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Author : Trevor Findlay
Publisher : Brassey's (UK) Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Nuclear Dynamite written by Trevor Findlay and published by Brassey's (UK) Limited. This book was released on 1990 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graham Allison
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429945516
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Nuclear Terrorism written by Graham Allison and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-08-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading strategist opens our eyes to the greatest terrorist threat of all-and how to prevent it before it's too late Americans in the twenty-first century are keenly aware of the many forms of terrorism: hijackings, biological attacks, chemical weapons. But rarely do we allow ourselves to face squarely the deadliest form of terrorism, because it is almost too scary to think about-a terrorist group exploding a nuclear device in an American city. In this urgent call to action, Graham Allison, one of America's leading experts on nuclear weapons and national security, presents the evidence for two provocative, compelling conclusions. First, if policy makers in Washington keep doing what they are currently doing about the threat, a nuclear terrorist attack on America is likely to occur in the next decade. And if one lengthens the time frame, a nuclear strike is inevitable. Second, the surprising and largely unrecognized good news is that nuclear terrorism is, in fact, preventable. In these pages, Allison offers an ambitious but feasible blueprint for eliminating the possibility of nuclear terrorist attacks. The United States once relied on the threat of mutually assured destruction to deter the Soviet Union from launching a nuclear strike. But in today's fragmented world, a new strategy is needed, especially with nuclear material vulnerable to theft or sale through black-market channels. The choice is ours: to grab this beast by the horns or to be impaled on those horns. We do not have the luxury of hoping the problem will go away, and Allison shows why.
Author : Trevor Findlay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Swords Into Plowshares written by Trevor Findlay and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hudson Maxim
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Dynamite Stories and Some Interesting Facts about Explosives written by Hudson Maxim and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dynamite Stories and Some Interesting Facts about Explosives" by Hudson Maxim is an engaging and informative collection that delves into the fascinating world of explosives and their profound impact on history and technology. Maxim, a pioneering figure in the field of explosives, presents a captivating anthology of narratives and facts that span from the development of dynamite to its various applications. With a blend of storytelling and technical insight, Maxim explores explosive innovations, their roles in construction and demolition, and their historical significance in shaping industries and conflicts. This book not only appeals to enthusiasts of science and engineering but also captures the curiosity of a broader audience interested in the dynamic interplay between technology and society. "Dynamite Stories" is a riveting journey through the explosive landscape, offering readers a unique perspective on the powerful forces that have shaped the modern world.
Author : Stephen Bown
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
ISBN 13 : 0143006878
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)
Download or read book A Most Damnable Invention written by Stephen Bown and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of two brilliant but controversial men and their world-changing scientific discoveries. Humanity's desire to harness the destructive capacity of fire extends back to the dawn of civilization. But the true age of explosives began in the 1860s with Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's discovery of dynamite, which made possible industrial mega-projects such as the Panama Canal. Dynamite also caused great loss of life and environmental damage. With a troubled conscience, Nobel left his vast estate to the Nobel Prizes. As the use of explosives and fertilizers soared, nations scrambled for the vital ingredient: nitrates. The 'nitrogen problem' was solved by enigmatic German scientist Fritz Haber. His breakthrough not only prolonged the First World War, but led to the tripling of world population. When he was awarded a Nobel Prize, it sparked international condemnation. Deftly blending popular science, history and biography, A Most Damnable Invention is a vivid account of the incendiary substance that truly made our world.
Author : Howard G. Wilshire
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199881669
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The American West at Risk written by Howard G. Wilshire and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-05 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West at Risk summarizes the dominant human-generated environmental challenges in the 11 contiguous arid western United States - America's legendary, even mythical, frontier. When discovered by European explorers and later settlers, the west boasted rich soils, bountiful fisheries, immense, dense forests, sparkling streams, untapped ore deposits, and oil bonanzas. It now faces depletion of many of these resources, and potentially serious threats to its few "renewable" resources. The importance of this story is that preserving lands has a central role for protecting air and water quality, and water supplies--and all support a healthy living environment. The idea that all life on earth is connected in a great chain of being, and that all life is connected to the physical earth in many obvious and subtle ways, is not some new-age fad, it is scientifically demonstrable. An understanding of earth processes, and the significance of their biological connections, is critical in shaping societal values so that national land use policies will conserve the earth and avoid the worst impacts of natural processes. These connections inevitably lead science into the murkier realms of political controversy and bureaucratic stasis. Most of the chapters in The American West at Risk focus on a human land use or activity that depletes resources and degrades environmental integrity of this resource-rich, but tender and slow-to-heal, western U.S. The activities include forest clearing for many purposes; farming and grazing; mining for aggregate, metals, and other materials; energy extraction and use; military training and weapons manufacturing and testing; road and utility transmission corridors; recreation; urbanization; and disposing of the wastes generated by everything that we do. We focus on how our land-degrading activities are connected to natural earth processes, which act to accelerate and spread the damages we inflict on the land. Visit www.theamericanwestatrisk.com to learn more about the book and its authors.
