Summary A long-time staple of International Relations courses, this new edition continues the important discussion of nuclear proliferation, while looking at the regions and issues…
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Abstract Scott D. Sagan notes that the question of why states seek to build nuclear weapons has scarcely been examined, although it is crucial to…
Summary The final volume in Richard Rhodes’s prizewinning history of nuclear weapons offers the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in the post-Cold War…
Summary In rich, human, political, and scientific detail, here is the complete story of the nuclear bomb. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly–or have…
Summary Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the…
Summary Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War. In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United…
Summary Conventional wisdom has long assumed that nuclear proliferation is inevitable. But as the author points out, the avowed nuclear powers have remained restricted to…
Summary In this Council Special Report, Paul Lettow examines the shortcomings of the nonproliferation regime and proposes a comprehensive agenda to shore it up. He…
Summary Robert Jervis argues here that the possibility of nuclear war has created a revolution in military strategy and international relations. He examines how the…
Summary Kahn argued that though nuclear war may seem highly unlikely, indeed unthinkable, to many people it is not impossible. Today, four decades into the…
Summary On Thermonuclear War was controversial when originally published and remains so today. It is iconoclastic, crosses disciplinary boundaries, and finally it is calm and…
Summary In this widely discussed and influential book, Herman Kahn probes the dynamics of escalation and demonstrates how the intensification of conflict can be depicted…
Summary Although nearly fifty countries have a nuclear capacity, and many more are working towards this goal, only a few are actually in possession of…
Summary The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism, a new book from the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, assesses the motivations and capabilities of terrorist organizations to…
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Summary The Task Force report, titled U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, focuses on near-term policies to reduce nuclear weapons to the lowest possible level consistent with…
Continue reading Ferguson, Charles D., Perry, William J., and Scowcroft, Brent
