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Managing India's Nuclear Forces
Brookings Institution Press 2012; US$ 59.95India is now enmeshed in the deterrence game?actively with its traditional adversary Pakistan, and potentially with China. At the same time it is finding easier access to fissile materials and strategic technologies. In order to deal with these developments safely and wisely, the nation needs a much more sophisticated and multidisciplinary understanding... more...
A Perpetual Menace
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 42.95Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines ?the problem of order? arising from the existence of weapons of mass destruction. This central problem of international order has its origins in the nineteenth century, when industrialization and the emergence of new sciences, technologies... more...
Prevention, Pre-emption and the Nuclear Option
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 125.00Despite its portrayal as a bold departure, the Bush Doctrine was not the "new" or "revolutionary" policy instrument that many at the time portended. This work seeks to argue that while it was clear that the Bush Doctrine certainly qualified as a preventive war policy, it is apparent that the adoption of this strategy did not mark a total break with... more...
Security Assurances and Nuclear Nonproliferation
Stanford University Press 2012; US$ 50.00While policy makers and scholars have long devoted considerable attention to strategies like deterrence, which threaten others with unacceptable consequences, such threat-based strategies are not always the best option. In some cases, a state may be better off seeking to give others a greater sense of security, rather than by holding their security... more...
NATO, Britain, France and the FRG
Palgrave Macmillan 1999; US$ 61.00Containing the histories (from 1945 to the present) of the nuclear strategies of NATO, Britain and France, and of the defence preferences of the FRG (West Germany), this book shows how strategies were functions of a perceived Soviet threat and an American 'nuclear guarantee'. There were three options for West Europeans: a compromise with differing... more...
Clausewitz and Escalation
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 188.00Published in 1991, Clausewitz and Escalation is a valuable contribution to the field of Military & Strategic Studies. more...
US Presidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946-1967
Texas A&M University Press 2012; US$ 40.00In the clash of ideologies represented by the Cold War, even the heavens were not immune to militarization. Satellites and space programs became critical elements among the national security objectives of both the United States and the Soviet Union. According to US Presidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946?1967 , three American presidents... more...
Britain's Strategic Nuclear Deterrent
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 46.95Having served opposite Warsaw Pact forces in the 1950s and on Embassy duty in the 70s in Europe, the author offers a reasoned assessment of Britain's role in the so-called "nuclear club". He asks whether Britain really needs to be a member. more...
Nuclear Superiority
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 32.95In 2002 the Bush administration completed a Nuclear Posture Review that introduced a ?new triad? based on offensive-strike systems, defences and a revitalized defence infrastructure. The new triad is designed for a new strategic threat environment, characterized not by a long-standing nuclear rivalry with another superpower, but by unstable relationships... more...
Day of Two Suns
The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 1998; US$ 11.99Between 1946 and 1958, the United States conducted some 66 nuclear bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. Day of Two Suns is a shocking and timely study of the story of a displaced people contaminated by nuclear fallout, forcibly resettled as their own islands become uninhabitable, and reduced to lives of poverty, ill-health, and dependence. It is also... more...









