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The Medical Implications of Nuclear War

Fred Solomon,Robert Q. Marston,Lewis Thomas,Steering Committee for the Symposium on the Medical Implications of Nuclear War,Institute of Medicine
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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 : 44,8 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

The Bomb

Fred Kaplan
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Author : Fred Kaplan
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 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.

On Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century

Jeffrey A Larsen,Kerry M Kartchner
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Author : Jeffrey A Larsen,Kerry M Kartchner
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804790918

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On Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century by Jeffrey A Larsen,Kerry M Kartchner Pdf

These essays by nuclear policy experts provide “a speculative but serious and well-informed journey through a variety of scenarios and contingencies” (Foreign Affairs). Recent decades have seen a slow but steady increase in nuclear armed states, and in the seemingly less constrained policy goals of some of the newer “rogue” states in the international system. The authors of On Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century argue that a time may come when one of these states makes the conscious decision that using a nuclear weapon against the United States, its allies, or forward deployed forces in the context of a crisis or a regional conventional conflict may be in its interests. They assert that we are unprepared for these types of limited nuclear wars and that it is urgent we rethink the theory, policy, and implementation of force related to our approaches to this type of engagement. Together they critique Cold War doctrine on limited nuclear war and consider a number of the key concepts that should govern our approach to limited nuclear conflict in the future. These include identifying the factors likely to lead to limited nuclear war; examining the geopolitics of future conflict scenarios that might lead to small-scale nuclear use; and assessing strategies for crisis management and escalation control. Finally, they consider a range of strategies and operational concepts for countering, controlling, or containing limited nuclear war. “A series of trenchant essays that deconstruct a critical national security challenge that most of us wish did not exist. Assembling a star-studded cast of scholars, analysts, and policy practitioners, Larsen and Kartchner have produced some of the most important new thinking on an old topic.” —H-Diplo

How the End Begins

Ron Rosenbaum
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Author : Ron Rosenbaum
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416594222

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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.

Nuclear War Survival Skills

Cresson H. Kearny
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Author : Cresson H. Kearny
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781510702059

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Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson H. Kearny Pdf

A field-tested guide to surviving a nuclear attack, written by a revered civil defense expert. This edition of Cresson H. Kearny’s iconic Nuclear War Survival Skills (originally published in 1979), updated by Kearny himself in 1987 and again in 2001, offers expert advice for ensuring your family’s safety should the worst come to pass. Chock-full of practical instructions and preventative measures, Nuclear War Survival Skills is based on years of meticulous scientific research conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Featuring a new introduction by ex-Navy SEAL Don Mann, this book also includes: instructions for six different fallout shelters, myths and facts about the dangers of nuclear weapons, tips for maintaining an adequate food and water supply, a foreword by “the father of the hydrogen bomb,” physicist Dr. Edward Teller, and an “About the Author” note by Eugene P. Wigner, physicist and Nobel Laureate. Written at a time when global tensions were at their peak, Nuclear War Survival Skills remains relevant in the dangerous age in which we now live.

Nuclear War

Allan Morey
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Author : Allan Morey
Publisher : Bellwether Media
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781618916532

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Nuclear War by Allan Morey Pdf

Nuclear war became a reality when the United States dropped two nuclear bombs in Japan during World War II. Despite the devastating results, many countries still own nuclear weapons. This high-interest title explores how the world would end from a nuclear war. From blast waves and radiation to a nuclear winter, the detonation of multiple nuclear bombs would cause worldwide destruction. Features outline the possible chain of events and examine the fateful Fat Boy detonation. Discover the possibilities and preventative measures against nuclear war in this gripping book!

Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe

Noam Chomksy,Laray Polk
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Author : Noam Chomksy,Laray Polk
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609804558

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Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe by Noam Chomksy,Laray Polk Pdf

“There are two problems for our species’ survival—nuclear war and environmental catastrophe, ” says Noam Chomsky in this new book on the two existential threats of our time and their points of intersection since World War II. While a nuclear strike would require action, environmental catastrophe is partially defined by willful inaction in response to human-induced climate change. Denial of the facts is only half the equation. Other contributing factors include extreme techniques for the extraction of remaining carbon deposits, the elimination of agricultural land for bio-fuel, the construction of dams, and the destruction of forests that are crucial for carbon sequestration. On the subject of current nuclear tensions, Chomsky revisits the long-established option of a nuclear-weapon-free zone (NWFZ) in the Middle East, a proposal set in motion through a joint Egyptian Iranian General Assembly resolution in 1974. Intended as a warning, Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe is also a reminder that talking about the unspeakable can still be done with humor, with wit and indomitable spirit.

To Win a Nuclear War

Michio Kaku,Afterword by Axelrod,Daniel Axelrod
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Author : Michio Kaku,Afterword by Axelrod,Daniel Axelrod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Nuclear warfare
ISBN : 0921689071

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To Win a Nuclear War by Michio Kaku,Afterword by Axelrod,Daniel Axelrod Pdf

To Win a Nuclear War records as fully as we are likely to find what has gone on in the minds of American leaders and nuclear strategists on this awesome subject during these fateful forty years. It is an appalling story... This book compels us to re-think and re-write the history of the Cold War and the arms race."--From the foreword by Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General of the United States. To Win a Nuclear War provides a startling glimpse into secret U.S. plans to initiate a nuclear war from 1945 to the present. Based on recently declassified Top Secret documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, this book meticulously traces how U.S. policy makers in over a dozen episodes have threatened to initiate a nuclear attack. The book also documents the surprising reasons why the war plans were never carried out and discloses the deeper, hidden meaning of the Star Wars program.

