This landmark history of nuclear power is perfectly timed for today, when Americans are gravely concerned with nuclear terrorism, and a nuclear renaissance is seen as a possible solution to global w……続きを見る
著者:Daniel Ford
出版社: Warbird Books
発売日: 2015年02月24日
This story began as a study of lofting or tossing nuclear weapons, known as"LABs," for Low Altitude Bombing system. I became fascinated with the notion of using the prop-driven Skyraider for this pu……続きを見る
Sadako Okuda was a sewing teacher on a small island some 35 miles outside of Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Even at that distance, her vision and hearing on her right side were ……続きを見る
Nuclear weapons policy has recently gained national exposure by the fact that the president declared a desire to reduce the number of nuclear weapons with a final goal of eliminating them all togeth……続きを見る
著者:Joan Smith
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2011年12月01日
The full story of Britain's nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s has only recently begun to emerge. Here, for the first time, through interviews and eye-witness accounts from men who watched the mushr……続きを見る
著者:Gregg Herken
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2015年02月18日
Since the first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945, a close community of civilian experts, including scientists, academics, and think-tank intellectuals, has advised the American government on the pro……続きを見る
On the Brink of Nuclear War: Cuban Missile Crisis - Soviet Union, Cuba and the United States.
Note: This is a short history.
During the 1950s, the big fear was nuclear war. From the Soviet Union’s p……続きを見る
This professionally-formatted flowing-text ebook presents four major Air Force documents about the future of the service and its vital missions for national defense:
Air Force Global Strike Command ……続きを見る
Welche Akteure forcierten in der Bundesrepublik zur Adenauerzeit den Einstieg in die Atomkraftnutzung? Welche Motive standen hinter ihren Bemühungen? Und inwiefern zeitigen die damaligen Vorgänge au……続きを見る
U.S. security does not require nearly 1,600 nuclear weapons deployed on a triad of systemsーbombers, land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles……続きを見る
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this important work reviews the history of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB). The DNFSB an independen……続きを見る
When the Cold War ended, the world let out a collective sigh of relief as the fear of nuclear confrontation between superpowers appeared to vanish overnight. As we approach the new millennium, howev……続きを見る
How did Andrei Sakharov, a theoretical physicist and the acknowledged father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, become a human rights activist and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize? In his la……続きを見る
著者:Ben Bova
出版社: Tor Publishing Group
発売日: 2011年04月01日
Star Peace (originally published in 1986) is a look at space warfare defense technology by novelist Ben Bova, the author of more than a hundred works of science fiction and fact.
At the Publisher's ……続きを見る
PO Box 500, London W2; the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous Secret Services hid: MI5. This book, based on previously secret sources, lifts the lid on Britains Secu……続きを見る
PO Box 500, London W2 the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous secret services hid: MI5. Drawing on previously secret sources, this book lifts the lid on Britains Secu……続きを見る
Desde las bombas en Hiroshima y Nagasaki tenemos una visión tenebrosa de la energía nuclear, que se refuerza cada vez que un accidente pone en riesgo a poblaciones enteras, como Chernobyl o Fukushim……続きを見る
著者:Stewart Ross
出版社: Britannica Digital Learning
発売日: 2015年05月01日
Written in British English, Hiroshima tells the story of how the Japanese port city of Hiroshima came to be the target of the world’s first nuclear attack.
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The story of U. S. nuclear testing between 1945 and 1963 is a vivid and exciting one, but also one of profound importance. It is a story of trailblazing scientific progress, weapons of mass destruct……続きを見る
Human experience with nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) warfare has been limited, especially in comparison to conventional forms of warfare. Our experience with nuclear warfare is confined to ……続きを見る
Almost from the moment in 1940 that Otto Frisch and Rudofl Peierls suggested, from their small office in the University of Birmingham, that an atomic weapon could be miniaturized and delivered to it……続きを見る
Most Americans believe that the Second World War ended because the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan forced it to surrender. Five Days in August boldly presents a different interpretation: that the ……続きを見る
The ramifications of the Manhattan Project are still with us to this day. The atomic bombs that came out of it brought an end to the war in the Pacific, but at a heavy loss of life in Japan and the ……続きを見る
著者:Joe Copeland
出版社: Joe Copeland
発売日: 2015年09月30日
Hiroshima and Nagasaki's survivors of atomic bombings have made it their mission to work for peace and nuclear disarmament, a quest they have pursued for 70 years even as they coped with health effe……続きを見る
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Air Force publication outlines the career of Air Force General Bernard Schriever, responsible for the development ……続きを見る
著者:Max Frankel
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2004年09月28日
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “[A] riveting retrospective examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis” (The Washington Times), from one of the giants of American journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Max ……続きを見る
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Marine Corps monograph deals with Saudi Arabia's Strategic Rocket Forceーthe "silent force" because it receives fa……続きを見る
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this U.S. Air Force (USAF) publication examines the subject of Anglo-American air power cooperation during the cold war……続きを見る
WHEN THE JAPANESE navy attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, it triggered a massive U.S. retaliation and a succession of incendiary bombardments. War is not Cool at all, Fools!, is a collection of poetry c……続きを見る
In the Preface, the author writes:
I initially proposed my research to look at START II levels and beyond, focusing on the question, "How low can we go?" As I witnessed President George Bush's unila……続きを見る