Nuclear Weapons

This Open Access volume assembles experts from the United States and India to examine six issues essential to the safety and security of nuclear fa...

In 1960, SACs B-52s began a nonstop, eight-year, nuclear-armed patrol. Fully illustrated, this study explains how one of the Cold Wars most challen...

'a master class in eyewitness storytelling . . . this gripping narrative chronicles one of history's darkest nightmare moments' - Annie Jacobsen, a...

'a master class in eyewitness storytelling . . . this gripping narrative chronicles one of history's darkest nightmare moments' - Annie Jacobsen, a...

Orford Ness was so secret a place that most people have never even heard of it. The role it played in inventing and testing weapons over the course...

A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES AND VANITY FAIR New York Times bestselling author Lesley Blume reveals how a courageous reporter uncovere...

After the outbreak of the wars in Ukraine and Palestine, CBRNe threats are sadly back in the news. This book, based on the first-hand experience of...

The March 11, 2011, Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami sparked a humanitarian disaster in northeastern Japan. They were responsible for more t...

The book is a comprehensive study of India's relationship with the non-proliferation regime, and its transformative evolution from a perennial outl...

One of the key issues facing naval strategists and planners is whether China poses a threat. The editors of this hot-topic book - professors and an...

How can countries verify compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) and detect and deter violations?  It is in their interest...

With the concept of 'Atomic Anxiety', this book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important and longstanding puzzles of international p...

The nuclear age is coming to the Middle East. Understanding the scope and motivations for this development and its implications for global security...

The young dictator comes under close scrutiny in this intelligent account Sunday Times When Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea in 2011, ...

The Oxford Handbook of Nuclear Security provides a comprehensive examination of efforts to secure sensitive nuclear assets and mitigate the risk of...

October 1962, The Cuban Missile Crisis: the confrontation that brought the world closer to nuclear catastrophe than ever before or since. Drawing ...

Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitler's regime? How did they justify themselves afterwards? Exam...

Does state acquisition of nuclear weapons lead to stability and peace or instability and crises? This is one of the great debates in international ...

This book discusses the decision to use the atomic bomb. Libraries and scholars will find it a necessary adjunct to their other studies by Pulitzer...

Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio towns restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyardIn 1984, a uranium leak at Ohios outdated Fernald ...

Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio towns restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyardIn 1984, a uranium leak at Ohios outdated Fernald ...

Are nuclear arsenals safe from cyber-attack? Could terrorists launch a nuclear weapon through hacking? Are we standing at the edge of a major techn...

India's nuclear profile, doctrine, and practices have evolved rapidly since the countrys nuclear breakout in 1998. However, the outside world's und...

J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversa...