"Citizen's guide to making informed choices about nuclear technologies, energy, and weapons"--
background needed to make informed choices about nuclear technologies, introducing concepts that can be used for evaluating the claims of both proponents and opponents
This book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of nuclear weapons in its security strategies and the number of weapons in its arsenal.
This important new book presents a comprehensive review of practical alternative energy choices for the twenty-first century.
In "Nuclear Choices, physicist Richard Wolfson provides citizens with the background they need to make informed choices about the nuclear technologies that provide a substantial portion of our electrical energy, help airlines detect ...
The author reviews the history of nuclear deterrence and calls for a renewed intellectual effort to address the relevance of concepts such as first strike, escalation, extended deterrence, and other Cold War-era strategies in today's ...
But, as Brookings scholars Steven Pifer and Michael O'Hanlon argue in The Opportunity, arms control can address some key security challenges facing Washington today and enhance both American and global security.
This is one of the most challenging and wide-ranging books of any kind about our modern world.
This two-volume set is the output from an extensive research project focused on developing the first forecasting model for nuclear proliferation.
Nuclear Logics examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them. Looking closely at nine cases in East Asia and the Middle East, Etel Solingen finds two distinct regional patterns.
1 D. Reynolds , Britannia Overruled , Longman , London , 1991 , p . 18 . 2 C. Barnett , The Collapse of British Power , Eyre Methuen , London , 1972 , p . 593 . 3 Quoted by A. Cyr , A British Foreign Policy and the Atlantic Area : The ...