Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“aditya ramanathan”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “aditya ramanathan”
Skip side bar filters

  • The Sheathed Sword

    From Nuclear Brink to No First Use

    by Prakash Menon, Aditya Ramanathan ...
    After a brief interlude following the Cold War, nuclear weapons have regained their prominent place in world affairs. Yet our current nuclear age will not be a replay of the Cold War. New technologies, changing political contexts and the death of old arms-control agreements mean that today's nuclear strategists have to navigate unchartered waters filled with fresh perils. Unfortunately, the ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • 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

    Free

  • 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

    Was $7.99 USD Now $1.99 USD

  • Restraint

    A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy

    by Barry R. Posen ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    The United States, Barry R. Posen argues in Restraint**, has grown incapable of moderating its ambitions in international politics.** Since the collapse of Soviet power, it has pursued a grand strategy that he calls "liberal hegemony," one that Posen sees as unnecessary, counterproductive, costly, and wasteful. Written for policymakers and observers alike, Restraint explains precisely why this ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 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

    $18.09 USD

  • The Art of War in an Age of Peace

    U.S. Grand Strategy and Resolute Restraint

    by Michael O'Hanlon ...
    An informed modern plan for post-2020 American foreign policy that avoids the opposing dangers of retrenchment and overextensionRussia and China are both believed to have “grand strategies”—detailed sets of national security goals backed by means, and plans, to pursue them. In the United States, policy makers have tried to articulate similar concepts but have failed to reach a widespread consensus ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Case for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century

    by Brad Roberts ...
    "An excellent contribution to the debate on the future role of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence in American foreign policy." ― Contemporary Security PolicyThis book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of nuclear weapons in its security strategies and the number of weapons in its arsenal. The case against nuclear ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Weapons of Mass Destruction

    The Search for Global Security

    by Aiden Warren, Joseph M. Siracusa ...
    Series series Weapons of Mass Destruction and Emerging Technologies
    Whether possessed by a state or non-state actor, the specter of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), and more specifically, nuclear weapons and their associated material, present a significant threat to global security. Notwithstanding the fact that there are fewer nuclear weapons today than the massive stockpiles that existed during the height of the Cold War, the complexities relating to nuclear ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • 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

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    Free

  • Sleepwalking to Armageddon (Australian Edition)

    The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation

    Edited by Helen Caldicott ...
    A frightening but necessary assessment of the threat posed by nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century, edited by the world's leading antinuclear activistWith the world's attention focused on climate change and terrorism, we are in danger of taking our eyes off the nuclear threat. But rising tensions between Russia and NATO, proxy wars erupting in Syria and Ukraine, a nuclear-armed Pakistan, ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exporting the Bomb

    Technology Transfer and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons

    by Matthew H. Kroenig ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    In a vitally important book for anyone interested in nuclear proliferation, defense strategy, or international security, Matthew Kroenig points out that nearly every country with a nuclear weapons arsenal received substantial help at some point from a more advanced nuclear state. Why do some countries help others to develop nuclear weapons? Many analysts assume that nuclear transfers are driven by ... Read more

    $24.69 USD