The Dangers of Nuclear War

Franklyn Griffiths,John C. Polanyi
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Author : Franklyn Griffiths,John C. Polanyi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1979-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781487597924

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The Dangers of Nuclear War by Franklyn Griffiths,John C. Polanyi Pdf

This collection of studies is one of the most lucid and sober analyses of the dangers of nuclear war, which mankind is facing. Written by natural and social scientists, the book should be read both by statesmen and by the general public. Looking towards the end of the century it makes clear the growing dangers. Avoiding complacency on the other hand, and prophecies of doom on the other, it contains a message of hope and an appeal to wisdom.

The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States

Jeffrey Lewis
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Author : Jeffrey Lewis
Publisher : W H Allen
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0753553163

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The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States by Jeffrey Lewis Pdf

The 2020 Commission report on the North Korean nuclear attacks against the United States posits that there was a nuclear attack against the U.S. on March 21, 2020 by North Korea, and that a national bipartisan commission was created to investigate what and how it happened

The Doomsday Machine

Daniel Ellsberg
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Author : Daniel Ellsberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781608196746

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The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg Pdf

Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for The California Book Award in Nonfiction The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year List Foreign Affairs Best Books of the Year In These Times “Best Books of the Year" Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December Books List LitHub's “Five Books Making News This Week” From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day. Here, for the first time, former high-level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the remotest air bases in the Pacific Command, where he discovered that the authority to initiate use of nuclear weapons was widely delegated, to the secret plans for general nuclear war under Eisenhower, which, if executed, would cause the near-extinction of humanity, Ellsberg shows that the legacy of this most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization--and its proposed renewal under the Trump administration--threatens our very survival. No other insider with high-level access has written so candidly of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, and nothing has fundamentally changed since that era. Framed as a memoir--a chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges participating--this gripping exposé reads like a thriller and offers feasible steps we can take to dismantle the existing "doomsday machine" and avoid nuclear catastrophe, returning Ellsberg to his role as whistle-blower. The Doomsday Machine is thus a real-life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful--and powerfully important--book about not just our country, but the future of the world.

Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War

Paul Williams
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Author : Paul Williams
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846317088

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Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War by Paul Williams Pdf

Ranging across fiction and poetry, critical theory and film, comics and speeches, Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War explores how writers, thinkers, and filmmakers have tackled the question: Are nuclear weapons white? Paul Williams addresses myriad representations of nuclear weapons: the Manhattan Project, the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear tests across the globe, and the anxiety surrounding the superpowers' devastating arsenals. Ultimately, Williams concludes that many texts act as a reminder that the power enjoyed by the white Western world imperils the whole planet.

On the Brink

Van Jackson
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Author : Van Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108473484

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On the Brink by Van Jackson Pdf

Former Pentagon insider Van Jackson explores how Trump and Kim reached - and avoided - the precipice of nuclear war.

Nuclear War and Nuclear Peace

Yehoshafat Harkabi
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Author : Yehoshafat Harkabi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351502689

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Nuclear War and Nuclear Peace by Yehoshafat Harkabi Pdf

This book began as a personal effort to comprehend the effect of nuclear weapons on the current era and its international system. Nuclear weapons have not merely revolutionized the military sphere but havce also left their stamp on the world order. Knowledge of the basic principles of nuclear strategy has become a prerequisite to understanding world events. Consequently, no country can remain indifferent to nuclear strategy or can consider itself exempt from its implications. The very importance of the subject precludes the assumption of a narrow technical or military point of view. Political, historical, moral, and even religious implications must be considered.Nuclear War and Nuclear Peace serves as an introduction to the study of modern strategy within the framework of international relations, as well as a basic account for laymen to the intricacies of modern strategy and its ramifications. It deals with a wide range of problems: deterrence and its implications; surprise; and preemptive and preventative attack. The problems of quantities of nuclear weapons, limitations of war (conventional, tactical and strategic), and proliferation of nuclear weapons are also discussed. In the end Harkabi introduces alternate global approaches and the problem of coalitions in the nuclear era. By focusing on disarmament and arms control; peace in the shadow of terror; and stability of the international system and peace research he brings relevance to his study in terms of the current world climate.Many books and articles have been published on nuclear strategy. Most have been designed to formulate strategic policies to suit the needs of particular countries and influence their policy. Most books on nuclear strategy have appeared in the United States, with strategic prescriptions for the United States. This book will be of tremendous interest to anyone wishing to understand the major problems of our contemporary world from a global perspective.

American Ground Zero

Carole Gallagher
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Author : Carole Gallagher
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Nuclear weapons
ISBN : 9780262071468

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American Ground Zero by Carole Gallagher Pdf

One photojournalist's decade-long commitment, a gripping collection of portraits and interviews of those whose lives were crossed by radioactive fallout.