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  • Nuclear Politics

    The Strategic Causes of Proliferation

    by Alexandre Debs, Nuno P. Monteiro ...
    Series Book 142 - Cambridge Studies in International Relations
    When do states acquire nuclear weapons? Overturning a decade of scholarship focusing on other factors, Debs and Monteiro show in Nuclear Politics that proliferation is driven by security concerns. Proliferation occurs only when a state has both the willingness and opportunity to build the bomb. A state has the willingness to nuclearize when it faces a serious security threat without the support of ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

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  • Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

    Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World?

    by Sverre Lodgaard ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.This book examines the current debate on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, notably the ... Read more

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  • The Seventh Decade

    The New Shape of Nuclear Danger

    by Jonathan Schell ...
    Series series American Empire Project
    From the bestselling author of The Fate of the Earth, a provocative look at the urgent threat posed by America's new nuclear policies.When the cold war ended, many Americans believed the nuclear dilemma had ended with it. Instead, the bomb has moved to the dead center of foreign policy and even domestic scandal. From missing WMDs to the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, nuclear matters are back ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • UKRAINE

    ZBIG'S GRAND CHESSBOARD & HOW THE WEST WAS CHECKMATED

    by Natylie Baldwin & Kermit E. Heartsong ...
    REVIEWSI’m not sure if there’s been a better written book published yet this year than Ukraine: Zbig’s Grand Chessboard and How the West Was Checkmated, but I’m confident there’s not been a more important one. With some 17,000 nuclear bombs in the world, the United States and Russia have about 16,000 of them. The United States is aggressively flirting with World War III, the people of the United ... Read more

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  • The Globalization of NATO

    by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, Denis J. Halliday ...
    Spawned by the Cold War, NATOs existence was justified by Soviet threats to Western Europe. That raison dêtre is long gone with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Still NATO globalized relentlessly, moving from defensive to offensive under pretexts of humanitarianism, starting with Yugoslavia, then East Africa, Afghanistan, and most recently Libya, acting as an arm of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Bomb Scare

    The History & Future of Nuclear Weapons

    by Joseph Cirincione ...
    "A welcome antidote to the strange confluence of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) opponents" by one of America's best known weapons experts (Christopher F. Chyba, Science).With clarity and expertise, Joseph Cirincione presents an even-handed look at the history of nuclear proliferation and an optimistic vision of its future, providing a comprehensive survey of the wide range of critical ... Read more

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  • Right of Boom

    The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism

    by Benjamin E. Schwartz ...
    "[A] seasoned national security professional and gifted writer" offers an in-depth analysis of what might happen after a nuclear attack on US soil (Matthew Kroenig, author of Exporting the Bomb).In the parlance of disaster preparedness, "right of boom" refers to the terrifying moments after a crisis hits. In Right of Boom, national security specialist Benjamin Schwartz examines what could happen ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Deterrence in a Multipolar World

    The U.S., Russia and Security Challenges

    by Stephen Cimbala ...
    The view that America and Russia have burned their candles on security cooperation with respect to nuclear weapons is simply mistaken. This timely study identifies twelve themes or issue areas that must be addressed by the United States and Russia if they are to provide shared, successful leadership in the management of nuclear world order. Designed as supplementary reading in upper division and ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy

    by Todd S. Sechser, Matthew Fuhrmann ...
    Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy? Since 1945, most strategic thinking about nuclear weapons has focused on deterrence - using nuclear threats to prevent attacks against the nation's territory and interests. But an often overlooked question is whether nuclear threats can also coerce adversaries to relinquish possessions or change their behavior. Can nuclear weapons be used to ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Armageddon Postponed

    A Different View of Nuclear Weapons

    by Theodore Caplow ...
    In the closing days of World War II, scientists working for the U.S. government invented nuclear explosives by splitting the atoms of heavy metals. Germany had already surrendered, but the United States and its allies remained at war with Japan. In the summer of 1945, the Japanese city of Hiroshima was flattened by a single nuclear bomb. A second bombing occurred just a few days later, decimating ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Future of Land Warfare

    by Michael E. O'Hanlon ...
    Series series Geopolitics in the 21st Century
    What happens if we bet too heavily on unmanned systems, cyber warfare, and special operations in our defense?In today's U.S. defense policy debates, big land wars are out. Drones, cyber weapons, special forces, and space weapons are in. Accordingly, Pentagon budget cuts have honed in on the army and ground forces: this, after the long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, seems like an appealing idea. No ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Nuclear Logics

    Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East

    by Etel Solingen ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
    Nuclear Logics examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them. Looking closely at nine cases in East Asia and the Middle East, Etel Solingen finds two distinct regional patterns. In East Asia, the norm since the late 1960s has been to forswear nuclear weapons, and North Korea, which makes no secret of its nuclear ambitions, is the anomaly. In the Middle East the opposite ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD