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Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History

Author : Thomas Graham, Jr.
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295801565
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies that Changed History written by Thomas Graham, Jr. and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been said and written about the failure of U.S. intelligence to prevent the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and its overestimation of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction under Saddam Hussein. This book focuses instead on the central role that intelligence-collection systems play in promoting arms control and disarmament. Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. and Keith Hansen bring more than fifty combined years of experience to this discussion of the capabilities of technical systems, which are primarily based in space. Their history of the rapid advancement of surveillance technology is a window into a dramatic reconceptualization of Cold War strategies and policy planning. Graham and Hansen focus on the intelligence successes against Soviet strategic nuclear forces and the quality of the intelligence that has made possible accurate assessments of WMD programs in North Korea, Iran, and Libya. Their important insights shed a much-needed light on the process of verifying how the world harnesses the proliferation of nuclear arms and the continual drive for advancements in technology.

Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies That Changed History

Author : Thomas Graham
Publisher : Donald R. Ellegood Internation
ISBN 13 : 9780295997216
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Spy Satellites and Other Intelligence Technologies That Changed History written by Thomas Graham and published by Donald R. Ellegood Internation. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been said and written about the failure of U.S. intelligence to prevent the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and its overestimation of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction under Saddam Hussein. This book focuses instead on the central role that intelligence-collection systems play in promoting arms control and disarmament. Ambassador Thomas Graham Jr. and Keith Hansen bring more than fifty combined years of experience to this discussion of the capabilities of technical systems, which are primarily based in space. Their history of the rapid advancement of surveillance technology is a window into a dramatic reconceptualization of Cold War strategies and policy planning. Graham and Hansen focus on the intelligence successes against Soviet strategic nuclear forces and the quality of the intelligence that has made possible accurate assessments of WMD programs in North Korea, Iran, and Libya. Their important insights shed a much-needed light on the process of verifying how the world harnesses the proliferation of nuclear arms and the continual drive for advancements in technology.

The National Reconnaissance Office at 50 Years

Author : Bruce Berkowitz
Publisher : National Reconnaissance Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The National Reconnaissance Office at 50 Years written by Bruce Berkowitz and published by National Reconnaissance Office. This book was released on 2011 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of satellite reconnaissance

Author : Robert L. Perry
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9781937219031
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book History of satellite reconnaissance written by Robert L. Perry and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2012 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States developed the Gambit and Hexagon imagery satellite systems in the 1960's to improve the nation's means for peering over the iron curtain that separated western democracies from East European and Asian communist countries. The programs were declassified in September of 2011, after which redacted documents and histories were released to the public, including the two contained in this volume. --Summarized from Preface.

Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law

Author : Gabriel Schoenfeld
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393339939
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law written by Gabriel Schoenfeld and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intensely controversial scrutiny of American democracy's fundamental tension between the competing imperatives of security and openness.

Studies in Intelligence

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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The Cold War [5 volumes]

Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4179 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Cold War [5 volumes] written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 4179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping reference work covers every aspect of the Cold War, from its ignition in the ashes of World War II, through the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis, to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Cold War superpower face-off between the Soviet Union and the United States dominated international affairs in the second half of the 20th century and still reverberates around the world today. This comprehensive and insightful multivolume set provides authoritative entries on all aspects of this world-changing event, including wars, new military technologies, diplomatic initiatives, espionage activities, important individuals and organizations, economic developments, societal and cultural events, and more. This expansive coverage provides readers with the necessary context to understand the many facets of this complex conflict. The work begins with a preface and introduction and then offers illuminating introductory essays on the origins and course of the Cold War, which are followed by some 1,500 entries on key individuals, wars, battles, weapons systems, diplomacy, politics, economics, and art and culture. Each entry has cross-references and a list of books for further reading. The text includes more than 100 key primary source documents, a detailed chronology, a glossary, and a selective bibliography. Numerous illustrations and maps are inset throughout to provide additional context to the material.

Secret Intelligence

Author : Christopher Andrew
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415420237
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Secret Intelligence written by Christopher Andrew and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Reader in the field of intelligence studies focuses on policy, blending classic works on concepts and approaches with more recent essays dealing with current issues and the ongoing debate about the future of intelligence. The subject of secret intelligence has never enjoyed a higher profile. The terrorist attacks of 9/11, Madrid and London, the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the missing WMD, public debates over prisoner interrogation, and new domestic security regulations have all contributed to make this a ‘hot’ subject over the past decade. Aiming to be more comprehensive than existing books, and to achieve truly international coverage of the field, this book provides key readings and supporting material for students and course convenors. It is divided into four main sections, each of which includes full summaries of each article, further reading suggestions, and student questions: The intelligence cycle Intelligence, counter-terrorism and security Ethics, accountability and control Intelligence and the new warfare Comprising essays by leading scholars in the field, Secret Intelligence will be essential reading both for students and for anyone wishing to understand the current relationship between intelligence and policy-making.

