Weapons & Equipment

Almost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves from an invisible e...

Given recent controversies over suspected WMD programs in proliferating countries, there is an increasingly urgent need for effective monitoring an...

Mustard gas is typically associated with the horrors of World War I battlefields and trenches, where chemical weapons were responsible for tens of ...

The new Naval Institute Wheel Books provide important information, pragmatic advice, and cogent analysis on topics important to all naval professio...

Frustrated by the abrogation of promises by nuclear weapons states to disarm, countries that have foregone nuclear weapons joined forces with key m...

This publication contains a commentary on the voluntary, non-binding norms of responsible State behaviour from the 2015 report of the United Nation...

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

In warfare, civil unrest, and political protest, chemicals have served as means of coercion, suppression, and manipulation. This book examines how ...

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...

How the character of war is changing and how militaries can successfully adapt to meet the challenge   This book by military strategist Andrew F. K...

The summer of 1958 was a nerve-racking time. Ever since the Soviet Union proved that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile...

We were certainly pioneers as the Trieste was one of only two such vehicles in the world--the French Navy's bathyscaphe FNRS-3 was the other. It me...

Now facing a genuinely unprecedented configuration of existential threats, Israel's leaders must decide whether to continue their deliberate nuclea...

This publication describes the achievements and shortfalls of the first twenty years of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, ...

Former secretary of defense Leon Panetta once described cyber warfare as the most serious threat in the twenty-first century, capable of destroying...

China has evolved from a nation with local and regional security interests to a major economic and political power with global interests, investmen...

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...

Assured Destruction: Building the Ballistic Missile Culture of the U.S. Air Force documents the rapid development of nuclear ballistic missiles in ...

The story of arms in Western Europe from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. A treasury of information based on solid scholarship, anyon...