Nuclear Weapons

The untold story of the hitherto secret projects that lead to the development of inertial navigation in the UK, and the many missiles that were des...

The nine nuclear weapon states are extending their commitments to nuclear deterrence well into the second half of this century, despite treaty obli...

This Atom Bomb in Me traces what it felt like to grow up suffused with American nuclear culture in and around the atomic city of Oak Ridge, Tenness...

These are frightening times for us all: Sarin nerve gas being sprayed on innocent civilians in Syria, threats that biological warfare agents might ...

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

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

In the early 1950s the United States wished to concentrate its defence resources on the development of a 4,000 mile range intercontinental ballisti...

1945 onwards (strategic and tactical delivery systems), Much misinformation has been published by those who support, as well as those who are again...

On 6 August and 8 August 1945, the world changed forever with the release of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. In January 1947, ...

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...

The UK is one of nine states possessing nuclear weapons. Renewal of the Trident programme would extend Britains commitment to so-called nuclear det...

Edward Kaplan's To Kill Nations is a fascinating work that packs a thermonuclear punch of ideas and arguments... The work is suitable for anyone fr...

Churchill's Bomb - from the author of the Costa award-winning biography The Strangest Man - reveals a new aspect of Winston Churchill's life, so fa...

In the spring of 1945 the Allies arrested the physicists they believed had worked on the German nuclear programme during the war. Interned in an En...