Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons write by Ward Wilson. This book was released on 2013. Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Expanded from an article that created a stir in foreign policy circles, this book shows why five central arguments promoting nuclear weapons are, in essence, myths.
Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons
Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons write by Ward Wilson. This book was released on 2013-01-15. Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Brilliant, original, and important—the best analysis yet of why nuclear weapons don’t work.” —Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb Nuclear weapons have always been a serious but seemingly insoluble problem: while they’re obviously dangerous, they are also, apparently, necessary. This groundbreaking study shows why five central arguments promoting nuclear weapons are, in essence, myths. It clears up such common misconceptions as . . . • Nuclear weapons necessarily shock and awe opponents, including Japan at the end of World War II • Nuclear deterrence is reliable in a crisis • Destruction wins wars • The bomb has kept the peace for sixty-five years • We can’t put the nuclear genie back in the bottle Drawing on new information and the latest historical research, Wilson poses a fundamental challenge to the myths on which nuclear weapons policy is currently built. Using pragmatic arguments and an unemotional, clear-eyed insistence on the truth, he arrives at a surprising conclusion: nuclear weapons are enormously dangerous, but don’t appear to be terribly useful. In that case, he asks, why would we want to keep them? This book will be widely read and discussed by everyone who cares about war, peace, foreign policy, and security in the twenty-first century. “Magisterial in its sweep, research, and erudition, yet written in a direct, unstuffy style, which makes it an easy read.” —Commander Robert D. Green, Royal Navy (ret.) “This slim, persuasively argued, tightly written book provides much food for thought and could make some readers radically change their perceptions about nuclear weapons.” —Booklist
India's Nuclear Bomb
India's Nuclear Bomb - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook India's Nuclear Bomb write by George Perkovich. This book was released on 1999. India's Nuclear Bomb available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Publisher Fact Sheet The definitive history of India's long flirtation with nuclear capability, culminating in the nuclear tests that surprised the world in May 1998.
Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation
Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation write by Allan S. Krass. This book was released on 2020-11-20. Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1983, this book presents both the technical and political information necessary to evaluate the emerging threat to world security posed by recent advances in uranium enrichment technology. Uranium enrichment has played a relatively quiet but important role in the history of efforts by a number of nations to acquire nuclear weapons and by a number of others to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. For many years the uranium enrichment industry was dominated by a single method, gaseous diffusion, which was technically complex, extremely capital-intensive, and highly inefficient in its use of energy. As long as this remained true, only the richest and most technically advanced nations could afford to pursue the enrichment route to weapon acquisition. But during the 1970s this situation changed dramatically. Several new and far more accessible enrichment techniques were developed, stimulated largely by the anticipation of a rapidly growing demand for enrichment services by the world-wide nuclear power industry. This proliferation of new techniques, coupled with the subsequent contraction of the commercial market for enriched uranium, has created a situation in which uranium enrichment technology might well become the most important contributor to further nuclear weapon proliferation. Some of the issues addressed in this book are: A technical analysis of the most important enrichment techniques in a form that is relevant to analysis of proliferation risks; A detailed projection of the world demand for uranium enrichment services; A summary and critique of present institutional non-proliferation arrangements in the world enrichment industry, and An identification of the states most likely to pursue the enrichment route to acquisition of nuclear weapons.
Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy
Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy write by Todd S. Sechser. This book was released on 2017-02-02. Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Are nuclear weapons useful for coercive diplomacy? This book argues that they are useful for deterrence but not for offensive purposes.
