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Author : Vladimir Minkov
Publisher : DeVolpi, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0977773418
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (777 download)
Download or read book Nuclear Shadowboxing written by Vladimir Minkov and published by DeVolpi, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander DeVolpi
Publisher : DeVolpi, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 097777340X
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (777 download)
Download or read book Nuclear Shadowboxing: Contemporary Threats from Cold War Weaponry; Volume 1: Cold War Redux written by Alexander DeVolpi and published by DeVolpi, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kristen Iversen
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307955656
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Full Body Burden written by Kristen Iversen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An intimate and deeply human memoir that shows why we should all be concerned about nuclear safety, and the dangers of ignoring science in the name of national security.”—Rebecca Skloot, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks A shocking account of the government’s attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic waste released by a secret nuclear weapons plant in Colorado and a community’s vain search for justice—soon to be a feature documentary Kristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." Full Body Burden is the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and--unknown to those who lived there--tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets--both family and government. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what was made at Rocky Flats--best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions and discovered some disturbing realities. Based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully written book is both captivating and unnerving.
Author : Richard K. Betts
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815717083
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance written by Richard K. Betts and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In numerous crises after World War II—Berlin, Korea, the Taiwan Straits, and the Middle East—the United States resorted to vague threats to use nuclear weapons in order to deter Soviet or Chinese military action. On a few occasions the Soviet Union also engaged in nuclear saber-ratling. Using declassified documents and other sources, this volume examines those crises and compares the decisionmaking processes of leaders who considered nuclear threats with the commonly accepted logic of nuclear deterrence and coercion. Rejecting standard explanations of our leader's logic in these cases, Betts suggests that U.S. presidents were neither consciously blufffing when they made nuclear threats, nor prepared to face the consequences if their threats failed. The author also challenges the myth that the 1950s was a golden age of low vulberability for the United Stateas and details how nuclear parity has, and has not, altered conditions that gave rise to nuclear blackmail in the past.
Author : David Hafemeister
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319253670
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)
Download or read book Nuclear Proliferation and Terrorism in the Post-9/11 World written by David Hafemeister and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fills a clear gap in the literature for a technically-focused book covering nuclear proliferation and related issues post-9/11. Using a concept-led approach which serves a broad readership, it provides detailed overview of nuclear weapons, nuclear proliferation and international nuclear policy. The author addresses topics including offensive and defensive missile systems, command and control, verification, weapon effects, and nuclear testing. A chronology of nuclear arms is presented including detailed discussion of the Cold War, proliferation, and arms control treaties. The book is tailored to courses on nuclear proliferation, and the general reader will also find it a fascinating introduction to the science and strategy behind international nuclear policy in the modern era.
Author : Richard Rhodes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307387410
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Twilight of the Bombs written by Richard Rhodes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final volume in Richard Rhodes's prizewinning history of nuclear weapons offers the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in the post-Cold War age. The past twenty years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically. With extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding, Richard Rhodes makes clear how the five original nuclear powers--Russia, Great Britain, France, China, and especially the United States--have struggled with new realities. He reveals the real reasons George W. Bush chose to fight a second war in Iraq, assesses the emerging threat of nuclear terrorism, and offers advice on how our complicated relationships with North Korea and South Asia should evolve. Finally, he imagines what a post-nuclear world might look like, as only he can.
Author : Alvin Z. Rubinstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691228035
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Moscow's Third World Strategy written by Alvin Z. Rubinstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, Moscow's Third World Strategy, will be forthcoming.
Author : Benjamin Frankel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135068216
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Realism written by Benjamin Frankel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Realism has been the subject of critical scrutiny for some time and this examination aims to identify and define its strengths and shortcomings, making a contribution to the study of international relations.
Author : Barry Scott Zellen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313392684
Total Pages : 1411 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Realist Tradition in International Relations written by Barry Scott Zellen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 1411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive foundation for the study of realism will introduce students in disciplines as varied as philosophy, international relations, and strategic studies to the majestic breadth of the realist tradition that unifies them all. The Realist Tradition in International Relations: The Foundations of Western Order introduces the principal theorists who have shaped and defined the realist tradition. This once-dominant theory of international politics has reemerged to provide a shared foundation for understanding political theory, international relations theory, and strategic studies. The work is comprised of four volumes, each focusing upon a distinct period and the pivotal contributors writing in that era. Volume 1, State of Hope, looks at the classical era when chaos reigned supreme. Volume 2, State of Fear, goes through the early-modern period and the emergence of the modern state. Volume 3, State of Awe, explores the age of total war with its unprecedented dangers. Volume 4, State of Siege, examines the present era of insurgency and asymmetrical conflict. A truly monumental work, this sweeping study will surely foster a new appreciation of the rich tapestry of realist thought and its continuing relevance to the study of world politics.
Author : Benjamin Miller
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472088720
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (887 download)
Download or read book When Opponents Cooperate written by Benjamin Miller and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multilevel theory of international relations that accounts for intended and unintended outcomes of cooperation and conflict
Author : George W. Breslauer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131741876X
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Soviet Strategy in the Middle East written by George W. Breslauer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few regions of the world are as politically turbulent as the Middle East, and nowhere is the potential for superpower conflict greater. How does the Soviet Union view the Middle east conflict? Can the USSR play a constructive role in the peace process? In this volume, first published in 1990, these questions and others central to an understanding of Soviet strategy in the region are addressed. Previous analysts of Soviet-Middle Eastern relations have tended to emphasize either the cooperative or the competitive aspects of Soviet behaviour. Breslauer instead offers the multidimensional concept of ‘collaborative competition’ to describe the mixed motives, ambivalence, and sometimes conflicting perspectives that have informed Soviet strategy in the region. In such an unstable environment. this strategy of collaborative competition has in turn encouraged ‘approach-avoidance’ behaviour; for example, while the Soviets may seek to moderate their radical allies, they remain fearful that these allies, once moderated, might defect to US patronage. Under Gorbachev, the Kremlin continues to pursue this same strategy but with increased attention to improving collaboration, redefining the nature of the competition, and easing the approach-avoidance dilemma. Breslauer argues that these changes could lead to more flexible Soviet behaviour in the region. This volume combines new, in-depth research on Soviet policy with new interpretations, including insights drawn from relevant theories of international relations.
