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A Perpetual Menace

Author : William Walker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136594639
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book A Perpetual Menace written by William Walker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written 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 and administrative capabilities greatly expanded states’ abilities to inflict injury, ushering in the era of total war. It became acute in the mid-twentieth century, with the invention of the atomic bomb and the pre-eminent role ascribed to nuclear weapons during the Cold War. It became more complex after the end of the Cold War, as power structures shifted, new insecurities emerged, prior ordering strategies were called into question, and as technologies relevant to weapons of mass destruction became more accessible to non-state actors as well as states. William Walker explores how this problem is conceived by influential actors, how they have tried to fashion solutions in the face of many predicaments, and why those solutions have been deemed effective and ineffective, legitimate and illegitimate, in various times and contexts.

No Use

Author : Thomas M. Nichols
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812245660
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book No Use written by Thomas M. Nichols and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama has gradually reduced the size of America's nuclear forces. Yet even now, over two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States maintains a huge nuclear arsenal on high alert and ready for war. The Americans, like the Russians, the Chinese, and other major nuclear powers, continue to retain a deep faith in the political and military value of nuclear force, and this belief remains enshrined at the center of U.S. defense policy regardless of the radical changes that have taken place in international politics. In No Use, national security scholar Thomas M. Nichols offers a lucid, accessible reexamination of the role of nuclear weapons and their prominence in U.S. security strategy. Nichols explains why strategies built for the Cold War have survived into the twenty-first century, and he illustrates how America's nearly unshakable belief in the utility of nuclear arms has hindered U.S. and international attempts to slow the nuclear programs of volatile regimes in North Korea and Iran. From a solid historical foundation, Nichols makes the compelling argument that to end the danger of worldwide nuclear holocaust, the United States must take the lead in abandoning unrealistic threats of nuclear force and then create a new and more stable approach to deterrence for the twenty-first century.

Unmaking the Bomb

Author : Harold A. Feiveson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262529726
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Unmaking the Bomb written by Harold A. Feiveson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new approach to nuclear disarmament, nonproliferation, and the prevention of nuclear terrorism that focuses on controlling the production and stockpiling of nuclear materials. Achieving nuclear disarmament, stopping nuclear proliferation, and preventing nuclear terrorism are among the most critical challenges facing the world today. Unmaking the Bomb proposes a new approach to reaching these long-held goals. Rather than considering them as separate issues, the authors—physicists and experts on nuclear security—argue that all three of these goals can be understood and realized together if we focus on the production, stockpiling, and disposal of plutonium and highly enriched uranium—the fissile materials that are the key ingredients used to make nuclear weapons. The authors describe the history, production, national stockpiles, and current military and civilian uses of plutonium and highly enriched uranium, and propose policies aimed at reducing and eventually eliminating these fissile materials worldwide. These include an end to the production of highly enriched uranium and plutonium for weapons, an end to their use as reactor fuels, and the verified elimination of all national stockpiles.

Find, Fix, Finish

Author : Aki Peritz
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1610392388
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Find, Fix, Finish written by Aki Peritz and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two intelligence experts with unique access to inside sources reveal the fascinating story behind the evolution of AmericaÕs new, effective approach to counterterrorism

Washington Rules

Author : Andrew J. Bacevich
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
ISBN 13 : 1429943262
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Washington Rules written by Andrew J. Bacevich and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of The Limits of Power critically examines the Washington consensus on national security and why it must change For the last half century, as administrations have come and gone, the fundamental assumptions about America's military policy have remained unchanged: American security requires the United States (and us alone) to maintain a permanent armed presence around the globe, to prepare our forces for military operations in far-flung regions, and to be ready to intervene anywhere at any time. In the Obama era, just as in the Bush years, these beliefs remain unquestioned gospel. In Washington Rules, a vivid, incisive analysis, Andrew J. Bacevich succinctly presents the origins of this consensus, forged at a moment when American power was at its height. He exposes the preconceptions, biases, and habits that underlie our pervasive faith in military might, especially the notion that overwhelming superiority will oblige others to accommodate America's needs and desires—whether for cheap oil, cheap credit, or cheap consumer goods. And he challenges the usefulness of our militarism as it has become both unaffordable and increasingly dangerous. Though our politicians deny it, American global might is faltering. This is the moment, Bacevich argues, to reconsider the principles which shape American policy in the world—to acknowledge that fixing Afghanistan should not take precedence over fixing Detroit. Replacing this Washington consensus is crucial to America's future, and may yet offer the key to the country's salvation.

