Nuclear Warfare

During his impeachment proceedings, Richard Nixon boasted, "I can go into my office and pick up the telephone and in twenty-five minutes seventy million people will be dead." Nixon was accurately describing not only his own power but also the...

How was it put together? Who decides what targets to hit and why? When and where would it be put into action? Using recently declassified documents and interviews with government officials and military planners, the authors have pieced together an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061537202Author Stephen M YoungerFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 227g

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war.It could start in as little as 26 minutes and 40 seconds from now…An edge-of-your-seat non-fiction thriller for readers of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788187966708Author Manpreet SethiFormat HardbackPage Count 430Imprint Knowledge World InternationalPublisher Knowledge World International

This timely volume brings together essays by well-known scholars associated with Indian and American foreign policies and Indo-US relations on a significant theme of India's civil nuclear cooperation with the USA in particular and the world in general...

This is a very British story from more than 50 years ago. It is a story of remarkable technological ambition from a different country than is seen today. It was an era in which the country adjusted to decolonisation and a dangerous nuclear arms race...

The nine nuclear weapon states are extending their commitments to nuclear 'deterrence' well into the second half of this century, despite treaty obligations and an 'unequivocal undertaking' to disarm. The us alone is expecting to spend up to $1 trillion...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639361816Author Martin SixsmithFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Since the nuclear genie was let out of the bottle, nuclear weapons have been the exclusive domain of a select few countries. At the dawn of the millennium, however, the notion that small countries and even individuals may acquire and use them, or...

From the dawn of the atomic age to today, nuclear weapons have been central to the internal dynamics of US alliances in Europe and Asia. But nuclear weapons cooperation in US alliances has varied significantly between allies and over time. This book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247519Author Ken CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833042323Author David A. OchmanekFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 136g

Political Fallout is the story of one of the first human-driven, truly global environmental crises-radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing during the Cold War-and the international response. Beginning in 1945, the United States, Britain, and the...

Part I discusses the creation of the Commissariat a I'Energie Atomique and outlines its structure and function. Part II focuses on the development of military atomic policy. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest...

The Bush Administration conducted a review of US nuclear weapons force posture during its first year in office. Although the review sought to adjust US nuclear posture to address changes in the international security environment at the start of the new...

Between 1946 and 1958, the U.S. conducted some 66 nuclear bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. In 1959, this scattering of coral atolls was again chosen as the testing site for a new generation of weapons-long-range missiles fired in the U.S. Then in 1984...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247298Author Ken CoatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247489Author George FarebrotherFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksWeight(grams) 148g

A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legacies On August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The city's destruction stands as a powerful symbol...

Part I discusses the creation of the Commissariat a I'Energie Atomique and outlines its structure and function. Part II focuses on the development of military atomic policy. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest...

This book of selections from the distinguished journal International Security speaks to the most important question of our age: the deterrence of nuclear war. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788187966838Author Manpreet SethiFormat HardbackPage Count 179Imprint Knowledge World InternationalPublisher Knowledge World International

Because of the immense military power they can confer, the political control of nuclear weapons has been a key issue for as long as they have existed; in most countries the use of nuclear force can only be authorised by the head of government or head of...

This book highlights the role of nuclear weapons in 21st century U.S. policy. The world has changed a great deal in the last decade and a half. The Cold War stand-off with the Soviet Union is over, and Russia is no longer an ideological adversary. The...

Very few countries in the world can be considered economically on the move forward but India, as well as China, is one of them. This book presents a country profile, several issue papers including those dealing with nuclear issues and a chronology of...

The United States is concurrently pursuing the goals of reducing the size of its nuclear weapons force -- strategic and non-strategic, deployed and non-deployed -- and of modernising the weapons it continues to possess. Many of the existing systems were...

Even though the United States plans to reduce the number of warheads deployed on its long-range missiles and bombers, consistent with the terms of the New START Treaty, it also plans to develop new delivery systems for deployment over the next 20-30...

Why does Iranian acquisition of ballistic missiles or Iran's pursuit of a space launch capability matter, especially to the Congress? For decades, most in Congress have viewed Iran with concern because of its nuclear program and its support of anti-U.S...

This book presents and reviews the current nuclear ambitions and issues of several Middle Eastern countries such as: Iran, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates and India. This book provides background information on the nuclear programs of these countries,...

This book analyzes both domestic and international factors that have influenced Iran's foreign policy since 1979. It looks not only at the perspectives of the ruling elite, but also of civil society and opposition groups. Furthermore, it also analyzes...

The balance of power in South Asia is tenuous. Neighbouring states with nuclear arsenal pose a serious threat in times of conflict and the danger of escalation into a nuclear holocaust in South are ever-present.This book locates the change in India`s war...

The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August of 1945 unleashed a force as mysterious as it was deadly - radioactivity. In 1946, the United States government created the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) to serve as a permanent agency...

Cryptic Concrete explores bunkered sites in Cold War Germany in order to understand the inner workings of the Cold War state. A scholarly work that suggests a reassessment of the history of geo- and bio-politics Attempts to understand the material...

Nuclear tests in India and Pakistan brought the threat of nuclear war back to the world's centre stage. The tests and nuclear moves have raised regional tension, increased poverty in already impoverished nations, and could possibly have fuelled an arms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933909356Author James J. HeapheyFormat HardbackPage Count 297Imprint History Publishing Company llcPublisher History Publishing Company llcWeight(grams)...

After the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945, Albert Einstein warned that 'we thus drift towards unparalleled catastrophe'. Today we are no longer drifting but racing toward catastrophe at breakneck speed. This book analyses recent events that have...

This book explores how anti-nuclear social movements impact the state's civil nuclear policy and its implementation by presenting a historical-comparative case study of anti-nuclear movements in India. Drawing on social movement theory and empirical...

From Truman to Trump, US administrations have regarded allies as important in supporting America's nuclear posture worldwide. This book explores the history of nuclear weapons cooperation between the US and its allies in Europe and Asia and puts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062980175Author Max HastingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...