Author : John Wilson Lewis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804728041
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)
Download or read book China's Strategic Seapower written by John Wilson Lewis and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using major new documentary sources, the authors tell the story of why and how China built its nuclear submarine flotilla and the impact of that development on the nation's politics, technology, industry, and strategy.
Author : Vijay N. Shankar
Publisher : One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9381836809
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (818 download)
Download or read book Shadow Boxing with the Gods written by Vijay N. Shankar and published by One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old order changeth Yielding Place to new Lest one good custom Should corrupt the world Alfred, Lord Tennyson SHADOW BOXING WITH THE GODS is a tour through many traditions and beliefs in the history of Man, to arrive at the truths we recognize today. It is a book of aggressive but persistently rational thought, which deconstructs the beliefs and theologies that have accompanied mankind from the earliest times and often controlled human destinies. While many of these beliefs help people to find meaning to the great mystery of life, they nevertheless crave to be understood in the context of our modern environment. Based on the core truth that the greatest ideas, if carried to extremes, can become ridiculous and hurt people, the book traces the diverse strands of human belief in various civilizations, starting with fantasy and myth-making. Ideas about life, divinity, nature and community, have enriched existence but have also caused mayhem and tyranny through blind beliefs that fed fundamentalism and terror. The Nazi holocaust, the burning of witches and heretics at the stake, the indignity of widowhood and caste practices in India, were all the result of beliefs that overpowered the minds of large sections of people. Today, more than ever before, we are equipped with science, reason and information, to embrace the spiritual and the humane, while freeing ourselves from the clutches of superstition and ignorance – thus achieving a far deeper understanding about our individual and collective existence.
Author : Anthony H. Cordesman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100023018X
Total Pages : 1043 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Gulf And The Search For Strategic Stability written by Anthony H. Cordesman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 1043 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an extensive military and strategic analysis of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, assessing the regional military balance, the internal security and stability of each Gulf nation, the evolution of each nation's forces from 1969 into 1983, and the impact of defense spending and Western and Soviet-bloc arms sales in the region. Comprehensive statistics are provided on arms transfers to each country since 1969 and on the forces each nation is capable of deploying in the Gulf.
Author : John Boyko
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0345808959
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Cold Fire written by John Boyko and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget all you think you know about the Kennedy years. With narrative flair and sparkling storytelling, acclaimed historian John Boyko explores the crucial period when America and its allies were fighting the Cold War's most treacherous battles, Canadians were trading sovereignty for security, and everyone feared a nuclear holocaust. At the centre of this story are three leaders. President John F. Kennedy pledged to pay any price to advance his vision for America's defence and needed Canada to step smartly in line. Fighting him at every turn was Conservative prime minister John Diefenbaker, an unapologetic nationalist trying to bolster Canada's autonomy. Liberal leader Lester Pearson, the Nobel Prize-winning diplomat, sought a middle ground. Boyko employs meticulous research and newly released documents to present shocking revelations. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Canadian warships guarded America's Atlantic coast and Canada suffered a silent coup d'état. Canada was involved in Kennedy's sliding America into Vietnam. Kennedy knew the nuclear missiles he was forcing on Canada would be decoys, there only to draw Soviet nuclear fire. Kennedy's pollster and political adviser travelled to Ottawa under a fake passport to help defeat the Canadian government. And, perhaps most startlingly, if not for Diefenbaker, Kennedy may have survived the bullets in Dallas.
Author : Roland Dannreuther
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349262161
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book The Soviet Union and the PLO written by Roland Dannreuther and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Soviet Union and the PLO provides a comprehensive account of Soviet-PLO relations from the formation of the PLO in 1964 to the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 199. By analysing in detail the complex and often turbulent evolution of the Soviet-PLO relationship, the book also provides critical insights into Soviet policy making towards the Arab-Israeli conflict and the various strategies Moscow adopted to attain its strategic and ideological interests in the region.
Author : Glen Scott Allen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429928654
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Shadow War written by Glen Scott Allen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant new talent delivers a sweeping thriller that turns the entire history of America upside down. Colonial historian Benjamin Wainwright is summoned to a secretive think tank in western Massachusetts by an old school friend who researches war-game theory. Upon his arrival, Wainwright discovers that his friend is dead and suspected of having leaked information. When the security analyst hired to investigate the case is targeted for assassination, Benjamin wonders: Was his friend's death an accident—or murder? A series of codes, forged documents, and secret family histories all point to the existence of a centuries-old conspiracy. Benjamin teams up with a beautiful Russian cultural attaché named Natalya Orlova, whose own family has a dark history with the KGB, to unravel the truth. The two set off on a dangerous mission that stretches from Washington, DC, to the French Riviera, to deep within the Siberian wilderness. Together, they discover the sinister forces that have pulled the strings of power in America—perhaps all the way back to its very founding. What our characters learn will make us question everything we thought we knew about American history, from the Revolution to the Cold War, and what lies in store for the fate of the nation. With a gripping pace and enigmatic plot that drives the reader from one page to the next, The Shadow War is a highly intelligent thriller that asks: Who really runs the country, who controls our enemies, and to what lengths will they go to conceal their hidden agendas?
