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  • Deterrence in the Third Nuclear Age

    by Pierre Vandier ...
    Translated by Armel Dirou, Julien Lalanne de Saint Quentin ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explains the evolution of nuclear doctrines along the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st in an evolving geopolitical context, particularly the potential use of nuclear weapons to blackmail or aggressively sanctuarize territorial gains, as it has been demonstrated by Russia in Ukraine.After five decades of the Cold War, known as the first nuclear age, the world attempted to ... Read more

    $42.99 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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  • Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction

    by Joseph M. Siracusa ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. As Bill Clinton's first secretary of defence, Les Aspin, aptly put it: 'The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is no more. But the post-Cold War world is decidedly not post-nuclear'. For all the effort to reduce nuclear stockpiles to zero, it seems that the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of War

    Edited by Julian Lindley-French, Yves Boyer ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of War is the definitive analysis of war in the twenty-first century. With over forty senior authors from academia, government and the armed forces world-wide the Handbook explores the history, theory, ethics and practice of war. The Handbook first considers the fundamental causes of war, before reflecting on the moral and legal aspects of war. Theories on the practice of war ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Fire In the East

    The Rise of Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age

    by Paul Bracken ...
    On May 11, 1998, India began testing nuclear weapons.The world will never be the same.The Indian test of five atomic bombs, and the Pakistani tests that answered a few weeks later, marked the end of the arms control system that has kept the world from nuclear war for half a century. As Paul Bracken, professor of management and political science at Yale University, explains in this landmark study, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy

    Why Strategic Superiority Matters

    by Matthew Kroenig ...
    Series series Bridging the Gap
    For decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the United States only needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and still be able to respond with a devastating counterattack. So long as the US, or any other nation, retains such an assured retaliation capability, no sane leader would intentionally launch a nuclear attack against it, and nuclear ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Rethinking the Bomb

    Europe and Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century

    by Marc-Michael Blum ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    The question of what Europe’s nuclear strategy should be is rarely discussed. While Europe continues to play a crucial role on issues relating to non-proliferation, particularly in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme, nuclear strategy is generally considered to be within remit of Russia, the United States and NATO. The paper identifies possible scenarios where the deployment of ... Read more

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  • Canada and the Nuclear Arms Race

    by Ernie Regehr ...
    First published in 1983, this book reports from the middle of the nuclear arms race, when the world's two superpowers, the US and the USSR, were adding increasingly sophisticated weapons to their arsenals, reaching a point where they could effectively wipe each other out many times over. Some of Canada's most distinguished critics of the nuclear arms race examine this drift to annihilation, show ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Understanding International Security

    Theory and Practice

    by Michael John Williams, James Wesley Hutto, Asli Peker Dogra ...
    International security is an ambiguous concept – it has many meanings to many people. Without an idea of how the world works, or how security is defined and achieved, it is impossible to create effective policies to provide security. This textbook clarifies the concept of security, the debates around it, how it is defined, and how it is pursued. Tracking scholarly approaches within security ... Read more

    $41.99 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 Nuclear North

    Histories of Canada in the Atomic Age

    by Susan Colbourn, Timothy Andrews Sayle ...
    Series series The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History
    Since the first atomic weapon was detonated in 1945, Canadians have debated not only the role of nuclear power in their uranium-rich land but also their country’s role in a nuclear world.The Nuclear North investigates critical questions in these ongoing debates. Should Canada belong to international alliances that depend on the threat of using nuclear weapons for their own security? Should ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Dangers of Nuclear War

    A Pugwash Symposium

    Edited by Franklyn Griffiths, John C. Polanyi ...
    Series series Heritage
    This collection of studies is one of the most lucid and sober analyses of the dangers of nuclear war, which mankind is facing. Written by natural and social scientists, the book should be read both by statesmen and by the general public. Looking towards the end of the century it makes clear the growing dangers. Avoiding complacency on the other hand, and prophecies of doom on the other, it ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD