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Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy
ISBN: 9781107106949 / Angielski / Twarda / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 blackmail other countries? The prevailing wisdom is that nuclear weapons are useful for coercion, but this book shows that this view is badly misguided. Nuclear weapons are useful mainly for deterrence...
Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy? Since 1945, most strategic thinking about nuclear weapons has focused on deterrence - using nuclear...
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Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy
ISBN: 9781107514515 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 blackmail other countries? The prevailing wisdom is that nuclear weapons are useful for coercion, but this book shows that this view is badly misguided. Nuclear weapons are useful mainly for deterrence...
Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy? Since 1945, most strategic thinking about nuclear weapons has focused on deterrence - using nuclear...
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The Power of Deterrence: Emotions, Identity, and American and Israeli Wars of Resolve
ISBN: 9781107143395 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Argues that states' attachment to the strategy of deterrence can increases the chances of violence rather than avoid it.
Argues that states' attachment to the strategy of deterrence can increases the chances of violence rather than avoid it.
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Project on Nuclear Issues: A Collection of Papers from the 2015 Conference Series
ISBN: 9781442259454 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This annual volume includes papers from the 2015 CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues' Capstone Conference. Spanning a wide range of technical and policy issues, the papers further discussion in their respective areas and contribute to the training of the greater nuclear community.
This annual volume includes papers from the 2015 CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues' Capstone Conference. Spanning a wide range of technical and policy is...
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Reflections: Memories of Sacrifices Shared and Comrades Lost in the Line of Duty
ISBN: 9781524514099 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Reflections: Memories of Sacrifices Shared and Comrades Lost in the Line of Duty
ISBN: 9781524514105 / Angielski / Twarda / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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136,03 |
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Nuclear India in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9781349387793 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays, unlike other books on this subject, emphasizes strategic, technological, and economic factors. It includes contributions from a combination of academics and governmental experts from both the United States and India. Nuclear India in the Twenty-First Century provides an important picture of India's nuclear intentions and capabilities and should facilitate policies that the US may consider in response to regional and global proliferation.
This collection of essays, unlike other books on this subject, emphasizes strategic, technological, and economic factors. It includes contributions fr...
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IRAN-A Writ of Deception and Cover-up: Iranian Regime's Secret Committee Hid Military Dimensions of its Nuclear Program
ISBN: 9780990432746 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on reliable information obtained by the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) network inside Iran, a top-secret committee is in charge of drafting the answers to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regarding the Possible Military Dimensions (PMD) of Tehran's nuclear program. Top officials from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Ministry of Defense Armed Forces Logistics (MODAFL) comprise the committee's key members. They have been tasked with drafting the responses to IAEA's PMD inquiries working to cover up the military dimensions, thus resolving and terminating the... Based on reliable information obtained by the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) network inside Iran, a top-secret committee is in charge of drafting the answ... |
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The Origins of U.S. Nuclear Strategy, 1945-1953
ISBN: 9781349606764 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States took almost a decade after Hiroshima and Nagasaki to develop a coherent strategy of nuclear deterrence. it also suggests the inherent difficulties of relying on nuclear weapons to provide security in the first place.
The United States took almost a decade after Hiroshima and Nagasaki to develop a coherent strategy of nuclear deterrence. it also suggests the inheren...
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Cooperative Threat Reduction, Missile Defense and the Nuclear Future
ISBN: 9781349388066 / Angielski / Miękka / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Michael Krepon analyzes nuclear issues such as missile defenses, space warfare, and treaties, and argues that the United States is on a dangerous course.
In this book, Michael Krepon analyzes nuclear issues such as missile defenses, space warfare, and treaties, and argues that the United States is on a ...
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At the Nuclear Precipice: Catastrophe or Transformation?
ISBN: 9781349375707 / Angielski / Miękka / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the intersections between international lawand national policies, and nuclear proliferationanddisarmament, offeringa way out if policy makers of leading countries can summon the vision and political will to move away from the nuclear precipice andensure humanity's future."
This book examines the intersections between international lawand national policies, and nuclear proliferationanddisarmament, offeringa way out if pol...
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Detect and Deter: Can Countries Verify the Nuclear Test Ban?
ISBN: 9789401778381 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) verification from the perspective of the United States, including new scientific developments and political analysis on improving compliance verification and efforts to monitor countries of concern.
