Nuclear Weapons

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...

In the wake of the 1979 Iranian revolution, relations between states in the Middle East were reconfigured and reassessed overnight. Amongst the mos...

'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...