Author : Vince M. LEWIS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549819070
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Atomic Bombs and Dynamite written by Vince M. LEWIS and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-24 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atomic Bombs and DynamiteThe Concise History Of Atomic Bombs Dynamite And Their Development.We can't live with them, we can't live without them...Atomic Bombs and explosives are perhaps the biggest singularity of our times and have been dominant for over seventy years.Atomic bombs were developed to end World War II and in a couple of ways, they did! Two of Japans cities were totally devastated in an atomic statement that sealed their fate. The world looked on with true shock and awe. The atomic age was here and was here to stay and has hung like a huge black shadow over the world ever since.But what makes an Atomic Bomb tick? Who devised it and what were their ambitions? How did the Russians develop an Atomic Bomb at almost the same time?Explosives are lethal substances that are responsible for millions of deaths but who invented these explosives? Where is all this power of annihilation leading us, is there a bomb to end all bombs?Supplementary sections have a look at Semtex and the history of Dora, Hitler's massive railway cannon. Great war machine or a waste of space?
Author : Or Rabinowitz
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191007439
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bargaining on Nuclear Tests written by Or Rabinowitz and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most observers who follow nuclear history agree on one major aspect regarding Israel's famous policy of nuclear ambiguity; mainly that it is an exception. More specifically, it is largely accepted that the 1969 Nixon-Meir understanding, which formally established Israel's policy of nuclear ambiguity and transformed it from an undeclared Israeli strategy into a long-lasting undisclosed bilateral agreement, was in fact a singularity, aimed at allowing Washington to turn a blind eye to the existence of an Israeli arsenal. According to conventional wisdom, this nuclear bargain was a foreign policy exception on behalf of Washington, an exception which reflected a relationship growing closer and warmer between the superpower leading the free world and its small Cold War associate. Contrary to the orthodox narrative, this research demonstrates that this was not the case. The 1969 bargain was not, in fact, an exception, but rather the first of three Cold War era deals on nuclear tests brokered by Washington with its Cold War associates, the other two being Pakistan and South Africa. These two deals are not well known and until now were discussed and explored in the literature in a very limited fashion. Bargaining on Nuclear Tests places the role of nuclear tests by American associates, as well as Washington's attempts to prevent and delay them, at the heart of a new nuclear history narrative.
Download or read book Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book TID written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Sanders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Project Plowshare written by Ralph Sanders and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Rhodes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439126224
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Making of the Atomic Bomb written by Richard Rhodes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award** The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb. This sweeping account begins in the 19th century, with the discovery of nuclear fission, and continues to World War Two and the Americans’ race to beat Hitler’s Nazis. That competition launched the Manhattan Project and the nearly overnight construction of a vast military-industrial complex that culminated in the fateful dropping of the first bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Reading like a character-driven suspense novel, the book introduces the players in this saga of physics, politics, and human psychology—from FDR and Einstein to the visionary scientists who pioneered quantum theory and the application of thermonuclear fission, including Planck, Szilard, Bohr, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Teller, Meitner, von Neumann, and Lawrence. From nuclear power’s earliest foreshadowing in the work of H.G. Wells to the bright glare of Trinity at Alamogordo and the arms race of the Cold War, this dread invention forever changed the course of human history, and The Making of The Atomic Bomb provides a panoramic backdrop for that story. Richard Rhodes’s ability to craft compelling biographical portraits is matched only by his rigorous scholarship. Told in rich human, political, and scientific detail that any reader can follow, The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a thought-provoking and masterful work.
