Nuclear Proliferation The Military Industrial Complex And The Arms Race

Author : Kaitlyn Duling
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502627247

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Nuclear Proliferation, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Arms Race by Kaitlyn Duling Pdf

The Cold War introduced new military arsenal, weapons of mass destruction. The United States and the Soviet Union invested billions of dollars into the development of sophisticated and destructive weapons. Creating a dangerous military arsenal became another objective. After the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, the United States tested the first hydrogen bomb. This book examines how nuclear proliferation and the arms race influenced the trajectory of the Cold War.

Author : S. Mike Pavelec
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598841886

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The Military-Industrial Complex and American Society by S. Mike Pavelec Pdf

The first complete reference on the military-industrial complex, from its Cold War era expansion to the present. The Military-Industrial Complex and American Society addresses the broad subject of the political economy of defense research and its wide-reaching effects on many aspects of American life. Ranging from the massive arms buildup of the Cold War to the influx of private contractors and corporations such as Halliburton, it reveals the interconnectedness of the military, industry, and government within the history of this public/private enterprise. The Military-Industrial Complex and American Society offers over 100 alphabetically organized entries on a wide of range of significant research bodies and government agencies, as well as important people, events, and technologies. In addition, a series of essays looks at such essential topics as propaganda, think tanks, defense budgeting, the defense industry and the economy, and the breakdown of the military-industrial complex in Vietnam. With this work, students, policymakers, and other interested readers will understand the ramifications of the relationships between industry, scientific and technological communities, the government, and society.

Author : Gregg B. Walker,David A. Bella,Steven J. Sprecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X002436450

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The Military-industrial Complex by Gregg B. Walker,David A. Bella,Steven J. Sprecher Pdf

Thirty years ago Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his farewell address as President, warned of a -military-industrial complex;- a complex organizational system seemingly beyond the control of citizens and their elected government. With Eisenhower's ideas as inspiration, this book offers a collection of essays that examine various aspects of the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex and the farewell warning. The book reflects an interdisciplinary effort; essays come from such fields as history, economics, sociology, business, and communication."

Author : Helen Caldicott
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781595586612

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The New Nuclear Danger by Helen Caldicott Pdf

A global leader of the antinuclear movement delivers “a meticulous, urgent, and shocking report” on US weapons policy and the imminent dangers it poses (Booklist). First published in the wake of the September 11 attacks in 2001, The New Nuclear Danger sounded the alarm against a neoconservative foreign policy dictated by weapons manufacturers. This revised and updated edition includes a new introduction that outlines the costs of Operation Iraqi Freedom, details the companies profiting from the war and subsequent reconstruction, and chronicles the rampant conflicts of interest among members of the Bush administration who also had a financial stake in weapons manufacturing. Named one of the Most Influential Women of the 20th Century by the Smithsonian and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for her antinuclear activism, Dr. Helen Caldicott’s expert assessment of US nuclear and military policy is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the precarious state of the world. After eight printings in the original edition, The New Nuclear Danger remains a singularly persuasive argument for a new approach to foreign policy and a new path toward arms reduction. “A timely warning, at a critical moment in world history, of the horrible consequences of nuclear warfare.” —Walter Cronkite

Author : Sheldon Ungar
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271039183

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Rise and Fall of Nuclearism by Sheldon Ungar Pdf

Author : Helen Bury
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350159143

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Eisenhower and the Cold War Arms Race by Helen Bury Pdf

Under the growing shadow of the Cold War, President Eisenhower announced his 'Open Skies' initiative to Soviet, British and French delegations at the Geneva Summit in 1955. In a climate of intense fear and suspicion, this proposed system of mutual aerial inspection was dismissed by Khrushchev and the Soviet Union as nothing more than an 'espionage plot'. Nevertheless, Eisenhower campaigned for its implementation until the end of his presidency. Here, Helen Bury provides a new interpretation of Eisenhower's 'Open Skies' programme, arguing that it functioned as a corrective to John Foster Dulles' 'New Look' defence strategy - which relied on the threat of massive nuclear retaliation. A critic of the 'military-industrial' complex which was gaining power in American statecraft and which sought to expand military spending, Eisenhower aimed instead to safeguard the economic strength of America. Eisenhower and the Military-Industrial Complex is the first in-depth study of the Open Skies policy and essential reading for historians of the Cold War and the International Relations of the United States.

Author : Helen Caldicott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0553193848

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Missile Envy by Helen Caldicott Pdf

Author : Janet Billson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351308595

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Peace and the War Industry by Janet Billson Pdf

More and more people are demanding an end to violence as a means of arbitrating international demands and resolving problems between nations. This collection of essays brings social scientific evidence to bear on the question of the "inevitability" of war, and evaluates the potential for managing the international system in the interest of peace instead of war. The contributors discuss methods of lowering distrust among^nations; they consider whether war persists because it has become an economic necessity built into a "military-industrial complex."' They deal with implications of expansion of the military into civilian areas such as education, and into increasingly sophisticated technology such as the ABM Safeguard system. They discuss* the involvement of social scientists in the formulation of "peace" and "war" policy.Collectively, these essays present the most serious questions social scientists have been asking about problems of war and peace, and offer hope that the present international system, dangerous and appallingly costly as it is, may offer enough stability to give us time to transform it into something that bettet serves human needs.

