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  • The Fragile Balance of Terror

    Deterrence in the New Nuclear Age

    Edited by Vipin Narang, Scott D. Sagan ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    In The Fragile Balance of Terror**, the foremost experts on nuclear policy and strategy offer insight into an era rife with more nuclear powers.** Some of these new powers suffer domestic instability, others are led by pathological personalist dictators, and many are situated in highly unstable regions of the world—a volatile mix of variables.The increasing fragility of deterrence in the twenty ... Read more

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  • Ploughshares and Swords

    India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War

    by Jayita Sarkar ...
    India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear program during its first forty years. The book foregrounds the program's civilian and military features by probing its close relationship with the space program. Through nuclear ... Read more

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  • Tempting Fate

    Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents

    by Paul C. Avey ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Unpacking of the dynamics of conflict under conditions of nuclear monopoly, Paul C. Avey argues in Tempting Fatethat the costs and benefits of using nuclear weapons create openings that weak nonnuclear actors can exploit. Avey uses four case studies to show the key strategies available to nonnuclear states: Iraqi decision-making under Saddam Hussein in confrontations with the United States; ... Read more

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  • No More Nagasakis

    Interfaith Action toward a World without Nuclear Weapons

    Series series Distinguished Speaker Series
    In a speech delivered in Japanese at Cornell University, atomic bomb survivor Tomokazu Ihara describes the bombing of his home city of Nagasaki in 1945, traces his activism against nuclear proliferation, and issues an impassioned plea for a world without nuclear weapons.Cornell Global Perspectives is an imprint of Cornell University's Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. The works ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Reactions

    How Nuclear-Armed States Behave

    by Mark S. Bell ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Nuclear Reactionsanalyzes how nuclear weapons change the calculations states make in their foreign policies, why they do so, and why nuclear weapons have such different effects on the foreign policies of different countries.Mark S. Bell argues that nuclear weapons are useful for more than deterrence. They are leveraged to pursue a wide range of goals in international politics, and the nations that ... Read more

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  • Communist China VS Communist Russia!! Secrets You Never Knew

    The China-Soviet split (1960–1989) was the worsening of political and ideological relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War. In the 1960s, China and the Soviet Union were the two largest Communist states in the world. The doctrinal divergence derived from Chinese and Russiannational interests, and from the régimes' ... Read more

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  • Revisiting South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Program

    How did South Africa obtain nuclear weapons? How did the apartheid government dismantle this intensely secret program?In 1989, South Africa made the momentous decision to abandon its nuclear weapons, making it the first and still the only country that has produced nuclear weapons and given them up. Over thirty years, the apartheid regime had created a remarkably sophisticated capability to build ... Read more

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  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    This book is about the Cuban missile crisis.This book is a short description of this momentous event and the factors that led up to it.Before you start this book ask yourself these questions.What do you know about the Cuban missile crisis?Are you keen to learn about it?The book tells you about the Cuban missile crisis and describes its background, its historical context and the leading people ... Read more

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  • The Manhattan Project

    The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    by Al Cimino ...
    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 opening of a Pandora's box that has tested international relations.This book traces the history of the Manhattan Project, from the first glimmerings of the possibility of such a catastrophic weapon to ... Read more

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  • Learning from the Past: Soviet Deception in the Cuban Missile Crisis - Maskirovka Denial and Deception, Developing a Cover Story, Operation ANADYR, Getting the Cubans on Board, Disingenuous Diplomacy

    Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this report examines the use by the Soviets of denial and deception in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Moscow's surreptitious dispatch of nuclear-capable SS-4 and SS-5 surface-to-surface missiles to Cuba in 1962 upset the strategic balance in an alarming way. The resulting showdown—which the Russians call the "Caribbean ... Read more

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  • A la luz del relámpago

    Cuba en octubre

    by Adolfo Gilly ...
    Series series Vientos del Pueblo
    En los últimos días de octubre de 1962 el mundo estuvo al borde de una guerra nuclear cuando Rusia, entonces Unión Soviética, instaló cohetes en Cuba. Estados Unidos confirmó la existencia de los misiles el 16 de octubre, y el 22 de ese mismo mes el presidente John F. Kennedy lanzó un ultimátum: retirada inmediata o bombardeo. "A la luz del relámpago. Cuba en octubre" es una detallada crónica ... Read more

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  • The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962: A Case Study of the Tailored Use of Instruments of National Power - Missile Discovery, Foreign Policy and Fateful Decision, Cold War, The Showdown

    Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this report analyzes the foreign policy decisions that were made during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 using the Instruments of National Power (IOP) framework. IOPs are defined in U.S. joint doctrine as "All of the means available to the government in its pursuit of national objectives. They are expressed as ... Read more

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  • NSA and the Cuban Missile Crisis, The 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis - New Evidence that Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Cuban Arms Buildup, Cryptology, U-2 Findings, Navy Vessel Cordon

    Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this report tells the story of SIGINT in the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was one of the turning points of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. At that time the two superpowers came close to war, possibly with nuclear weapons; after it, both countries began to ... Read more

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  • 2016 President Barack Obama's Speech at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Japan About the World War II Atomic Bombing of August 1945: Honoring the Victims of the First Nuclear Weapon

    On May 27, 2016, American President Barack Obama visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in Hiroshima, Japan. He made a historic speech discussing the bombing of Hiroshima in World War II. He noted: Seventy-one years ago, on a bright, cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. A flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated that mankind possessed the ... Read more

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  • Operation Barbarossa : Story of Soldier

    The launch of operation Barbarosa theinvasion of the Soviet Union on the 22ndof June1941 was Germany's most desperate gambleof the second worldwar it was a gamble Hitler feltcompelled to take if his ambition of thecomplete subjugation of Europe were tobecome areality 4 fifths of Germany's total Army3 million troops were committed to themost appalling conflict in the historyofwarfare in little more ... Read more

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  • CODENAME CHEROKEE

    An excerpt from the bestselling memoir, THE ATOMIC TIMES

    CODENAME CHEROKEE(A 1500 word excerpt from THE ATOMIC TIMES: My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific Proving Ground)Cherokee was the second of 17 nuclear blasts in the 1956 United States H-bomb test series, Operation Redwing. Cherokee was typical of what happened in the South Pacific when over 1600 men (including me) became guinea pigs for the Department of Defense. The unstated motto at the Pentagon was: ... Read more

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  • How to Survive a Nuclear Attack – Gain The Knowledge & Be Prepared

    This book was written as a resource for an emergency response in case of a nuclear detonation. An interagency group of communications, radiation technical experts and doctors developed this edition which includes advised safety measures, key messages for the impacted community and the nation, anticipated questions and answers for the public in the immediate aftermath of a nuclear detonation, ... Read more

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  • Revitalization of Nuclear Powered Flight - Potential Air Force Development of Compact Fusion Powered Aircraft Propelled by Electric Engines, Incorporation of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) Technology

    This short report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - it is not a print replica, and thus it is suitable for all devices. Contents: Revitalization of Nuclear Powered Flight * 2019 U.S. Intelligence Community Worldwide Threat Assessment.There has been a lot of talk about the need to develop the third offset, of which human-machine integration ... Read more

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  • Is There Future Utility in Nuclear Weapons? Nuclear Weapons Save Lives: Strong Arguments Against Nuclear Disarmament, Historical Case Studies and Potential for Future Threats, Need for Deterrent

    This short but powerful report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction - it is not a print replica, and thus it is suitable for all devices. Contents: Is There Future Utility in Nuclear Weapons? Nuclear Weapons Save Lives * 2019 U.S. Intelligence Community Worldwide Threat Assessment.The debate over the future of nuclear weapons has become more ... Read more

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  • Atomic Inferno - Voice of Survivors: Traumatic Eyewitness Accounts from Hiroshima & Nagasaki

    Harry S. Truman, the president of the United States, and his military advisers were committed to using all available means to finish the war as soon as possible. Around 80,000 people were killed when the Little Boy atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on the morning of August 6 by the B-29 bomber Enola Gay. More than 40,000 people were killed by another atomic bomb codenamed Fat Man ... Read more

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  • The Naval Battle - What the U.S. Needs to Get Right

    by Hudson Owen ...
    A veteran naval blogger writes about compelling issues facing the U.S. Navy today and tomorrow. What size ships and how many of them do we really need? How vulnerable is the carrier battle group in waters infested with enemy subs and cruise missiles? How would we fight China or Iran? Is the Navy too politically correct? These and other issues are addressed in this timely 7,700 word essay. ... Read more

    $1.49 USD

  • WWII In The Light of Rising Sun : World War II From Japanese Perspective, The Other Side of The Coin

    Japanese Second World War commanders committed suicide, some were captured and executed, some went down with their sinking carriers. If you knew their stories, your perception about Japan may never be the same again. Japan's most decorated commanders of World War Two commiting sepukku - Japanese traditional suicide, battle-hardened Japanese Admirals going down with their scuttled ship, captains ... Read more

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  • Oppenheimer - The Atomic Intelligence : Inside The Brilliant Mind of Robert Oppenheimer, Father of The Atomic Bomb

    J. Robert Oppenheimer is known as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb". Oppenheimer was a great physicist and the head of the "Manhattan Project". It is such an irony to see that he was the protector and destroyer of the world. The use of the atomic bomb put an end to the Second World War, but its effects lasted for many generations. For the love of his country, he made the deadliest weapon wit... ... Read more

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  • Joint Doctrine for Operations in Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) Environments (Joint Publication 3-11) - Combat Operations, Health Service Support, Hazard Considerations

    This publication sets forth principles to assist commanders and staffs to plan for and conduct operations in which their forces may encounter the employment or threat of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and other toxic materials. These principles apply to joint, multinational, and interagency operations.The crises and conflicts that characterize the international security environment pose ... Read more

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