Nice Weather

Author : Frederick Seidel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466879777
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Nice Weather written by Frederick Seidel and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning new collection from the "beguiling and magisterial" poet (The New York Times Book Review) "Something is going on. Something is wrong." Frederick Seidel-the "ghoul" (Chicago Review), the "triumphant outsider" (Contemporary Poetry Review)-returns with a dangerous new collection of poems. Nice Weather presents the sexual and political themes that have long preoccupied Seidel-and thrilled and offended his readers. Lyrical, grotesque, elegiac, this book adds new music and menace to his masterful body of work.

Oppenheimer Is Watching Me

Author : Jeff Porter
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587297507
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Oppenheimer Is Watching Me written by Jeff Porter and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he discovers that his father worked on missiles for a defense contractor, Jeff Porter is inspired to revisit America’s atomic past and our fallen heroes, in particular J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. The result, Oppenheimer Is Watching Me, takes readers back to the cold war, when men in lab coats toyed with the properties of matter and fears of national security troubled our sleep. With an eye for strange symmetries, Porter traces how one panicky moment shaped the lives of a generation.

Never-Ending War on Terror

Author : Alex Lubin
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520297407
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Never-Ending War on Terror written by Alex Lubin and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entire generation of young adults has never known an America without the War on Terror. This book contends with the pervasive effects of post-9/11 policy and myth-making in every corner of American life. Never-Ending War on Terror is organized around five keywords that have come to define the cultural and political moment: homeland, security, privacy, torture, and drone. Alex Lubin synthesizes nearly two decades of United States war-making against terrorism by asking how the War on Terror has changed American politics and society, and how the War on Terror draws on historical myths about American national and imperial identity. From the PATRIOT Act to the hit show Homeland, from Edward Snowden to Guantanamo Bay, and from 9/11 memorials to Trumpism, this succinct book connects America's political economy and international relations to our contemporary culture at every turn.

This Changes Everything

Author : Naomi Klein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451697384
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book This Changes Everything written by Naomi Klein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why the environmental crisis should lead to an abandonment of "free market" ideologies and current political systems, arguing that a massive reduction of greenhouse emissions may offer a best chance for correcting problems.

Scourge

Author : Jonathan B. Tucker
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802139399
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Scourge written by Jonathan B. Tucker and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of one of the world's deadliest diseases traces the influence of the smallpox plague on the course of human civilization, describes Jenner's creation of a vaccine against it and the World Health Organization's global efforts to eradicate it, and examines the dangers it still poses today as

Uncharted Waters

Author : Malcolm Chalmers
Publisher : John Donald
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Uncharted Waters written by Malcolm Chalmers and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2001 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive text presents a study of the nuclear deterrent from a Scottish persepctive. The presence of nuclear weapons in Scotland has always been controversial north of the border, not least because no specific Scottish consent has been given for their deployment there.

A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations

Author : Christopher R. W. Dietrich
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119459699
Total Pages : 1518 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations written by Christopher R. W. Dietrich and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 1518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the entire range of the history of U.S. foreign relations from the colonial period to the beginning of the 21st century. A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations is an authoritative guide to past and present scholarship on the history of American diplomacy and foreign relations from its seventeenth century origins to the modern day. This two-volume reference work presents a collection of historiographical essays by prominent scholars. The essays explore three centuries of America’s global interactions and the ways U.S. foreign policies have been analyzed and interpreted over time. Scholars offer fresh perspectives on the history of U.S. foreign relations; analyze the causes, influences, and consequences of major foreign policy decisions; and address contemporary debates surrounding the practice of American power. The Companion covers a wide variety of methodologies, integrating political, military, economic, social and cultural history to explore the ideas and events that shaped U.S. diplomacy and foreign relations and continue to influence national identity. The essays discuss topics such as the links between U.S. foreign relations and the study of ideology, race, gender, and religion; Native American history, expansion, and imperialism; industrialization and modernization; domestic and international politics; and the United States’ role in decolonization, globalization, and the Cold War. A comprehensive approach to understanding the history, influences, and drivers of U.S. foreign relation, this indispensable resource: Examines significant foreign policy events and their subsequent interpretations Places key figures and policies in their historical, national, and international contexts Provides background on recent and current debates in U.S. foreign policy Explores the historiography and primary sources for each topic Covers the development of diverse themes and methodologies in histories of U.S. foreign policy Offering scholars, teachers, and students unmatched chronological breadth and analytical depth, A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations: Colonial Era to the Present is an important contribution to scholarship on the history of America’s interactions with the world.

