Arms Negotiation & Control

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 ...

The liberal world order, a euphemism for American global hegemony, is crumbling at an accelerating pace. While its collapse is tangible, the outcom...

Policymakers worry that ungoverned spaces pose dangers to security and development. Why do such spaces exist beyond the authority of the state? Ear...

Arms control and nonproliferation efforts are two of the tools that have occasionally been used to implement U.S. national security strategy. Altho...

The Control Agenda is a sweeping account of the history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), their rise in the Nixon and Ford administrat...

This is an intense and meticulously sourced study on the topic of nuclear weapons proliferation, beginning with America's introduction of the Atomi...

Do alliances curb efforts by states to develop nuclear weapons? Atomic Assurance looks at what makes alliances sufficiently credible to prevent nuc...

The arms race, on the run up to the Second World War, followed the faultless logic of paranoia. Before the First World War, the Great Powers measur...

Apocalypse Never illuminates why we must abolish nuclear weapons, how we can, and what the world will look like after we do. The twenty-first centu...