Ending A Nuclear War

Author : Clark C Abt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429711589

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A Strategy For Terminating A Nuclear War by Clark C Abt Pdf

Avoiding a nuclear war, or ending one if avoidance fails, is an important but relatively unexplored aspect of nuclear doctrine. Dr. Abt examines the feasibility of antagonists' agreeing to exclude their open cities from nuclear targeting and to replace strategic bombardment with retaliatory invasion to create less of a hair[1]trigger deterrent. Critical net assessments by U.S. strategists and the effects of such a strategy on the Soviet Union and on U.S. allies are considered, along with problems implementation might pose. The author contends that both deterrence and the potential for limiting damage are strengthened by pre-war plans for a nuclear ceasefire and stalemate short of holocaust.

Author : Herbert Feis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400868261

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The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II by Herbert Feis Pdf

This book discusses the decision to use the atomic bomb. Libraries and scholars will find it a necessary adjunct to their other studies by Pulitzer-Prize author Herbert Feis on World War II. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Ron Rosenbaum
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416594222

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How the End Begins by Ron Rosenbaum Pdf

An alarming, deeply reported analysis of how close--and how often--the world has come to nuclear annihilation, and why we are once again on the brink.

Author : M. Bruce,T. Milne
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1999-07-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0333774825

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Ending War by M. Bruce,T. Milne Pdf

World-renowned political thinkers and scientists write on nuclear weapons and war in the twenty-first century. The contributors include Mikhail Gorbachev, who first declared 'A nuclear war cannot be won and must not be fought', Robert McNamara, US Defense Secretary at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam War; and Nobel Peace Laureate Joseph Rotblat, the only scientist to resign from the Manhattan Project, where the world's first nuclear weapons were produced.

Author : Stephen J. Cimbala,Joseph D. Douglass
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4234004

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Ending a Nuclear War by Stephen J. Cimbala,Joseph D. Douglass Pdf

If we are ever to fight WWIII, how do we end it if it should go nuclear? As an investigation of command structures, communications, a divergent attitude, this volume has merit. However, if nuclear war breaks out, deterence has failed and rationality is lost. To assume a rational conclusion to an irrational act is tragically humorous. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Robert Swindells
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994-12-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141928852

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Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells Pdf

An 'After-the-Bomb' story told by teenage Danny, one of the survivors - one of the unlucky ones. Set in Shipley, an ordinary town in the north of England, this is a powerful portrayal of a world that has broken down. Danny not only has to cope in a world of lawlessness and gang warfare, but he has to protect and look after his little brother, Ben, and a girl called Kim. Is there any hope left for a new world?

Author : Lawrence Rubin,Adam N. Stulberg
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781626166042

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The End of Strategic Stability? by Lawrence Rubin,Adam N. Stulberg Pdf

During the Cold War, many believed that the superpowers shared a conception of strategic stability, a coexistence where both sides would compete for global influence but would be deterred from using nuclear weapons. In actuality, both sides understood strategic stability and deterrence quite differently. Today’s international system is further complicated by more nuclear powers, regional rivalries, and nonstate actors who punch above their weight, but the United States and other nuclear powers still cling to old conceptions of strategic stability. The purpose of this book is to unpack and examine how different states in different regions view strategic stability, the use or non-use of nuclear weapons, and whether or not strategic stability is still a prevailing concept. The contributors to this volume explore policies of current and potential nuclear powers including the United States, Russia, China, India, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. This volume makes an important contribution toward understanding how nuclear weapons will impact the international system in the twenty-first century and will be useful to students, scholars, and practitioners of nuclear weapons policy.

Author : Gar Alperovitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 067106150X

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Atomic Diplomacy by Gar Alperovitz Pdf

Author : Stephen J. Cimbala,Sidney Waldman
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024922059

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Controlling and Ending Conflict by Stephen J. Cimbala,Sidney Waldman Pdf

This provocative and authoritative study covers all the major aspects of conflict termination before and after the Cold War. Cimbala and Waldman, together with prominent analysts, offer different insights into the key issues and military and political strategies to end and control conflict in a radically changing world. They define basic principles and consider intrawar deterrence and various ways to control and end all types of war in an age of nuclear proliferation.