Fever Claim

Author : Marie Johnston
Publisher : Marie Johnston
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fever Claim written by Marie Johnston and published by Marie Johnston. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can he turn one night into forever? After being ditched only weeks before her wedding, Cassie Stockwell wasn’t out looking for a hookup. Then the devastatingly handsome bartender she’d been trying not to obsess over for months offered to give her a ride home. What could one night hurt? When his future was almost taken away after one impulsive decision, wolf-shifter and ex-con Jace Miller waited patiently for months before making a move on the woman he knew to be his destined mate. But will one night of passion keep his little human by his side once she learns of his world and the danger it brings to her doorstep? Fever Claim kicks off a thrilling wolf shifter world as a FREE book one in the paranormal romance series Sigma Menace. For readers who also like Larissa Ione, T.S. Joyce, Zoe Chant, Charlene Hartnady, and Milly Taiden, Alisa Woods, JK Harper, Felicity Heaton, Celia Kyle, Marina Maddix, Lorelei Moone, Callista Ball, Layla Nash, AJ Tipton, Christina Phillips, LG Castillo, Mac Flynn, Alisa Woods, JR Ward, Gena Showalter, Kresley Cole, May Sage, Brenda K Davies, Lee Savino, Renee Rose, Vivian Arend, Amelia Shaw, Ines Johnson, NJ Walters, Krystal Shannon, Grace Goodwin, and Eve Langlais. Paranormal romance, paranormal romance series, enemies to lovers, bodyguard, paranormal, paranormal romance books for adults, immortals, immortal romance, fantasy romance, alpha hero, strong heroine, action, adventure, no cliffhangers, guaranteed HEA, happily ever after, action romance, steamy shifter romance, wolf shifter romance, shape shifters, shifter, shapeshifter, fated mates, happy ending, happily ever after, HEA, sexy times, werewolf romance series, shapeshifter romance series, love at first sight, fate, true love, first in series free, series starter, top ebooks in romance, top ebooks in paranormal.

Inventing the Feeble Mind

Author : James Trent
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199396205
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Inventing the Feeble Mind written by James Trent and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pity, disgust, fear, cure, and prevention--all are words that Americans have used to make sense of what today we call intellectual disability. Inventing the Feeble Mind explores the history of this disability from its several identifications over the past 200 years: idiocy, imbecility, feeblemindedness, mental defect, mental deficiency, mental retardation, and most recently intellectual disability. Using institutional records, private correspondence, personal memories, and rare photographs, James Trent argues that the economic vulnerability of intellectually disabled people (and often their families), more than the claims made for their intellectual and social limitations, has shaped meaning, services, and policies in United States history.

The Two Koreas

Author : Don Oberdorfer
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
ISBN 13 : 0465031234
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Two Koreas written by Don Oberdorfer and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Korea was first divided at the end of World War II, the tension between its northern and southern halves has riveted—and threatened to embroil—the rest of the world. In this landmark history, now thoroughly revised and updated in conjunction with Korea expert Robert Carlin, veteran journalist Don Oberdorfer grippingly describes how a historically homogenous people became locked in a perpetual struggle for supremacy—and how they might yet be reconciled.

China and Global Nuclear Order

Author : Nicola Horsburgh
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191016306
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book China and Global Nuclear Order written by Nicola Horsburgh and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 security. For the United States, there is no other nuclear actor — with the exception of Russia— that matters more to its long-term national security. However, China's behaviour and impact on global nuclear politics is a surprisingly under-researched topic. Existing literature tends to focus on narrow policy issues, such as misdemeanours in China's non-proliferation record, the uncertain direction of its military spending, and nuclear force modernization, or enduring opaqueness in its nuclear policy. This book proposes an alternative context to understand both China's past and present nuclear behaviour: its engagement with the process of creating and maintaining global nuclear order. The concept of global nuclear order is an innovative lens through which to consider China as a nuclear weapons state because it draws attention to the inner workings —institutional and normative— that underpin nuclear politics. It is also a timely subject because global nuclear order is considered by many actors to be under serious strain and in need of reform. Indeed, today the challenges to nuclear order are numerous, from Iranian and North Korean nuclear ambitions to the growing threat of nuclear terrorism. This book considers these challenges from a Chinese perspective, exploring how far Beijing has gone to the aid of nuclear order in addressing these issues.

Blood and Iron

Author : Katja Hoyer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643138383
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Blood and Iron written by Katja Hoyer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vivid fifty-year history of Germany from 1871-1918—which inspired events that forever changed the European continent—here is the story of the Second Reich from its violent beginnings and rise to power to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. Before 1871, Germany was not yet nation but simply an idea. Its founder, Otto von Bismarck, had a formidable task at hand. How would he bring thirty-nine individual states under the yoke of a single Kaiser? How would he convince proud Prussians, Bavarians, and Rhinelanders to become Germans? Once united, could the young European nation wield enough power to rival the empires of Britain and France—all without destroying itself in the process? In this unique study of five decades that changed the course of modern history, Katja Hoyer tells the story of the German Empire from its violent beginnings to its calamitous defeat in the First World War. This often startling narrative is a dramatic tale of national self-discovery, social upheaval, and realpolitik that ended, as it started, in blood and iron.