Nuclear Weapons

Challenging nuclearism explores how a deliberate normalisation of nuclear weapons has been constructed, why it has prevailed in international polit...

The young dictator comes under close scrutiny in this intelligent account Sunday Times When Kim Jong Un became the leader of North Korea in 2011, ...

Did you know that the uranium used to bomb the citizens of Hiroshima was mined at a forbidden site known as the money place by First Nation people ...

US President Harry Truman evidently understood the terrifying power of atomic weaponry, but no one could have realised its full potential when he o...

How and why China has pursued information-age weapons to gain leverage against its adversariesHow can states use military force to achieve their po...

How and why China has pursued information-age weapons to gain leverage against its adversariesHow can states use military force to achieve their po...

Heavy water (deuterium oxide) played a sinister role in the race for nuclear energy during the World War II. It was a key factor in Germany's bid t...

Like shifting sands of a desert, the global nuclear landscape changes every few years across its three main constituents - nuclear energy, non-prol...

Previous works on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) have approached the topic from the point of view of the U.S. and its allies, while Cuban experien...

This collection examines the extent to which nuclear weapons modernization has become a significant point of concern and consideration in internati...

Preventing Nuclear War: The Medical and Humanitarian Case for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons provides a window into the work of the Internation...

This book offers a broader theory of nuclear deterrence and examines the way nuclear and conventional deterrence interact with non-military factors...

This volume, Nuclear Disarmament, provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear disarmament and a critical assessment of the way forward.Comprising ...

Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific ...

Michael J. Coumatos, former US Space Command Director in charge of war games and a former National Security Agency advisor, and William B. Scott, e...

The hands of humans split the atom and reshaped the world. Gradually revealing a sublime nightmare that begins with spontaneous nuclear fission in ...

The concept and utility of strategic defense should be evaluated in an embracing cultural context defined by the values, attitudes, and worldview o...

North Korea is one of the world's smallest and poorest nations, yet it is one of only nine nations with a nuclear arsenal. Its long-range missiles ...

NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat is the history of the air defence of Canada during the Cold War era. The reader is taken into the Top Secret wo...

This book offers an exploration of ballistic missile proliferation in the Middle East and also delves into the geopolitical landscape to unveil a n...

In 1960, President Kennedy warned of a dangerous future, rife with nuclear-armed states and a widespread penchant for conflict by the end of the ce...

Nuclear Reactions explores the nuclear consensus that emerged in postWorld War II America, characterized by widespread support for a diplomatic and...

The Iranian nuclear crisis has dominated world politics since the beginning of the century, with the country now facing increasing diplomatic isola...

North Koreas Nuclear Cinema examines why and how North Korea has transitioned to an image-based nuclear power in the changing context of a post-Col...

The launch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958 signalled the first modern protest movement in Britain. Martin Shaw details CND's rise, ...

The launch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in 1958 signalled the first modern protest movement in Britain. Martin Shaw details CND's rise, ...

Challenging the legality of UK nuclear policy as a further generation of nuclear-armed submarines is developed, Trident and International Law asks ...

The atom bombs dropped on Japan at the end of the Second World War opened the door to the nuclear age. Seeing the potential for developing nuclear ...