Nuclear Weapons

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...

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...