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  • af Henry D. Smyth
    317,95 kr.

    An exploration of how atomic energy was deployed for military purposes, this text traces the administrative history of the topic and the problems and issues faced as the project became a reality.

  • - Hiroshima and Its Legacies, Third Edition
    af Martin J. Sherwin
    274,95 kr.

    This book is an updated edition of the classic history of the development of the American atomic bomb, the decision to use it against Japan, and the origins of U.S. atomic diplomacy toward the Soviet Union.

  • - Reappraisals
     
    371,95 kr.

    State-of-the-art reinterpretations of the reasons for Japan's decision to surrender, by distinguished historians of differing national perspectives and differing views.

  • - Nuclear Diplomacy, 1964-1970
    af David James Gill
    810,95 kr.

    The book explores how economic, political, and strategic considerations shaped British nuclear diplomacy during Prime Minister Harold Wilson's first two terms of office (1964-1970).

  • - Myths versus Reality
    af Sheldon M. Stern
    253,95 - 1.161,95 kr.

    This book completely transforms our understanding of the actual roles that each of the principal EXCOMM members played in the decision making process that led to a peaceful resolution of the Cuban missile crisis.

  • - Eisenhower and the Discourse of National Insecurity
    af Ira Chernus
    862,95 kr.

    Apocalypse Management explains Dwight Eisenhower's eight years of self-defeating cold war policies by analyzing the pattern of Eisenhower's private and public discourse, a pattern that still dominates U.S. foreign policy, keeping us in the same state of national insecurity that marked the Eisenhower era.

  • - A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971-Present
    af Lawrence S. Wittner
    367,95 kr.

    Toward Nuclear Abolition presents the inspiring, dramatic story of how citizen activists helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.

  • - John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings
    af Sheldon M. Stern
    388,95 kr.

    The first and only comprehensive narrative account of the secret Cuban missile crisis ExComm meetings, by the first historian to hear the tapes of every secretly recorded discussion.

  • - Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bomb to SDI. Revised and Expanded Edition
    af Gregg Herken
    381,95 - 1.684,95 kr.

    This book is a history of the complex relations between scientific advisors, primarily physicists, and U.S. presidents in their role as decision makers about nuclear weapons and military strategy.

  • - The Life of James Franck
    af Jost Lemmerich
    1.072,95 kr.

    "Originally published in German under the title Aufrecht im Sturm der Zeit: Der Physiker James Franck, 1882-1964."

  • af Benjamin P. Greene
    971,95 kr.

    Based on extensive research in government archives and private papers, this book analyzes the secret debate within the Eisenhower administration over the pursuit of a nuclear test-ban agreement.

  • af Alexander Vucinich
    1.037,95 kr.

    This book traces the historical trajectory of one of the most momentous confrontations in the intellectual life of the Soviet Union the conflict between Einstein s theory of relativity and official Soviet ideology embodied in dialectical materialism.

  • - National Security, the Truman Administration, and the Cold War
    af Melvyn P. Leffler
    539,95 kr.

    This is the most comprehensive history to date of the Truman Administration's progressive embroilment in the cold war, and it presents a stunning new interpretation of U.S. national security policy during the formative stages of the Soviet-American rivalry. Illustrated with 15 halftones and 10 maps.

  • - Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb
    af Herbert F. York
    231,95 - 442,95 kr.

    This volume looks at the technical, strategic, and human aspects of the debate that led to the decision to build the first hydrogen bomb. Based on participants experience of "Project Superbomb", and declassified papers the book explains the background to this acceleration of the nuclear arms race.

  • - Reappraisals
     
    1.577,95 kr.

    State-of-the-art reinterpretations of the reasons for Japan's decision to surrender, by distinguished historians of differing national perspectives and differing views.

  • - Anglo-American Intelligence and the Soviet Bomb
    af Michael S. Goodman
    810,95 kr.

    Based on previously unavailable sources, this book reveals the Anglo-American intelligence effort to penetrate the most secret domain of the Soviet government-its nuclear weapons program.

  • af Jonathan Schell
    352,95 - 542,95 kr.

    These two books, which helped focus national attention on the movement for a nuclear freeze, are published in one volume.

  • - Letters and Recollections
     
    317,95 kr.

    Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) is one of the few American scientists who have become public and controversial figures in the 20th century. This book aims to add a new dimension to the Oppenheimer story by offering a look at the private man behind the public figure.

  • - President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953
    af Arnold A. offner
    727,95 kr.

    A provocative reassessment of President Truman's profound influence on US foreign policy and the Cold War. The author contends that throughout his presidency, Truman remained a parochial nationalist who lacked the vision and leadership to move the United States away from conflict.

  • af Fred Kaplan
    317,95 kr.

    This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a chapter in American political and military history never before revealed.

  • - Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement
    af Vincent J. Intondi
    245,95 - 1.170,95 kr.

  • - Volume One, One World or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953
    af Lawrence S. Wittner
    980,95 kr.

    This is the opening volume in a comprehensive history of the global movement against nuclear weapons. Ranging from the prophetic warning of H.G. Wells in 1913 to the H-Bomb controversy of the 1950s, it tells the story of the emergence of popular efforts to save humanity from nuclear destruction.

  • - A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement
    af Lawrence S. Wittner
    272,95 - 1.235,95 kr.

    Confronting the Bomb tells the dramatic, inspiring story of how citizen activism helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.

  • - Inside the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis
    af Sheldon M. Stern
    199,95 - 837,95 kr.

    The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in American history. In this dramatic and succinct narrative, Sheldon M. Stern enables the reader to follow the often harrowing twists and turns of the crisis.

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