Nuclear Weapons and the Challenge of Regional Rivalries
The End of Strategic Stability unpacks and examines how current and potential nuclear powers in different regions view strategic stability, the use or non-use of nuclear weapons, and the question of whether or not strategic stability is still a prevailing concept.
The Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant and the Texas Panhandle
Pantex was built during World War II near the town of Amarillo, Texas. The site was converted early in the Cold War to assemble nuclear weapons and produce high explosives. For nearly fifty years Pantex has been the sole assembly and disassembly plant for nuclear weapons in the United States. Today, most of the activities of the plant consist of ......
Nuclear Dialogues examines how a discursive process constructed the nuclear nonproliferation norm in international relations. Zoe I. Levornik's innovative new study traces the evolution of the norm from the dawn of the nuclear age to the present day and how it emerged and diffused through the actions of antinuclear activists and members of the ......
Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest
Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town's restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyard In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio's outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal. Casey A. Huegel tells the story of the unlikely ......
Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest
Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town's restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyard In 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio's outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the decades of harm inflicted on Cold War communities by negligent radioactive waste disposal. Casey A. Huegel tells the story of the unlikely ......
The Official U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Operations Field Manual is the newest edition of this critical U.S. Army field manual about the nuclear, chemical, and biological threats to our military members and civilians and covering a soldier's - or anyone's - use of protective gear and equipment to make himself and ......
From uranium mines on the Navajo Nation to craters caused by nuclear testing on the Bikini and Enewetak Atolls, the production and deployment of nuclear weapon technologies have disproportionately harmed Indigenous lands. Sustained exposure to radiation from nuclear weapons and waste affects many communities from Japan to Oceania to the US West. ......
International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War
During the 1980s, millions of ordinary individuals around the world mobilized in support of nuclear disarmament. Although U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev were not part of these grassroots movements, they too wanted to eliminate nuclear weapons. Nuclear abolitionism was a diverse and global phenomenon. ......
Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the marginalized Central Asian republic suddenly found itself with the world's fourth largest nuclear arsenal on its territory. Would it give up these fire-ready weapons-or try ......
