3 edition of The Nuclear predicament found in the catalog.
The Nuclear predicament
Published
1989
by Prentice Hall in Englewood Cliffs, N.J
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Written in
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographies and index.
Statement | Peter R. Beckman ... [et al.]. |
Contributions | Beckman, Peter R. |
Classifications | |
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LC Classifications | U263 .N756 1989 |
The Physical Object | |
Pagination | xi, 308 p. : |
Number of Pages | 308 |
ID Numbers | |
Open Library | OL2033708M |
ISBN 10 | 0136255000 |
LC Control Number | 88009664 |
May 24, · The Growing Dangers of the New Nuclear-Arms Race. The Trump Administration’s push for more nuclear weapons is part of a perilous global drive . This book is the standard work on the history of attempts to cope with the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons. It has now been completely rewritten, drawing on a wide range of new research, and updated to take account of the period following the end of the cold war.
Required reading for any aspiring journalist, nuclear policy analyst, or anyone interested in the history, this short book collects essays originally published in the New Yorker written about survivors of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. Photo: Woman reading a book on Amazon Kindle 2 Wireless eBook Reader. Flickr / goXunuReviews (cc). Get print book. No eBook available. Our Nuclear Predicament. 3: History of the Nuclear Arms Race kilotons kinetic energy large number laser magnetic field material megatons meters mi/h miles military million MIRVs nations nuclear arms race nuclear explosion nuclear weapons nucleus number of neutrons occur overpressure particles percent.
This book deserves to be widely read, discussed and acted upon." - Shelf Awareness "In his recent book The Doomsday Machine, Daniel Ellsberg reports that the basic elements of US preparations for nuclear war have been little changed over the past three generations.. /5(13). Seven months later: Japan’s nuclear predicament. After a few minutes, a guard managed to open the jammed door, and Tataki hurried toward the parking stevefrithphotography.com: Evan Osnos.
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The digit and digit formats both work. Scan an ISBN with your phone Use the Amazon App to scan ISBNs and compare Author: Donna Gregory. This book reflects the changes brought to nuclear issues by the end of the cold war.
The Nuclear Predicament focuses on four main themes, allowing students to understand new nuclear situations—militarily, politically, socially, and ethically— as they arise. Appropriate for anyone with an interest in Nuclear Issues, American Foreign Policy Price: $ Jan 28, · Nuclear strategy is an exercise in absurdity that pushes against every moral boundary but that has likely contributed to the relative safety and stability of the contemporary era, during which Author: Justin Vogt.
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[Peter R Beckman;] Reflects the changes that the end of the cold war has brought to nuclear issues and examines the nuclear future. This book shows how nuclear weapons have changed the world - militarily, politically. Dec 05, · The Doomsday Machine is engrossing and frightening.” – Peter Steinfels, America Magazine “In the era of barbed insults regarded as precursors to nuclear threat, the warnings yielded by The Doomsday Machine have become required reading Daniel Ellsberg's title evokes Kubrick's film on purpose, a metaphor that culminates in his.
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Many years in the making, it’s a book that arrives at an opportune moment.". The Nuclear Predicament: Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century by Peter R Beckman, Paul W Crumlish, Michael N Dobkowski starting at $ The Nuclear Predicament: Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century has 1 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace.
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Who said that we need world government to meet the nuclear predicament. his second book asks. This new edition of a very current interdisciplinary book covers both technical material and social issues, to give readers of all backgrounds a sense of the overall implications of the arms race.
Weapons are the primary focus of the book, with the history of their development and nuclear politics included in the introductory chapters. There is a thorough discussion of global nuclear exchange. This is a list of books about nuclear issues. They are non-fiction books which relate to uranium mining, nuclear weapons and/or nuclear power.
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (). The claim of nuclear ownership crystallized as the main focus of Ukraine’s position by early The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported that Ukrainian-Russian nuclear negotiations were at an impasse because of principled differences on nuclear ownership and.
Books shelved as nuclear-war: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank, On the Beach by Nevil Shute, The Compound by S.A. Bodeen, Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien. Jan 30, · For decades, American presidents have found themselves in a similar predicament, as revealed with bracing clarity by “The Bomb,” Fred Kaplan’s rich and surprisingly entertaining history of how nuclear weapons have shaped the United States military and the country’s foreign policy.
It is the story of how high-level officials, generals. "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner blends personal recollections and historical analysis with a set of considered proposals for reducing the threat of apocalyptic war.
Many years in the making, it’s a book that arrives at an opportune moment."5/5. This book is an impressive tour de force. In a mere eighty-four pages the author tells nonexpert Americans most of what they need to know about our nuclear predicament—and tells it with lucidity, cogency, and quiet persuasion.
It is a vastly better book than the nuclear primer prepared by the Harvard experts, Living with Nuclear [ ]. “The USA and the Soviet Union each had the ability to annihilate the other. Therefore- in theory at least-neither of these growling superpowers would dare attack. Jan 25, · At almost exactly the same moment, a Stanford University physicist, science writer, and book publisher named Michael Riordan was readying another book about the .This list of nuclear holocaust fiction lists the many works of speculative fiction that attempt to describe a world during or after a massive nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, or crash of civilization due to a nuclear electromagnetic pulse.This book is a very important guide to understanding the events and processes occurring inside nuclear South Asia, and suggests important ways of thinking about other nuclear regions where states are embraced in protracted entanglements." —Robert Anderson, Pacific Affairs.