Arms Control

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...

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...

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...

First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorVarious authors who are experts in their fieldsBook InformationISBN 9780415498432Author VARIOUS AUTHORSFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint...

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...

The history of Pakistan's nuclear program is the history of Pakistan. Fascinated with the new nuclear science, the young nation's leaders launched a nuclear energy program in 1956 and consciously interwove nuclear developments into the broader narrative...

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...

This book provides an overview of how the UK tried to maintain and modernize its strategic and tactical nuclear weapons during 1974-82, whilst also pursuing a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. The core question addressed in the book is how a test...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190265687Author David KilcullenFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 163mm * 33mm

In Unending Crisis, Thomas Graham Jr. examines the second Bush administration's misguided management of foreign policy, the legacy of which has been seven major--and almost irresolvable--national security crises involving North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan,...

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.About the AuthorVarious authors who are experts in their fieldsBook InformationISBN 9781138458789Author VARIOUS AUTHORSFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635578485Author Ioan GrilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 420g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817948429Author Sidney D. DrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817944728Author Sidney D. DrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838216041Author Raluca RaduFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonPublisher ibidem-Verlag, Jessica...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815704539Author Bates GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 228mm...

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 Publishing

The Strategic Survey is a journal of records that includes all relevant names and titles, chronologies and dates. But it is also much more: the hard facts are embossed in considered and nuanced analysis over 300 pages of text. The Strategic Survey opens...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815713111Author Ashton B. CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)...

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative analysis.The book formulates a theory of nuclear socio-political economy...

This book examines President Reagan's and his administration's efforts to mobilize public and congressional support for seven of the president's controversial foreign policy initiatives. Each chapter deals with a distinct foreign policy issue, but they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815713654Author George BunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804712224Author Coit D. BlackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838213491Author Margaret BeissingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonPublisher ibidem-Verlag,...

Iraq is rapidly descending into all-out civil war. Unfortunately, the United States probably will not be able to just walk away from the chaos. Even setting aside the humanitarian nightmare that will ensue, a full-scale civil war would likely consume...

In 1960, President Kennedy warned of a dangerous future, rife with nuclear-armed states and a widespread penchant for conflict by the end of the century. Thankfully, his prediction failed to pass; in fact, roughly three times as many countries have since...

One of the 'inventors' of the nuclear bomb, Sir Joseph Rotblat very soon turned away from weapons research to make a prolonged and principled stand against the dangers of nuclear proliferation. A physicist of great brilliance, he metamorphosed into a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815739616Author Charles GlaserFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm)...

Controversy over the Iranian nuclear policy has been mounting in both legal and political circles since the early 2000s. Most recently, the IAEA, tasked with verifying compliance of Member States with the NPT, has been expressing concern that Iran's...

The postwar period saw increased interest in the idea of relatively easy-to-manufacture but devastatingly lethal radiological munitions whose use would not discriminate between civilian and military targets. Death Dust explores the largely unknown...