Author : Lester R. Kurtz,Robert D. Benford,Jennifer E. Turpin
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013324374

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The Nuclear Cage by Lester R. Kurtz,Robert D. Benford,Jennifer E. Turpin Pdf

Author : Sheldon Ungar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Arms race
ISBN : OCLC:1194917412

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The Rise and Fall of Nuclearism by Sheldon Ungar Pdf

The radical changes in the Soviet bloc and the ending of the Cold War have made the sheer absurdity of the arms race transparent to virtually all observers. Yet none of the current theories of the arms race provides a coherent and systematic account of how, in the belated words of Time magazine, such a "pathology" developed in the first place. Moreover, none of these theories can readily address - much less explain - the rapid shifts in attitudes toward nuclear weapons that occurred at the start and at the end of the 1980s. While not denying explanatory value to bureaucratic, technical, political, and economic factors, The Rise and Fall of Nuclearism focuses attention instead on the cultural dimensions of the arms race. It traces the long-term secular changes in Western societies that made the faith in "nuclearism" possible to begin with; and it draws on sociological concepts to explain how such a misplaced faith accrued to nuclear weapons and why this faith eventually came undone. The concept of "moral panic" is central to the argument. Ungar shows that moral panics were precipitated by authentic surges of fear responding to perceived Soviet challenges to American nuclear supremacy; these panics provided the political leverage for large-scale nuclear buildups and made possible the growth of the military-industrial complex in the United States. Elite efforts to orchestrate panics, however, typically failed or backfired. The key to understanding the episodic nature of the arms race, Ungar argues, lies in the dynamic oscillation between nuclear worship, which viewed the "bomb" as the source of salvation, and nuclear dread, which conjured up images of vaporized cities and an end to civilization. In the concluding chapter he discusses what role nuclear fear - about proliferation, for instance - may continue to play in the post-Cold War world.

Author : Hugh Gusterson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816638608

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People of the Bomb by Hugh Gusterson Pdf

E.L. Doctorow suggested that in the years since 1945 the nuclear bomb has come to compose the identity of the American people. Developing this theme, Hugh Gusterson shows how the military-industrial complex has transformed public culture & personal psychology in America, to create a nuclear people.

Author : Andrew Cockburn
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839763656

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The Spoils of War by Andrew Cockburn Pdf

Why does the United States go to war?—a leading Harper’s commentator on U.S. foreign affairs searches for answers. A withering exposé of runaway military spending and the private economic interests funding the U.S. war machine—for fans of Rachel Maddow and Democracy Now! America has a long tradition of justifying war as the defense of democracy. The War on Terror was waged to protect the West from the dangers of Islamists. The US soldiers stationed in over 800 locations across the world are meant to be the righteous arbiters of justice. Against this background, Andrew Cockburn brilliantly dissects the true intentions behind Washington’s martial appetites. The American war machine can only be understood in terms of the private passions and interests of those who control it—principally a passionate interest in money. Thus, as Cockburn witheringly reports, Washington expanded NATO to satisfy an arms manufacturer’s urgent financial requirements; the US Navy’s Pacific fleet deployments were for years dictated by a corrupt contractor who bribed high-ranking officers with cash and prostitutes; senior Marine commanders agreed to a troop surge in Afghanistan in 2017 for budgetary reasons. Based on years of wide-ranging research, Cockburn lays bare the ugly reality of the largest military machine in history: as profoundly squalid as it is terrifyingly deadly.

Author : Nils Petter Gleditsch,Olav Njølstad
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015016950167

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Arms Races by Nils Petter Gleditsch,Olav Njølstad Pdf

A long tradition of theoretical and empirical work has been devoted to the question of the driving forces in the arms race since the 1960s. This book takes up the internal factors of arms dynamics, such as bureaucratic politics, interservice rivalry, and the military-industrial complex, as well as external factors such as interactive arms dynamics between the two superpowers. It also deals with the question of technological determinism - the ideas that what is technically possible will be done as opposed to the idea that `politics is in command'. Finally, factors in the international system affecting arms races are also examined, such as long economic waves and power transitions.

Author : David Hoffman
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780385532174

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The Dead Hand by David Hoffman Pdf

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that remain a threat today. Drawing on memoirs, interviews in both Russia and the US, and classified documents from deep inside the Kremlin, David E. Hoffman examines the inner motives and secret decisions of each side and details the deadly stockpiles that remained unsecured as the Soviet Union collapsed. This is the fascinating story of how Reagan, Gorbachev, and a previously unheralded collection of scientists, soldiers, diplomats, and spies changed the course of history.

Author : Sidney Lens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002220336

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The Day Before Doomsday by Sidney Lens Pdf

SCOTT (copy 1): from the John Holmes Library collection.