Author : Stephen J. Cimbala
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B4233998

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Nuclear Endings by Stephen J. Cimbala Pdf

If a nuclear war between American and Soviet forces or the forces of their allies were to start, how would it end? This soberting analysis, one of the few published treatments of War termination, identifies the policies and strategic issues involved in the attempt to control and end a nuclear war should one ever start. The author presents both a comprehensive overview of the theory of war termination and a broad-based analysis of the specific aspects of the question. Throughout, the aim is to provide policymakers and students of military strategy with a tool for improved strategic war planning that emphasizes the importance of flexibility and durability rather than the current emphasis on damage infliction. Cimbala begins by discussing the compelling reasons for studying war termination, among them the potential deterrent value of such study. He then introduced pertinent issues in the literature of war termination, including the notion of an `agreed battle', escalation control, intrawar deterrence, and coercive diplomacy. The bulk of the study is devoted to a detailed discussion of specific aspects of nuclear war determination. Ih his concluding chapter, Cimbala integrates these aspects into a coherrent theory of nuclear war termination and assesses the potential implications of strategic defenses for American nuclear deterrence strategies.

Author : Fred Solomon,Robert Q. Marston,Lewis Thomas,Steering Committee for the Symposium on the Medical Implications of Nuclear War,Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309078660

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The Medical Implications of Nuclear War by Fred Solomon,Robert Q. Marston,Lewis Thomas,Steering Committee for the Symposium on the Medical Implications of Nuclear War,Institute of Medicine Pdf

Written by world-renowned scientists, this volume portrays the possible direct and indirect devastation of human health from a nuclear attack. The most comprehensive work yet produced on this subject, The Medical Implications of Nuclear War includes an overview of the potential environmental and physical effects of nuclear bombardment, describes the problems of choosing who among the injured would get the scarce medical care available, addresses the nuclear arms race from a psychosocial perspective, and reviews the medical needs--in contrast to the medical resources likely to be available--after a nuclear attack. "It should serve as the definitive statement on the consequences of nuclear war."--Arms Control Today

Author : Fred Kaplan
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982107307

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The Bomb by Fred Kaplan Pdf

From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war—and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises—from Truman to Trump. Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter,” takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s “Tank” in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command to bring us the untold stories—based on exclusive interviews and previously classified documents—of how America’s presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and just barely avoided nuclear war from the dawn of the atomic age until today. Kaplan’s historical research and deep reporting will stand as the permanent record of politics. Discussing theories that have dominated nightmare scenarios from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Kaplan presents the unthinkable in terms of mass destruction and demonstrates how the nuclear war reality will not go away, regardless of the dire consequences.

Author : George P. Shultz,James E. Goodby
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817918460

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The War That Must Never Be Fought by George P. Shultz,James E. Goodby Pdf

This book discusses the nuclear dilemma from various countries' points of view: from Japan, Korea, the Middle East, and others. The final chapter proposes a new solution for the nonproliferation treaty review.

Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479451210

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On the Beach by Nevil Shute Pdf

"On the Beach" is a 1957 post-apocalyptic novel written by British-Australian author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the northern hemisphere following a nuclear war a year previously. As the radiation approaches each person deals with their impending death in different ways.

Author : Barbara Rose Johnston,Holly M Barker
Publisher : Left Coast Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598743463

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Consequential Damages of Nuclear War by Barbara Rose Johnston,Holly M Barker Pdf

The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, was one of scores of cold-war nuclear tests that blanketed the nation with fallout. Johnston and Barker reveal the horrific history of human rights violations endured by the Marshallese, as well as their long struggle for reparations.