Nuclear Weapons

Once dismissed as ineffectual, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has in the past twenty years emerged as a powerful international organ...

North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies. Since their...

On November 10, 2017, Pope Francis became the first pontiff in the nuclear era to take a complete stand against nuclear weapons, even as a form of ...

Many Baby Boomers still recall crouching under their grade-school desks in frequent bomb drills during the Cuban Missile Crisis - a clear represent...

Many myths have grown up around President Harry S. Trumans decision to use nuclear weapons against Imperial Japan. In destroying these myths, Trum...

Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince H...

From the dawn of the atomic age to today, nuclear weapons have been central to the internal dynamics of US alliances in Europe and Asia. But nuclea...

On November 10, 2017, Pope Francis became the first pontiff in the nuclear era to take a complete stand against nuclear weapons, even as a form of ...

This book of selections from the distinguished journal International Security speaks to the most important question of our age: the deterrence of n...

This is the story of a very British deterrent. Much has been written about the V-bombers the Valiant, Victor and Vulcan but virtually nothing has...

Advocating nuclear war, attempting communication with dolphins and taking an interest in the paranormal and UFOs, there is perhaps no greater (or s...

In Unraveling the Gray Area Problem, Luke Griffith examines the US role in why the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty took almost a dec...

This book of selections from the distinguished journal International Security speaks to the most important question of our age: the deterrence of n...

A groundbreaking account of Pakistans rise as a nuclear power draws on elite interviews and primary sources to challenge long-held misconceptions ...

A groundbreaking account of Pakistans rise as a nuclear power draws on elite interviews and primary sources to challenge long-held misconceptions ...

For decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the United States only needs the ability to absorb an enemy n...

Eddo Hartmanns new photographic project focuses on one of the first sacrifice zones created by governments in the late modern era for the secret pr...

The effects of weapons of mass destruction cannot be contained, either spatially or temporally, are unpredictable, discriminate poorly between comb...

At 02.45 hours on the morning of 6 August 1945, a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, named after the pilot's mother, Enola Gay, lifted off from a tiny isla...

In this engaging scientific memoir, Kenneth Ford recounts the time when, in his mid-twenties, he was a member of the team that designed and built t...

The North American F-100 Super Sabre served with the United States Air Forces in Europe for a total of sixteen years at the height of the Cold War....

During his impeachment proceedings, Richard Nixon boasted, I can go into my office and pick up the telephone and in twenty-five minutes seventy mil...

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