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Terrorism Trap: September 11 and Beyond
by Michael Parenti  Publisher Comments A penetrating analysis of the hidden political, economic, and religious agendas behind the September 11 attacks and the war, with an emphasis on Afghanistan's history and the U.S.-led globalization process that has impoverished and angered much of the...
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The War Complex: World War II in Our Time
by Marianna Torgovnick Publisher Comments Marianna Torgovnick here argues that we have lived, since the end of World War II, under the power of a war complex—a set of repressed ideas and impulses that stems from our unresolved attitudes toward the technological acceleration of mass death...
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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
by Jennet Conant Publisher Comments They were told as little as possible. Their orders were to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and report for work at a classified Manhattan Project site, a location so covert it was known to them only by the mysterious address: 109 East Palace. There...
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The New Nuclear Danger: George W Bush's Military-Industrial Complex
by Helen Caldicott Synopsis Helen Caldicott looks at the links between politicians and the arms industry and warns of the incredible dangers inherent in allowing weapons manufacturers to dictate foreign policy, in a book designed to educate, alert and mobilize concerned citizens....
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Addicted to War: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism
by Joel Andreas Publisher Comments Reveals why the US has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country....
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How Much Are You Making on the War, Daddy?: A Quick and Dirty Guide to War Profiteering in the Bush Administration
by William D Hartung Publisher Comments Columnist Paul Krugman has described Bush’s melding of political hardball and economic favoritism as “crony capitalism,” while Senator John McCain calls it war profiteering. George W. Bush’s approach to military spending is a...
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You Back the Attack! We'll Bomb Who We Want!: Remixed War Propaganda
by Micah Ian Wright Publisher Comments This stunning, hilarious, and politically incendiary full-color poster book by U.S. Airborne Ranger-turned-dissident-comic-book-artist Micah Wright reworks classic American World War I and II propaganda into biting commentaries on war and pariotism for...
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Toxic Warfare
by Theodore Wi Karasik Publisher Comments A qualitative analysis of the threat posed to the United States by the use of toxic weapons....
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Perils of Dominance: Imbalance of Power and the Road to War in Vietnam
by Gareth Porter Publisher Comments Perils of Dominance is the first completely new interpretation of how and why the United States went to war in Vietnam. It provides an authoritative challenge to the prevailing explanation that U.S. officials adhered blindly to a Cold War doctrine that...
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Betraying Our Troops : the Destructive Results of Privatizing War (07 Edition)
by Dina Rasor Publisher Comments In this2shocking expos, two government fraud experts reveal how private contractors have put the lives of countless American soldiers on the line while damaging the nations strategic interests and its image abroad....
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Blank Check: The Pentagon's Black Budget
by Tim Weiner Publisher Comments Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles, this is a thorough, astonishing expose of the "Black Budget"--a 36-billion-dollar cache used by the Pentagon to fund its own agenda of top-secret weapons and wars....
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The Star Wars Enigma: Behind the Scenes of the Cold War Race for Missile Defense
by Nigel Hey Publisher Comments The year 1982 was a desperate time for the U.S. defense community. The United States had no effective system to protect itself completely from a Soviet attack with nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles, which the Soviet Union possessed in...
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The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer: And the Birth of the Modern Arms Race
by Priscilla McMillan Publisher Comments In a groundbreaking book that recasts the history of the Cold War, bestselling author Priscilla J. McMillan exposes, for the first time, the truth behind J. Robert Oppenheimers 1954 trial on charges of violating national security. Drawing on newly...
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Fatal Choice: Nuclear Weapons: Survival or Sentence
by Richard Butler Publisher Comments We continue to face a choice with respect to nuclear weapons – either to move safely toward their elimination or to remain their victim. A forty-year effort to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons is breaking down, and the likely acquisition of...
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The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush's Militarism
by Frances Fox Piven Publisher Comments One of the country's most celebrated social scientists contends that the war on terror served to shore up the Bush administration's political base and that politicians used the emotional fog of war to further their regressive social and economic agendas....
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Smuggling Armageddon: The Nuclear Black Market in the Former Soviet Union and Europe
by Rensselaer Lee Publisher Comments Smuggling Armageddon looks at one of the most important and troubling international concerns of the 1990s and beyond: the illegal trade in nuclear materials that has erupted in the Newly-Independent States (NIS) and Europe since the collapse of the...
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Sunken Treaties: Naval Arms Control Between the Wars
by Emily O Goldman Publisher Comments A hard-hitting critique of modern arms control theory that attempts to make it more relevant to the multilateral political world of the post?Cold War period....
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Gift of Time the Case for Abolishing Nuc
by Jonathan Schell Publisher Comments From the author of The Fate of the Earth, a stirring new call to the nuclear age. When Jonathan Schell's monumental best-seller The Fate of the Earth was published in 1981, it was hailed by The New York Times as "an event of profound historical...
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On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site
by Michele Sten Gerber Publisher Comments "On the Home Front" is the only comprehensive history of the Hanford Nuclear Site, America's most notorious plutonium production facility. Located in southeastern Washington State, the Hanford Site produced most of the plutonium used in the atomic bombs...
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Living with Landmines: From International Treaty to Reality
by Bill Purves Publisher Comments Bill Purvesis the author of the well-known trilogy about life in modern China in an era of economic change: Barefoot in the Boardroom: Venture and Misadventure in the People's Republic of China, 3 Chinasand China On the Lam: On Foot Across the People's...
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