Dark Skies

Author : Daniel Deudney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019090335X
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Dark Skies written by Daniel Deudney and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Space is again in the headlines. E-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are planning to colonize Mars. President Trump wants a "Space Force" to achieve "space dominance" with expensive high-tech weapons. The space and nuclear arms control regimes are threadbare and disintegrating. Would-be asteroid collision diverters, space solar energy collectors, asteroid miners, and space geo-engineers insistently promote their Earth-changing mega-projects. Given our many looming planetary catastrophes (from extreme climate change to runaway artificial superintelligence), looking beyond the earth for solutions might seem like a sound strategy for humanity. And indeed, bolstered by a global network of fervent space advocates-and seemingly rendered plausible, even inevitable, by oceans of science fiction and the wizardly of modern cinema-space beckons as a fully hopeful path for human survival and flourishing, a positive future in increasingly dark times. But despite even basic questions of feasibility, will these many space ventures really have desirable effects, as their advocates insist? In the first book to critically assess the major consequences of space activities from their origins in the 1940s to the present and beyond, Daniel Deudney argues in Dark Skies that the major result of the "Space Age" has been to increase the likelihood of global nuclear war, a fact conveniently obscured by the failure of recognize that nuclear-armed ballistic missiles are inherently space weapons. The most important practical finding of Space Age science, also rarely emphasized, is the discovery that we live on Oasis Earth, tiny and fragile, and teeming with astounding life, but surrounded by an utterly desolate and inhospitable wilderness stretching at least many trillions of miles in all directions. As he stresses, our focus must be on Earth and nowhere else. Looking to the future, Deudney provides compelling reasons why space colonization will produce new threats to human survival and not alleviate the existing ones. That is why, he argues, we should fully relinquish the quest. Mind-bending and profound, Dark Skies challenges virtually all received wisdom about the final frontier.

Preventing Catastrophe

Author : Thomas Graham
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804763607
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Preventing Catastrophe written by Thomas Graham and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the same time, they are able to make a complex subject understandable to non-technical experts, making this book a useful teaching tool, especially for those who have little or no knowledge or experience in US national security decision making."--BOOK JACKET.

The Eagle Has Eyes

Author : José Angel Gutiérrez
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628953500
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book The Eagle Has Eyes written by José Angel Gutiérrez and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2019-03-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first of its kind to bring transparency to the FBI’s attempts to destroy the incipient Chicano Movement of the 1960s. While the activities of the deep state are current research topics, this has not always been the case. The role of the U.S. government in suppressing marginalized racial and ethnic minorities began to be documented with the advent of the Freedom of Information Act and most recently by disclosures of whistle blowers. This book utilizes declassified files from the FBI to investigate the agency’s role in thwarting Cesar E. Chavez’s efforts to build a labor union for farm workers and documents the roles of the FBI, California state police, and local police in assisting those who opposed Chavez. Ultimately, The Eagle Has Eyes is a must-read for academics and activists alike.

Tug of War

Author : Jocelyn Wills
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773550496
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Tug of War written by Jocelyn Wills and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selling Earth observation satellites on their abilities to predict and limit adverse environmental change, politicians, business leaders, the media, and technology enthusiasts have spent sixty years arguing that space exploration can create a more peaceful, prosperous world. Capitalist states have also socialized the risk and privatized the profits of the commercial space industry by convincing taxpayers to fund surveillance technologies as necessary components of sovereignty, freedom, and democracy. Jocelyn Wills’s Tug of War reminds us that colonizing the cosmos has not only accelerated the arms race but also encouraged government contractors to compete for the military and commercial spoils of surveillance. Although Canadians prefer to celebrate their role as purveyors of peaceful space applications, Canada has played a pivotal part in the expansion of neoliberal policies and surveillance networks that now encircle the globe, primarily as a political ally of the United States and component supplier for its military-industrial complex. Tracing the forty-five-year history of Canada’s largest space company – MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) – through the lens of surveillance studies and a trove of oral history transcripts, government documents, trade journals, and other sources, Wills places capitalism’s imperial ambitions squarely at the centre of Canada-US relations and the privatization of the Canadian political economy. Tug of War confronts the mythic lure of technological progress and the ways in which those who profess little interest in war rationalize their leap into military contracting by avoiding the moral and political implications of their work.

Great Power Security Cooperation

Author : David W. Kearn
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739189441
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Great Power Security Cooperation written by David W. Kearn and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the conditions under which great powers are likely to cooperate to improve their security by engaging in qualitative arms control. In agreeing to limit or proscribe certain classes of weapons, states will constrain their military capabilities and therefore decrease the threat they pose to potential adversaries. Focusing on the expected military impact of technological change and the capacity of states to confidently monitor the activities of its negotiating partners, it may be possible to forge lasting agreements that improves the security of the participating states. However, at other times, the nature technological change may force states to engage in competitive behavior, precluding cooperation and increasing the probability of conflict. Examining a diverse set of cases, including the Washington Naval Conference, The World Disarmament Conference at Geneva, the Baruch Plan for the International Control of Atomic Energy, and the SALT I Accords (including the ABM Treaty), this volume presents a persuasive, comprehensive and interesting contribution to the literature on arms racing and arms control, and should be of interest to students of international relations theory and security studies. By presenting a theoretical-informed model that explicitly links the security strategies of states to their choices about development and deployment of new weapons and, consequently, their willingness to engage in arms control cooperation, this book provides an important refinement upon existing theoretical and historical approaches.

