Arms Negotiation & Control

A critical overview of American efforts to prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons, from the 1950s to the present Steven Hurst traces the develo...

In 2017, North Korea shocked the world: test-flying a missile capable of reaching the US, exploding the most powerful nuclear device tested anywher...

In its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government g...

Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War, and the advent of the hydrog...

While policy makers and scholars have long devoted considerable attention to strategies like deterrence, which threaten others with unacceptable co...

A primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured destruction, the SALT treaties, and the Bomb i...

We are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, and issues ranging ...

On September 27, 2007, Quinnipiac University and the Albert Schweitzer Institute hosted former US President Jimmy Carter and several internationall...

The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat of nuclear weapons - a luxury that we can no longer i...

In the twenty-five years after 1989 the world enjoyed the deepest peace in its history. The Rise and Fall of Peace on Earth examines that singular ...

It is estimated that today some 2.7% of world GDP ($1.5 trillion) is spent on arms. In 2014 Lockheed Martin, the US defence contractor, had revenue...

This book provides an introduction to political and strategic aspects of nuclear weaponry. It offers an accessible overview of the concept of nucle...

During his impeachment proceedings, Richard Nixon boasted, I can go into my office and pick up the telephone and in twenty-five minutes seventy mil...

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, todays world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, an...

This encyclopedia presents important research on Turkey. Some of the topics discussed herein include the prospects and challenges involved in Turke...

We are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, and issues ranging ...