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Glory and Terror: The Growing Nuclear Danger
by Steven Weinberg  Publisher Comments Steven Weinberg, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, writes that America today "has an unprecedented opportunity to begin to escape from the risk of nuclear annihilation." But, he warns, President Bush is not only letting this opportunity slip away, he is,...
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The Jasons
by Ann Finkbeiner Publisher Comments In this spellbinding history, science writer Finkbeiner takes a provocative inside look at the elite scientists who have worked behind the scenes to influence American science and policy for half a century....
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Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantanamo
by Eric Saar and Viveka Novak Publisher Comments Inside the Wire is a gripping portrait of one soldier's six months at the terrorist detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — a powerful, searing journey into a surreal world completely unique in the American experience. In an explosive newsbreak...
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Congress and Defense Spending: The Distributive Politics of Military Procurement
by Barry S Rundquist Publisher Comments Since World War II, the U.S. government has spent more than $10 trillion on defense. Although everyone in the United States must pay taxes supporting defense contracts, ten states have obtained 75 percent of all defense contracts and expenditures. In...
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Surviving Terrorism How To Understand An
by Rainer Stahlberg Publisher Comments Survival expert Rainer Stahlberg offers this practical study of terrorism in today's world, its tools and tactics, its manifestations and consequences, and the many successful ways the average citizen can protect themselvs from these insidious threats....
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The Pentagon: A History
by Steve Vogel Publisher Comments The creation of the Pentagon in seventeen whirlwind months during World War II is one of the great construction feats in American history, involving a tremendous mobilization of manpower, resources, and minds. In astonishingly short order, Brigadier...
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Lobbying for Defense: An Insider's View
by Matthew Kambrod Book News Annotation Having served as Deputy for Aviation in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development, and Acquisition, Kambrod launched a second career as a defense industry lobbyist. In this work he draws on those experiences to give...
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Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War
by Judith Miller and Stephen Engelberg and William Broad From Powells.com In December 1997, the Pentagon decided to vaccinate all US military personnel against the anthrax virus. Puzzled by the motive and the timing of the decision, Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg, and William Broad, three seasoned New York Times...
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Imaginary Weapons: A Journey Through the Pentagon's Scientific Underworld
by Sharon Weinberger Publisher Comments The story of how a lunatic fringe science project became favored by Rumsfeld's Pentagon....
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Nuclear Rites: Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War
by Hugh Gusterson Publisher Comments "An extremely important work. . . . It demonstrates the power that ethnographic analysis can have when directed at an examination of our own society's central nervous system."--Faye Ginsburg, author of "Contested Lives "Essential reading for anyone...
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Spoils of War: The Human Cost of America's Arms Trade
by John Tirman Publisher Comments One of the driving forces behind the nuclear freeze movement of the 1970s and '80s, John Tirman is well-acquainted with the destructive consequences of the arms trade. In the spirit of Richard Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Tirman draws on...
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Nuclear Winter: The Human and Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War
by Mark A Harwell Publisher Comments From the reviews of this book: "Effectively summarizes the huge volume of postholocaust literature. . .the text is well written and the inevitable mathematical content is kept to a minimum. It fills a yawning gap in the literature by bringing together a...
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The US and nuclear deterrence in Europe
by David S Yost Publisher Comments The US has maintained nuclear forces in Europe in support of its security commitments to NATO since the early 1950s, although the number of weapons has been greatly reduced since the late 1980s. This paper examines why the Allies continue to regard US...
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Defense Addiction: Can America Kick the Habit?
by Sanford Gottlieb Publisher Comments Whatever happened to the post–Cold War “peace dividend?” Why does military spending continue to escape federal budget reductions? Why, despite the nearly universal desire to reduce government waste and budget deficits, is the United...
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Ecology of War & Peace Counting Costs Of
by Tom H Hastings Publisher Comments How do mobilization for war and the actual war effort affect the environment? How do ecological conditions encourage war? What are possible, non-violent solutions to the ecological- conflict dynamic? Ecology of War & Peace attempts to answer these...
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Retreat from Doomsday
by John Mueller About the Author John Mueller is professor of political science at the University of Rochester. His most recent book is Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph’s Pretty Good Grocery....
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The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
by Gar Alperovitz Book News Annotation Alperovitz (president, Center for Economic Alternatives) examines the fateful decision of August 1945 and concludes that the US did not need to deploy the atomic bomb to win the war. He shows that Japan was close to surrender and reveals that Truman...
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The Amateur Strategist: Intuitive Deterrence Theories and the Politics of the Nuclear Arms Race (Cambridge Studies in Political Psychology & Public Opinion)
by James Denardo Publisher Comments This book explores how the everyday person reasons about nuclear strategy....
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When the Pentagon Was For Sale: Inside America's Biggest Defense Scandal
by Andy Pasztor Book News Annotation Pasztor (The Wall Street Journal) draws on previously undisclosed grand jury testimony, wiretap transcripts, and interviews with federal prosecutors, Pentagon appointees, and convicted felons to reveal the extent of corruption in the defense industry...
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Varification 1996: Arms Control, Peacekeeping and the Environment
by J B Poole Publisher Comments This is the sixth volume in a series of annual reviews of the implementation of arms control and environmental agreements and of peacekeeping activities. Documenting developments in the field during 1995, including the indefinite extension of the Non...
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