and development of arms control processes as an integral part of the Pakistan-India grand dialogue, which took place from 1988 to 2008 and it examines the larger political context and its impact...

This work examines the record of Confidence and Security-Building Measures (CSBMs) in Europe, as well as regional arms control efforts in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s. It contains material on military security endeavours of this type.Book...

The recent controversy over Iran's nuclear programme represents an early and important test for a distinctively European approach to addressing concerns about suspected programmes for the development of weapons of mass destruction. Against this...

Nuclear Weapons Counterproliferation: A New Grand Bargain proposes a new legal and institutional framework for counterproliferation of nuclear weapons. Its proposal is designed to remedy the widely acknowledged breakdown of the architecture of the...

This book examines an area of the world where nuclear arms control is almost non-existent - China, India and Pakistan - and takes the unusual approach of considering the implications of conventional arms transfers, and in particular India's strategic...

An examination of the issues in the current debate on the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, by an international team of auhors chosen for their expertise in the field.Book InformationISBN 9780198291190Author Walther StutzleFormat PaperbackPage Count...

First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415498432Author Various AuthorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 454g

This book offers a novel approach to understanding the puzzle of nuclear proliferation by examining how leaders' beliefs and perceptions about the international system influence states' decisions to acquire nuclear weapons. Today, there is a persisting...

This book offers an empirically rich study of Chinese nuclear weapons behaviour and the impact of this behaviour on global nuclear politics since 1949. China's behaviour as a nuclear weapons state is a major determinant of global and regional...

First published in 1997, this volume builds its discussion on a technological base along with policy implications, and constitutes a review of the current situation in international security created by the Cold War, and how the end of the Cold War is...

Soon after nuclear weapons devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bernard Brodie and several colleagues wrote The Absolute Weapon, which predicted that the atomic bomb would revolutionize international politics. In TheAbsolute Weapon...

First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781138458789Author VARIOUS AUTHORSFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 630g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817949211Author George P. ShultzFormat HardbackPage Count 538Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

At their October 1986 meeting in Reykjavik, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev agreed on the need to eliminate nuclear weapons. That historic meeting ultimately led to the end of the cold war. "Since that time, the nature of the nuclear threat in...

The mortal danger of nuclear weapons is unique in its terrifying potential for devastation on an unprecedented and unimaginable scale. In this book, Sidney D. Drell and James E. Goodby-each with more than twenty years' experience in national security...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838216041Author Ioana ComanFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem Press

This book asks why, in the wake of the Cold War, Japan suddenly reversed years of steadfast opposition to security cooperation with its neighbors. Long isolated and opposed to multilateral agreements, Japan proposed East Asia's first multilateral...

This book examines the negotiations between the USA and the USSR on the limitation of strategic arms during the Cold War, from 1969 to 1979.The negotiations on the limitation of strategic arms, which were concluded in two agreements SALT I and SALT II...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815716853Author Ivo H. DaalderFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

The biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of Romanian Studies, jointly developed by The Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem Press, examines critical issues in Romanian studies, linking work in that field to wider theoretical debates and issues of current...

This volume features a selection of the best scholarship on international law as it is relevant to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The essays consider the nonproliferation legal regime as a normative system and offer a more discrete...

China's diplomatic strategy has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s, creating both challenges and opportunities for other world powers. Through a combination of pragmatic security policies, growing economic clout, and increasingly deft diplomacy,...

This book explores whether the new capabilities made possible by precision-strike technologies are reshaping approaches to international intervention. Since the end of the Cold War, US technological superiority has led to a more proactive and, some would...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921867644Author Billy GriffithsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 190g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815793878Author Joel S. WitFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm)...

This volume examines the conditions necessary for a stable nuclear-weapons-free world and the implications for nuclear disarmament policy.The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is a road map to nuclear zero, but it is a rudimentary one and it says...