Author : Scott Kaufman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465834
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Project Plowshare written by Scott Kaufman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-20 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" speech, scientists at the Atomic Energy Commission and the University of California's Radiation Laboratory began in 1957 a program they called Plowshare. Joined by like-minded government officials, scientists, and business leaders, champions of "peaceful nuclear explosions" maintained that they could create new elements and isotopes for general use, build storage facilities for water or fuel, mine ores, increase oil and natural gas production, generate heat for power production, and construct roads, harbors, and canals. By harnessing the power of the atom for nonmilitary purposes, Plowshare backers expected to protect American security, defend U.S. legitimacy and prestige, and ensure access to energy resources. Scott Kaufman's extensive research in nearly two dozen archives in three nations shows how science, politics, and environmentalism converged to shape the lasting conflict over the use of nuclear technology. Indeed, despite technological and strategic promise, Plowshare's early champions soon found themselves facing a vocal and powerful coalition of federal and state officials, scientists, industrialists, environmentalists, and average citizens. Skeptical politicians, domestic and international pressure to stop nuclear testing, and a lack of government funding severely restricted the program. By the mid-1970s, Plowshare was, in the words of one government official, "dead as a doornail." However, the thought of using the atom for peaceful purposes remains alive.
Author : Stephan Frühling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317177169
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Australia's Uranium Trade written by Stephan Frühling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's Uranium Trade explores why the export of uranium remains a highly controversial issue in Australia and how this affects Australia's engagement with the strategic, regime and market realms of international nuclear affairs. The book focuses on the key challenges facing Australian policy makers in a twenty-first century context where civilian nuclear energy consumption is expanding significantly while at the same time the international nuclear nonproliferation regime is subject to increasing, and unprecedented, pressures. By focusing on Australia as a prominent case study, the book is concerned with how a traditionally strong supporter of the international nuclear nonproliferation regime is attempting to recalibrate its interest in maximizing the economic and diplomatic benefits of increased uranium exports during a period of flux in the strategic, regime and market realms of nuclear affairs. Australia's Uranium Trade provides broader lessons for how - indeed whether - nuclear suppliers worldwide are adapting to the changing nuclear environment internationally.
Author : Bruce Larkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351522604
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Designing Denuclearization written by Bruce Larkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work canvasses nuclear weapon abolition, proposals placed on the table since 1945 and the obstacles and issues which a realistic program for abolition confronts today. It has an ambitious purpose, to show that nuclear abolition can and should be placed on the public agenda.a The author terms it interpretive in that it incorporates his commentaries, never hiding his reasons and judgments. It is neither "just the facts" nor "all the facts." It is an encyclopedia in the original meaning of "a general course of instruction." He identifies himself with all who pursue the problem posed by nuclear weapons systematically and with seriousness of purpose, committed to self-instruction. In another sense, he writes, this work is a conversation with the Reader. What is needed to abolish nuclear weapons? His starting-point is this: As long as nuclear weapons are stockpiled and deployed there is risk of their use, which would be catastrophic. Abolition, however, is inconceivable in the absence of a developed and articulated alternative to the nuclear status quo. Even with that, the politics of abolition, bringing the governments of the nuclear weapon states to believe that abolition is in their interest, is the sine qua non of achieving a world free of nuclear weapons. Larkin's text is written for those, whether practitioners or citizens, interested in designing and bringing about denuclearization. Abolition cannot be achieved by political elites in the absence of broad concurrent public support. Governments, career policy officials and legislators have chosen to assume responsibility for the public agenda. They may be askedimust be asked,what they will do to bring about denuclearization.
Author : Joseph Camilleri
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085793080X
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)
Download or read book Worlds in Transition written by Joseph Camilleri and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living through a unique moment of transition, marked by a frenetic cycle of invention, construction, consumption and destruction. However, there is more to this transition than globalization, argue the authors of this unique and penetrating study. In their highly innovative approach, they set this transition against a broader evolutionary canvas, with the emphasis on the evolution of governance. The book's detailed analysis of five strategic sectors (economy, environment, health, information and security) points to an intricate and rapidly evolving interplay of geopolitical, cultural an.
Author : David Kaiser
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262112888
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Pedagogy and the Practice of Science written by David Kaiser and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies examining the ways in which the training of engineers and scientists shapes their research strategies and scientific identities.
