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Big Red
Argo-Navis 2013; US$ 9.99Taller in length than the Washington Monument, wider at its center than a three-lane highway, the 18,750-ton Trident nuclear submarine is the most complex war machine the United States Navy has ever produced: a $1.8 billion marvel crammed with more modern military technology than any other vessel in the world. Deep beneath the ocean it can sail for... more...
Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 44.95Explores the way in which the main combatant societies of the Second World War have historicised that experience. Bosworth argues that the traumatic history of the war has remained crucial to the politics of post-war societies. more...
Nuclear Terrorism
Palgrave Macmillan 1999; US$ 155.00Will the twenty-first century see terrorist fingers on the nuclear trigger? How likely is it terrorists will obtain weapons of mass destruction? What factors would determine their decision to use them? Gavin Cameron assesses the causes for, and implications of, the escalating lethality of terrorism. The growing opportunities for nuclear proliferation,... more...
The British Nuclear Weapons Programme, 1952-2002
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 55.95The first British nuclear weapon test took place in Australia in October 1952. British nuclear weapons have been a source of controversy ever since. In this book, scientists, doctors, researchers and others assess the military value, political impact, health effects and legality of the programme. more...
Future Roles of U.S. Nuclear Forces
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95Since the end of the Cold War, the United States has been re-examining its basic assumptions about foreign policy and instruments of national security polcy. This study examines the possible roles of nuclear weapons in contemporary US national security policy. more...
Nuclear Weapons and Strategy
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 44.95Nuclear weapons, once thought to have been marginalized by the end of the Cold War, have returned with a vengeance to the centre of US security concerns and to a world bereft of the old certainties of deterrence. This is a major analysis of these new strategic realities. The George W. Bush administration, having deposed the regime of Saddam... more...
India's Emerging Nuclear Posture
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95After a hiatus of almost 24 years, India startled the international community by resuming nuclear testing in May 1998. This work addresses the belief that nuclear tests in South Asia have altered the strategic environment in the region and globally. more...
First Into Nagasaki
Crown Publishing Group 2006; US$ 14.95George Weller was a Pulitzer Prize?winning reporter who covered World War II across Europe, Africa, and Asia. At the war?s end in September 1945, under General MacArthur?s media blackout, correspondents were forbidden to enter both Nagasaki and Hiroshima. But instead of obediently staying with the press corps in northern Japan, Weller broke away. The... more...
The US Government, Citizen Groups and the Cold War
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 49.95This new book examines the construction, activities and impact of the network of US state and private groups in the Cold War. By moving beyond state-dominated, ?top-down? interpretations of international relations and exploring instead the engagement and mobilization of whole societies and cultures, it presents a radical new approach to the... more...
Arsenals of Folly
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.95Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War. In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the... more...









