Weapons & Equipment

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...

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, todays world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, an...

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 ...

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...

This Atom Bomb in Me traces what it felt like to grow up suffused with American nuclear culture in and around the atomic city of Oak Ridge, Tenness...

Do alliances curb efforts by states to develop nuclear weapons? Atomic Assurance looks at what makes alliances sufficiently credible to prevent nuc...

'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 ...