Nuclear Weapons

This book analyses 10 C.F.R. 37, a new rule promulgated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to protect radioactive material. By-product mat...

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...

The U.S. Navy operates three types of submarines- nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), nuclear-powered cruise missile and special ...

The Department of Energy (DOE) has adhered to its practice of using only unobligated low-enriched uranium (LEU) to meet national security needs for...

A pit is the plutonium trigger of a thermonuclear weapon. During the Cold War, the Rocky Flats Plant (CO) made up to 2,000 pits per year (ppy),...

In this sobering book, Barry R. Posen demonstrates how the interplay between conventional military operations and nuclear forces could, in conflict...

We are at a critical juncture in world politics. Nuclear strategy and policy have risen to the top of the global policy agenda, and issues ranging ...

Leading analysts have predicted for decades that nuclear weapons would help pacify international politics. The core notion is that countries protec...

Scientists have always kept secrets. But rarely in history have scientific secrets been as vital as they were during World War II. In the midst of ...

DOD spends billions of dollars annually to sustain its weapon systems to support current and future operations. The Air Force and Navy are operatin...

Political Fallout is the story of one of the first human-driven, truly global environmental crisesradioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing ...

Super Bomb unveils the story of the events leading up to President Harry S. Truman's 1950 decision to develop a super, or hydrogen, bomb. That fate...

This book addresses the incentives for nations to develop nuclear weapons and the technical expertise needed for that purpose. Ballistic missiles a...

'You couldn't make these stories up: yet they're true, and Lewis does the memory of these extraordinary men full justice in a tale that is both hea...

The most significant challenge to the post-Cold War international order is the growing power of ambitious states opposed to the West. Iran, Russia ...

North Korea has been among the most vexing and persistent problems in U.S. foreign policy in the post-Cold War period. The United States has never ...

The Nuclear Dilemma in a Changing World.The War That Must Never Be Fought explores how nuclear deterrence should be understood seventy years after ...

The history of Pakistan's nuclear program is the history of Pakistan. Fascinated with the new nuclear science, the young nation's leaders launched ...

We ourselves were almost awestruck, not so much at the power of the Bomb, for this we had expected, but because the Americans had used it with so l...

As a region with abundant resources and rapidly growing transit potential surrounded by nuclear-armed powers, Central Asia is increasingly drawing ...

This book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of nuclear weapons in its s...

This book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of nuclear weapons in its s...

This book highlights the role of nuclear weapons in 21st century U.S. policy. The world has changed a great deal in the last decade and a half. The...

Because of the immense military power they can confer, the political control of nuclear weapons has been a key issue for as long as they have exist...

Weapons of mass destruction (WMD), especially in the hands of radical states and terrorists, represent a major threat to U.S. national security int...

This book is an overview of the U.S. nuclear stockpile and the issues relating to maintenance and replacement of warheads. Nuclear weapons will con...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)plays a crucial role in supporting U.S. nuclear non-proliferation goals through its safeguards and nuc...