Weapons & Equipment

We are at a time when international law and the law of war are particularly important. The testing of nuclear weapons that is being used in the rhe...

The primary mission assigned to the British Army from the 1950s until the end of the Cold War was deterring Soviet aggression in Europe by demonstr...

The untold story of the hitherto secret projects that lead to the development of inertial navigation in the UK, and the many missiles that were des...

The nine nuclear weapon states are extending their commitments to nuclear deterrence well into the second half of this century, despite treaty obli...

This book provides an introduction to political and strategic aspects of nuclear weaponry. It offers an accessible overview of the concept of nucle...

In the early 1950s the United States wished to concentrate its defence resources on the development of a 4,000 mile range intercontinental ballisti...

On 6 August and 8 August 1945, the world changed forever with the release of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. In January 1947, ...

The UK is one of nine states possessing nuclear weapons. Renewal of the Trident programme would extend Britains commitment to so-called nuclear det...

Churchill's Bomb - from the author of the Costa award-winning biography The Strangest Man - reveals a new aspect of Winston Churchill's life, so fa...

In the spring of 1945 the Allies arrested the physicists they believed had worked on the German nuclear programme during the war. Interned in an En...

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...