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  • Curbing the spread of nuclear weapons

    by Ian Bellany ...
    With the 2005 Review Conference of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty in the background, this book provides a fully detailed but accessible and accurate introduction to the technical aspects of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons for the specialist and non-specialist alike. It considers nuclear weapons from varying perspectives, including the technology perspective, which views them as spillovers ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • New Conventional Weapons and Western Defence

    by Ian Bellany, Tim Huxley ...
    Giving an overview of research and development in weaponry in the maritime and aviation sphere as well as land-based technology, this study looks forward to the effects of emerging innovations on defence policy-making. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty

    by Ian Bellany, Coit D. Blacker, Joseph Gallacher ...
    This study looks at the interpretations and effects of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and offers readings of its possible future effects. ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Antiballistic Missile Defence in the 1980s

    Edited by Ian Bellany, Coit D. Blacker ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cold War Security Studies
    This book, first published in 1983, analyses the technical and political developments in the two decades after the 1972 Soviet-American ABM treaty. It signposts the route for discussion of the antiballistic missile question – with its shared tacit assumption that nuclear war is for deterring and not fighting – and examines the dangerous tendency to conduct the ABM debate of the 1980s with the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction

    Responding to the Challenge

    Edited by Ian Bellany ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    There is a widely held belief in the imminent probability of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons of mass destruction being used by terrorists against civilian targets. This edited volume critically assesses the suggestion that one safeguard against this possibility would be to strengthen existing international prohibitions against state- level acquisition of such weapons.A glimpse of the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Britain's Strategic Nuclear Deterrent

    From Before the V-Bomber to Beyond Trident

    by Robert H. Paterson ...
    Having served opposite Warsaw Pact forces in the 1950s and on Embassy duty in the 70s in Europe, the author offers a reasoned assessment of Britain's role in the so-called "nuclear club". He asks whether Britain really needs to be a member. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy

    The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower

    by Derek S. Reveron, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Mackubin Thomas Owens ...
    Safe from the battlefields of Europe and Asia, the United States led the post–World War II global economic recovery through international assistance and foreign direct investment. With an ardent decolonization agenda and a postwar legitimacy, the United States attempted to construct a world characterized by cooperation. When American optimism clashed with Soviet expansionism, the United States ... Read more

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  • Arms Canada

    The Deadly Business of Military Exports

    by Ernie Regehr ...
    This 1987 book begins with a scene from the American invasion of Grenada: as politicians in Ottawa argued whether Canada had been misled or merely ignored over the invasion, the fighter aircraft, helicopters, and ships used in the operation employed key Canadian components.Grenada was only too typical of Canada's involvement in the international arms trade. Drawing on a wealth of original research ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Learning to Love the Bomb

    by Sean M. Maloney ...
    In Learning to Love the Bomb, Sean M. Maloney explores the controversial subject of Canadas acquisition of nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Based on newly declassified Canadian and U.S. documents, it examines policy, strategy, operational, and technical matters and weaves these seemingly disparate elements into a compelling story that finally unlocks several Cold War mysteries. For example, ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • 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 USD

  • Flawed Logics

    Strategic Nuclear Arms Control from Truman to Obama

    by James H. Lebovic ...
    Can a nation accept limits in an arms competition?James H. Lebovic explores the logic of seeking peace in an arms race. Flawed Logics offers a compelling intellectual history of U.S.-Russian strategic nuclear arms control.Lebovic thoroughly reviews the critical role of ideas and assumptions in U.S. arms control debates, tying them to controversies over U.S. nuclear strategy from the birth of the ... Read more

    $45.89 USD

  • 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 USD