Nuclear Weapons

This volume provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection of theoretical perspectives regarding the sources of and propensity for nucle...

The summer of 1958 was a nerve-racking time. Ever since the Soviet Union proved that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile...

Now facing a genuinely unprecedented configuration of existential threats, Israel's leaders must decide whether to continue their deliberate nuclea...

For a state that has gained a global reputation as a violator of international norms, not least through its unwavering pursuit of nuclear weapons, ...

This volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative projections of nuclear proliferation over the next decade and offers a range of pract...

Interest in nuclear energy has surged in recent years, yet there are risks that accompany the global diffusion of nuclear powerespecially the possi...

The last two decades have seen a slow but steady increase in nuclear armed states, and in the seemingly less constrained policy goals of some of th...

This book offers an in-depth historical and technical description of Iran's nuclear program in political, economic, and strategic contexts. The aut...

For decades, films such as WarGames and The Terminator have warned that the combination of artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons might be a r...

This is the first book-length study of why states sometimes ignore, oppose, or undermine elements of the nuclear nonproliferation regimeeven as the...

The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weaponsMuch of the work on nuclear proliferati...

At 18 years of age, Theodore Hall was the youngest physicist on the Manhattan Project, hired as a junior at Harvard and put to work at Los Alamos i...

In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's mos...

'Everything about this story is astounding' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday TimesTrinity was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New ...

An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the Manhattan Project.After his father died,...

This book examines Japans nuclear identity and its implications for abolition of nuclear weapons. By applying analytical eclecticism in combination...

**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**'A work of non-fiction . . . but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel . ....

In Resurrecting Nagasaki, Chad R. Diehl explores the genesis of narratives surrounding the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945, by following the indiv...

In Resurrecting Nagasaki, Chad R. Diehl explores the genesis of narratives surrounding the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945, by following the indiv...

With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care ...

In the heady days of the Cold War, when the Bomb loomed large in the ruminations of Washingtons wise men, policy intellectuals flocked to the home ...

The Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat exploration of what would happen in the event of nuclear war, perfect for readers of American Promet...

Up to now, no one outside of official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the Pentagon. Seco...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WA PREMIER'S BOOK AWARDS - BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARGARET MEDCALF AWARD 2024'I remember seeing a flash, I tu...

Will AI make accidental nuclear war more likely? If so, how might these risks be reduced? AI and the Bomb provides a coherent, innovative, and mult...