North Koreas Nuclear Cinema examines why and how North Korea has transitioned to an image-based nuclear power in the changing context of a post-Cold War world. What exactly is the North Korean nuclear threat? Why is North Korea enga...Loe edasi...
On 16 July 1945, the Nuclear Age began with the explosion of the first atomic bomb and the words of J. Robert Oppenheimer: Now I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds. While the threat of mutually assured destruction kept a lid on a...Loe edasi...
This is the definitive history of the Russian submarine program since WWII.Submarines emerged as a particularly terrifying weapon after WWII, in no small part through the application of nuclear propulsion and the development...Loe edasi...
The first comprehensive and exhaustive history of the design, construction and operation of Soviet nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs), with a complete and up to date analysis of accidents suffered by these vessels. This is the history of a grou...Loe edasi...
The Pentomic Army: The U.S. Army and the Nuclear Battlefield in the 1950s-60s by Robert F. Williams, describes the U.S. Armys ill-fated 1956–1962 Pentomic transition. This radical reorganization aimed for nuclear battlefield adaptability and institu...Loe edasi...
British Defence Policy and Nuclear War (1964) examines the reasons advanced to justify an independent British nuclear deterrent, as well as looking at the worldwide context of nuclear weapons and strategies. It also assesses whether the pol...Loe edasi...
Why did the Cold War erupt so soon after the Second World War? How did it escalate so rapidly, spanning five continents over six decades? And what led to the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Union?In this comprehensive guide to the most wid...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Kansas, ISBN-13: 9780700641352)
Cultural scholar John Wills takes readers on a cultural tour of Doom Town, USA, designed to be the model 1950s American city and destroyed by an atomic bomb on live television to educate Americans on the need to prepare for possible nuclear war...Loe edasi...
An impressive work…. Ku provides a comprehensive look at North Koreas path to acquiring nuclear weapons, as well as an insightful assessment of policy options for dealing with a nuclear-armed North Korea in the future. —Terence Roehrig, University...Loe edasi...
From Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature: a devastating human history of the Chernobyl reactor disaster, now in an emotive new translation.First there is the voice of the firefighter’s wife, w...Loe edasi...
An incisive exploration traces how antinuclear activists reshaped the discourse around nuclear weapons, turning established narratives on power into debates over peril. Their persuasive arguments swayed public opinion and policy, paving the way for...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300229448)
A groundbreaking history of nuclear weapons across the world, from their invention to the end of the Cold War How should we deal with nuclear weapons? The discovery of nuclear fission fundamentally changed the world order. Its power...Loe edasi...
Debunks the enduring myth that nuclear power is safe and green There is no silver bullet for the climate crisis—but that hasn’t stopped people searching. Seizing its chance, the nuclear power industry wants us to be...Loe edasi...
The Empire of Japan formally surrendered to the Allies on 2 September 1945, following the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While the fighting had ended, a new weapon had been unleashed onto the world stage that nations rushed f...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837052158)
Previously undocumented testimonies telling stories of love, laughter, adventure and activism from the Greenham Common Womens Peace Camp....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Europe Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781800618237)
This book shows how North Koreas nuclear programme is central to Kim Jong-uns strategy for survival and leverage, tracing its roots to the origins of the North Korean state and the evolution of its security policies under Kim Jong-il. It analyses...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: United Nations, ISBN-13: 9789211546903)
Eighty years on, the fading memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki intersect with new nuclear threats. Survivor testimonies preserved through digital archives, art, and storytelling create a living bridge to the past, emphasizing resilience and a renewe...Loe edasi...
Todd C. Robinson, E. Paige Reid, Stephanie A. Stapleton, Megan Dee, Robert Peters, Todd C. Robinson, Stephanie A. Stapleton, Alice Spilman, Kyle Balzer, Tyler Bowen...
What does it mean to be a responsible nuclear power in 2025? As strategic competition, and indeed great power competition, reemerged in the late 2010s and early 2020s, competing nuclear states increasingly employ the language of nuclear responsibilit...Loe edasi...
A remarkable account of the terrible climax of the Second World War in Asia, published to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.A Telegraph Book of the Year 2025A History Extra History Book of the Ye...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Michigan State University Press, ISBN-13: 9781611865608)
In 1938 Enrico Fermi was awarded the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work bombarding elements with slow neutrons. He failed to realize it at the time, but his bombardment of uranium likely split the uranium nucleus leading to the discovery of nucle...Loe edasi...