This book addresses Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) verification from the perspective of the United States, including new scientific developments...
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The Bomb: Nuclear Weapons in Their Historical, Strategic and Ethical Context
ISBN: 9781138152038 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This tightly argued and profoundly thought provoking book tackles a huge subject: the coming of the nuclear age with bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and the ways in which it has changed our lives since. Dr Heuser sets these events in their historical context and tackles key issues about the effect of nuclear weapons on modern attitudes to conflict, and on the ethics of warfare. Ducking nothing, she demystifies the subject, seeing the bomb' not as something unique and paralysing, but as an integral part of the strategic and moral context of our time. For a wide...
This tightly argued and profoundly thought provoking book tackles a huge subject: the coming of the nuclear age with bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
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707,28 |
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Polonium in the Playhouse: The Manhattan Project's Secret Chemistry Work in Dayton, Ohio
ISBN: 9780814254042 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the height of the race to build an atomic bomb, an indoor tennis court in one of the Midwest's most affluent residential neighborhoods became a secret Manhattan Project laboratory. Polonium in the Playhouse: The Manhattan Project's Secret Chemistry Work in Dayton, Ohio presents the intriguing story of how this most unlikely site in Dayton, Ohio, became one of the most classified portions of the Manhattan Project. Seized by the War Department in 1944 for the bomb project, the Runnymede Playhouse was transformed into a polonium processing facility, providing a critical...
At the height of the race to build an atomic bomb, an indoor tennis court in one of the Midwest's most affluent residential neighborhoods became a sec...
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The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent: Volume II: The Labour Government and the Polaris Programme, 1964-1970
ISBN: 9781138292062 / Angielski / Twarda / 582 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Behind the Fog: How the U.S. Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans
ISBN: 9781138239661 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Behind the Fog is the first in-depth, comprehensive examination of the United States' Cold War radiological weapons program. The book examines controversial military-sponsored studies and field trials using radioactive "simulants" that exposed American civilians to radiation and other hazardous substances without their knowledge or consent during the Cold War. Although Western biological and chemical weapons programs have been analyzed by a number of scholars, Behind the Fog is a strong departure from the rest in that the United States radiological weapons program... Behind the Fog is the first in-depth, comprehensive examination of the United States' Cold War radiological weapons program. The book <... |
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Behind the Fog: How the U.S. Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans
ISBN: 9781138239678 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Behind the Fog is the first in-depth, comprehensive examination of the United States' Cold War radiological weapons program. The book examines controversial military-sponsored studies and field trials using radioactive "simulants" that exposed American civilians to radiation and other hazardous substances without their knowledge or consent during the Cold War. Although Western biological and chemical weapons programs have been analyzed by a number of scholars, Behind the Fog is a strong departure from the rest in that the United States radiological weapons program... Behind the Fog is the first in-depth, comprehensive examination of the United States' Cold War radiological weapons program. The book <... |
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Last of the Glow Worms: Memoir of a Nuclear Weapons Technician at the End of the Cold War
ISBN: 9781476671352 / Angielski / Miękka / 189 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the early 1950s until 1992, the US Army deployed thousands of nuclear warheads throughout Europe as a deterrent to Soviet ambitions. The end of the Cold War saw the decommissioning of much of the US nuclear arsenal and the phasing out of support personnel. This memoir by one of the Army's last "glow worms" chronicles his career as a nuclear weapons specialist.
From the early 1950s until 1992, the US Army deployed thousands of nuclear warheads throughout Europe as a deterrent to Soviet ambitions. The end of t...
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Nevada Test Site
ISBN: 9781540200822 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Silencing the Bomb: One Scientist's Quest to Halt Nuclear Testing
ISBN: 9780231182485 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In December 2016, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved their iconic "Doomsday Clock" thirty seconds forward to two and a half minutes to midnight, the latest it has been set since 1952, the year of the first United States hydrogen bomb test. But a group of scientists--geologists, engineers, and physicists--has been fighting to turn back the clock. Since the dawn of the Cold War, they have advocated a halt to nuclear testing, their work culminating in the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which still awaits ratification from China, Iran, North Korea--and the United States. The backbone of the...
In December 2016, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved their iconic "Doomsday Clock" thirty seconds forward to two and a half minutes to midnight, ...
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