A Global History of the Nuclear Arms Race

Author : Richard Dean Burns
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 963 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book A Global History of the Nuclear Arms Race written by Richard Dean Burns and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 963 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by two preeminent authors in the field, this book provides an accessible global narrative of the nuclear arms race since 1945 that focuses on the roles of key scientists, military chiefs, and political leaders. The first book of its kind to provide a global perspective of the arms race, this two-volume work connects episodes worldwide involving nuclear weapons in a comprehensive, narrative fashion. Beginning with a discussion of the scientific research of the 1930s and 1940s and the Hiroshima decision, the authors focus on five basic themes: political dimensions, technological developments, military and diplomatic strategies, and impact. The history of the international nuclear arms race is examined within the context of four historical eras: America's nuclear monopoly, America's nuclear superiority, superpower parity, and the post-Cold War era. Information about the historical development of the independent deterrence of Britain, France, and China, as well as the piecemeal deterrence of newcomers Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea is also included, as is coverage of the efforts aimed at the international control of nuclear weapons and the diplomatic architecture that underpins the global nuclear non-proliferation regime.

Cold War

Author : Carole K. Fink
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429973705
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Cold War written by Carole K. Fink and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decades-long Cold War was more than a bipolar conflict between two Superpowers-it had implications for the entire world. In this accessible, comprehensive retelling, Carole K. Fink provides new insights and perspectives on key events with an emphasis on people, power, and ideas. Cold War goes beyond US-USSR relations to explore the Cold War from an international perspective, including developments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Fink also offers a broader time line of the Cold War than any other text, charting the lead-up to the conflict from the Russian Revolution to World War II and discussing the aftermath of the Cold War up to the present day. The second edition reflects the latest research and scholarship and offers additional information about the post-Cold War period, including the "new Cold War" with Russia. For today's students and history buffs, Cold War is the consummate book on this complex conflict.

Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons

Author : Ward Wilson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547858175
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons written by Ward Wilson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Brilliant, original, and important—the best analysis yet of why nuclear weapons don’t work.” —Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Nuclear weapons have always been a serious but seemingly insoluble problem: while they’re obviously dangerous, they are also, apparently, necessary. This groundbreaking study shows why five central arguments promoting nuclear weapons are, in essence, myths. It clears up such common misconceptions as . . . • Nuclear weapons necessarily shock and awe opponents, including Japan at the end of World War II • Nuclear deterrence is reliable in a crisis • Destruction wins wars • The bomb has kept the peace for sixty-five years • We can’t put the nuclear genie back in the bottle Drawing on new information and the latest historical research, Wilson poses a fundamental challenge to the myths on which nuclear weapons policy is currently built. Using pragmatic arguments and an unemotional, clear-eyed insistence on the truth, he arrives at a surprising conclusion: nuclear weapons are enormously dangerous, but don’t appear to be terribly useful. In that case, he asks, why would we want to keep them? This book will be widely read and discussed by everyone who cares about war, peace, foreign policy, and security in the twenty-first century. “Magisterial in its sweep, research, and erudition, yet written in a direct, unstuffy style, which makes it an easy read.” —Commander Robert D. Green, Royal Navy (ret.) “This slim, persuasively argued, tightly written book provides much food for thought and could make some readers radically change their perceptions about nuclear weapons.” —Booklist

Managing Cyber Attacks in International Law, Business, and Relations

Author : Scott J. Shackelford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107004373
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Managing Cyber Attacks in International Law, Business, and Relations written by Scott J. Shackelford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a novel framework to reconceptualize Internet governance and better manage cyber attacks. Specifically, it makes an original contribution by examining the potential of polycentric regulation to increase accountability through bottom-up action. It also provides a synthesis of the current state of cybersecurity research, bringing features of the cloak and dagger world of cyber attacks to light and comparing and contrasting the cyber threat to all relevant stakeholders. Throughout the book, cybersecurity is treated holistically, covering outstanding issues in law, science, economics, and politics. This interdisciplinary approach is an exemplar of how strategies from different disciplines as well as the private and public sectors may cross-pollinate to enhance cybersecurity. Case studies and examples illustrate what is at stake and identify best practices. The book discusses technical issues of Internet governance and cybersecurity while presenting the material in an informal, straightforward manner. The book is designed to inform readers about the interplay of Internet governance and cybersecurity and the potential of polycentric regulation to help foster cyber peace.