Summary SPIES AGAINST ARMAGEDDON is a powerful, vivid history of Israel’s intelligence services — led by the respected and feared Mossad — from the country’s…
Publication Type: Books
Summary Conceived by a misguided government seeking to quiet the fears of an anxious public, the concept of the Family Fallout Shelter was Cold War…
Summary This volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative projections of nuclear proliferation over the next decade and offers a range of practical nonproliferation measures.…
Summary Jeffrey T. Richelson reveals the history of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, from the events leading to its creation in 1974 to today. Defusing…
Summary This is a political history of nuclear weapons from the discovery of fission in 1938 to the nuclear train wreck that seems to loom…
Summary Most observers who follow nuclear history agree on one major aspect regarding Israel’s famous policy of nuclear ambiguity; mainly that it is an…
Summary Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons. What explains this? According to the author, the answer lies in a…
Summary For more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack…
Summary In contrast to the close cooperation practiced among European states, space relations among Asian states have become increasingly tense. If current trends continue, the…
Summary In his surprising new book, critically lauded author James Mann trains his keen analytical eye on Ronald Reagan and the Soviet Union, shedding new…
Summary This work canvasses nuclear weapon abolition, proposals placed on the table since 1945 and the obstacles and issues which a realistic program for abolition…
Summary The shadow war between Israel and Iran has been raging for more than three decades, ever since the Iranian revolution of 1979 ushered in…
Summary The 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty has proven the most complicated and controversial of all arms control treaties, both in principle and in practice. Statements…
Summary The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, had enormous consequences for the Rongelap people. Anthropologists Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly…
Summary Despite the global spread of nuclear hardware and knowledge, at least half of the nuclear weapons projects launched since 1970 have definitively failed, and…
