March 1968: three miles below the stormy surface of the North Pacific, a Soviet submarine lay silent as a tomb-its crew dead, its payload of nuclear missiles, once directed toward strategic targets in Hawaii, inoperable. No longer a real threat, the sub still presented an alluring target and it was not long before the CIA answered its siren call-even at the risk of igniting World War III. Project AZORIAN-the monumentally audacious six-year mission to recover the sub and learn its secrets-has b...
Chemical Weapons and Missile Proliferation
In this examination of the possible threat posed by the marriage of an age-old weapon, poison gas, with a nuclear-age delivery system, the ballistic missile, the authors assess the alleged proliferation of chemical weapons and missile technology worldwide, with particular emphasis on the Asia/Pacific region. They also describe the ongoing efforts to curb chemical and missile proliferation and to find lasting solutions to the problem. Detailed attention is given to the new chemical weapons conven...
In the Afghan wild lands, British and American special forces soldiers ate, slept, fought and died alongside each other - working in close-knit units, the likes of which have rarely been seen since the Second World War. This is the story of the trials and exploits, the victories and defeats, of one of those units. This book takes us from the first ever assault against a terrorist ship carrying weapons of mass destruction to attack London, to the epic siege of the terrorist-held Qala-I-Janghi for...
The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition (Stanford Nuclear Age)
by Jonathan Schell
Now combined in one volume, these two books helped focus national attention in the early 1980s on the movement for a nuclear freeze. The Fate of the Earth painted a chilling picture of the planet in the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust, while The Abolition offered a proposal for full-scale nuclear disarmament. With the recent tensions in India and Pakistan, and concerns about nuclear proliferation around the globe, public attention is once again focused on the worldwide nuclear situation. The au...
US Presidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946-1967 (Centennial of Flight)
by Sean N. Kalic
In the clash of ideologies represented by the Cold War, even the heavens were not immune to militarization. Satellites and space programs became critical elements among the national security objectives of both the United States and the Soviet Union. According toUSPresidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946-1967, three American presidents in succession shared a fundamental objective of preserving space as a weapons-free frontier for the benefit of all humanity. Between 1953 and 1967 Preside...
La crónica sobre seis supervivientes de Hiroshima que se convirtió en un gran clásico del periodismo. Toda persona que sepa leer, debería leer este libro.»Saturday Review of Literature. El verano de 1945, William Shawn, director ejecutivo de The New Yorker, habló con el reportero John Hersey sobre la idea de publicar un relato que ilustrara la dimensión humana de los efectos de la bomba atómica en Hiroshima, pues le causaba estupor comprobar que, pese a la gran cantidad de información sobre...
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation. One of its most terrifying moments came on 18 October, when President John F. Kennedy and his advisers discussed the prospect that, if US forces invaded Cuba to remove th...
From master storyteller and historian H. W. Brands, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, comes the riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the post-World War II order. At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shockwaves around the world. When asked by a reporter about the possible use of atomic weapons in response to China's entry into the war, Truman replied testily, "...
Strategy-Policy Mismatch
by Timothy M. Bonds, Eric V Larson, Derek Eaton, and Richard E Darilek
The Challenge of Nuclear-Armed Regional Adversaries
by David Ochmanek and Lowell H. Schwartz
The terrifying first use of nuclear weapons over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 was the most controversial act of warfare in history, dramatically ending the Second World War but ushering in the age of mass destruction. Yet it was also the climax of a story that extends beyond Japan and Washington: the culmination of decades of scientific achievement and centuries of colonial exploitation. Snake Dance is the account of a journey that turned into a quest to discover how humanity reaches t...
Project on Nuclear Issues (CSIS Reports)
by Stephanie Spies and Sarah Weiner
The Center for Strategic and International Studies launched the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) in 2003 in order to revitalize and strengthen a community of nuclear weapons experts whose training and background increasingly emphasize multidisciplinary expertise, especially among younger generations. In support of this goal, the PONI conference series was created to provide a forum for facilitating new and innovative thinking on how to address the evolving role of nuclear weapons in internationa...
History of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Volume I
by Joint Chiefs of Staff
North Korean Nuclear Weapons Crisis, The: The Nuclear Taboo Revisited?
by Jina Kim
Should Israel have a bomb? Is a governmental policy of ambiguity tenable in a domestic society? What are a newspaper's responsibilities towards an informer? This book raises these and other questions. It traces Vanunu's personal history, and looks at how and why a low-level technician was able to provide such a scoop. It considers the implications the case has had f or Israel's intelligence community, the Arab-Israeli balance of power and Iraq's nuclear development. Cohen also unravels the myste...