This book examines the operational safety hazards for nuclear forces deployed on combat alert in Russia, the United States, and elsewhere. The volume provides new information on command and control procedures and deficiencies that affect the risks of accidental, unauthorized, or inadvertent use of nuclear weapons, particularly those in the former Soviet Union.
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<P>"A provocative collection."--David C. Unger, New York Times</P><P>Now available in paperback, Psychology and Deterrence reveals deterrence strategy's hidden and generally simplistic assumptions about the nature of power and aggression, threat and response, and calculation and behavior in the international arena.</P>
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This book, by a distinguished group of coauthors, critically evaluates the current policy of retaining and operating large nuclear arsenals. The authors explain the implications of shifting to small arsenals for further constraining anti-ballistic missile defenses, strengthening verification, and capping or reducing the nuclear arsenals of other world powers.
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Based on four years of extensive research, Atomic Audit is the first book to document the comprehensive costs of U.S. nuclear weapons, providing a unique perspective on U.S. nuclear policy and nuclear weapons. The authors track the development of nuclear weapons from the Manhatten Project of World War II to the present day, and assess each aspect of the program, including research, development, testing, and production; deployment; command, ...

Relying on recently declassified government records relating to postwar atomic research, Septimus H. Paul analyzes how the governments of the United States and Great Britain between 1939 and 1945 collaborated on developing the atomic bomb. Capitalizing on the availability of physicists and chemists who had fled Hitler's Germany, U.S. and British scientists were able to repeat within a few weeks the test of nuclear fission first performed by two ...

A gripping, authoritative account of the men, women, science, drama and intrigue behind the single most important event of the century: the discovery of nuclear energy and construction of the atomic bomb. 32 pages of black-and-white photographs. ...

In this award-winning book, Peter Bacon Hales tells the story of the Manhattan Project's three key sites: Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Hanford, Washington; and Los Alamos, New Mexico. Drawing from thousands of never-before-studied documents, Hales presents a graphic reinterpretation of these sites and the larger issues they represented: the dashes between ideals of obedience and freedom, efficiency and democracy. Out of these, Hales proposes, came a new ...

Foreword by Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, USA (Ret.) ...

The enormous effort--called the Manhattan Project--that produced the world's first atomic bomb was supposed to be the best kept secret of World War II. And the project's Los Alamos, New Mexico site, where the bomb was perfected, was supposed to have the tightest security of the project's other 37 installations across the United States. Even the vice president, Harry S. Truman, was kept in the dark initially until fate propelled him into the ...

"Mary Palevsky has thrown new light on the history of the atomic age by recording the thoughts and memories of leading actors in the drama before they are all gone." --Freeman Dyson, author of "The Sun, the Genome, and the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions<P>"The author's quest for insight into her parents' lives has genuine emotional appeal. She is sensitive and careful--ready to change her mind, reshape her approach. The result ...