Nuclear Weapons

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hard hats, and an Ohio towns restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyardIn 1984, a uranium leak at Ohios outdated Fernald ...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hard hats, and an Ohio towns restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyardIn 1984, a uranium leak at Ohios outdated Fernald ...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

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

A multifaceted portrait of the Hiroshima bombing and its many legaciesOn August 6, 1945, in the waning days of World War II, the United States drop...

The Nuclear Club reveals how a coalition of powerful and developing states embraced global governance in hopes of a bright and peaceful tomorrow. W...

Though China remains a relatively weak nuclear power, it has in recent years become central to US strategic policymaking. What explains this shift?...

Does it make sense for the United States to cooperate with Russia to resolve international security issues? Is it possible for the two countries to...

Almost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves from an invisible e...

Frustrated by the abrogation of promises by nuclear weapons states to disarm, countries that have foregone nuclear weapons joined forces with key m...

Nuclear Reactions explores the nuclear consensus that emerged in postWorld War II America, characterized by widespread support for a diplomatic and...

How researchers understood the atomic bombs effects on the human psyche before the recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.   In 1945, resear...