This story began before I was born, when my father, Ellis P. Steinberg, and uncle Bernard Abraham worked on the secret undertaking that developed the first atomic bombs. These later were dropped ove……続きを見る
著者:Jim Wilson
出版社: Pen & Sword Books
発売日: 2020年01月24日
This Cold War history examines the Cuban Missile Crisis from a British perspective, following events as they developed in London, Washington, and Moscow.
During the Cold War, the possibility of nucl……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Corbett
出版社: Manchester University Press
発売日: 2022年02月15日
In Supreme emergency, an ex-Trident submarine captain considers the evolution of UK nuclear deterrence policy and the implications of a previously unacknowledged aversion to military strategies that……続きを見る
著者:Sarah E. Robey
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2022年02月15日
At the dawn of the Atomic Age, Americans encountered troubling new questions brought about by the nuclear revolution: In a representative democracy, who is responsible for national public safety? Ho……続きを見る
Samuel S. Kloda spent more than 40 years meeting with the scientists who built the first atomic bombs, and the crews that delivered them to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those conversations encouraged him……続きを見る
This timely volume focuses on the period of decolonization and the Cold War as the backdrop to the emergence of new and diverse literary aesthetics that accompanied anti-imperialist commitments and ……続きを見る
Este reporte describe los efectos producidos por las bombas atómicas arrojadas sobre las ciudades de Hiroshima y Nagasaki, el 6 y el 9 de agosto de 1945 respectivamente. Resume toda la información q……続きを見る
Richly illustrated, and with a wealth of materials never before available in English, this book provides an overview of more than 200 of Nagasaki's A-bomb heritage sites. The entries are organized i……続きを見る
The first comprehensive, empirically grounded, and independent study of the history of the IAEA.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, which sends inspectors around the world to prevent states fro……続きを見る
著者:Thomas Bishop
出版社: University of Massachusetts Press
発売日: 2020年05月29日
In Every Home a Fortress, Thomas Bishop details the remarkable cultural history and personal stories behind an iconic figure of Cold War masculinityーthe fallout shelter father, who, with spade in h……続きを見る
In December 1994, Ukraine gave up the third-largest nuclear arsenal in the world and signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, having received assurances that its sovereignty would be respected and secur……続きを見る
This is an extract from the book Chemical Warrior: Syria, Salisbury and Saving Lives at War by Hamish de Bretton-Gordon (Headline Publishing Group, 2020).
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An updated and authoritative account of Australia’s involvement with nuclear power, including the AUKUS nuclear submarine pact.
Based on previously classified files and interviews with some of Austr……続きを見る
著者: Everest Media
出版社: Everest Media LLC
発売日: 2022年03月25日
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected president in 1961. He was young and optimistic, and he projected that h……続きを見る
Following the economically catastrophic 1990s, Russia has witnessed a significant recovery on the international stage since Vladimir Putin was elected president in 2000. Antagonism between Russia an……続きを見る
A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ‘the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis’ Daily Telegraph
The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most peril……続きを見る
著者:Walter Sierra
出版社: Walter Sierra LLC
発売日: 2021年12月31日
Avoiding Armageddon describes the herculean efforts expended by the United States and the Soviet Union to best each other in rocketry during the Cold War years, interspersed with attention-grabbing ……続きを見る
著者: Everest Media
出版社: Everest Media LLC
発売日: 2022年04月03日
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was offered an extremely attractive assignment overseas in mid-September, 1942. I was to be placed in cha……続きを見る
著者:P. D. Smith
出版社: Penguin Books Ltd
発売日: 2008年09月25日
It was the weapon to end all weapons: the doomsday device. A huge nuclear bomb so powerful that it could envelop the entire planet in a cloud of radioactive dust, and bring about instant extinction.……続きを見る
In this important new collection of interviews with the acclaimed radio journalist David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky discuses U.S. foreign policy in the post-9/11 world. Barsamian has a unique rapport w……続きを見る
In the nuclear age, arms are the ultimate commodity. And now they are easier and cheaper to acquire and make than ever before – which means that for poor nations or non-state terror groups, weapons ……続きを見る
At a time when the United States exacts a greater and greater power over the rest of the world, America's leading voice of dissent needs to be heard more than ever. In over thirty timely, accessible……続きを見る
Making the Future is the latest collection of essays from Noam Chomsky, one of our most vital and provocative voices of political dissent.
Taking up the thread from 2007's Interventions, these penet……続きを見る
Before the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case. But it was the twentieth century, one hundred years of almost incredible scientific progress, that saw the birth of the Bomb, the human race's……続きを見る
'Sitting not far below my feet, there was a thermonuclear warhead about twenty times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, all set and ready to go. The only sound was the sound of th……続きを見る
Because We Say So is Noam Chomsky's essential counter punch to American hegemony.
In 1962, the eminent statesman Dean Acheson enunciated a principle that has dominated global politics ever since: th……続きを見る
***Shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History*
'An enthralling account of a pivotal moment in modern history. . . replete with startling revelations about the deception and mu……続きを見る
**'If I were a voter in Britain, I would vote for [Jeremy Corbyn]' - Noam Chomsky, 2017
Global Discontents is an essential guide to geopolitics and how to fight back, from the world's leading public……続きを見る
J. Robert Oppenheimer is among the most contentious and important figures of the twentieth century. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis to develo……続きを見る
Everyone thought, when the alarm bell rang, that it was just another fire practice. But the first bombs had fallen on Hamburg and Leningrad, the headmaster said, and a full-scale nuclear attack was ……続きを見る