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Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory
Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest
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CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295752556
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Housewives, hard hats, and an Ohio town?s restoration of the radioactive wasteland in its backyardIn 1984, a uranium leak at Ohio?s outdated Fernald Feed Materials Production Center highlighted the...
Resisting the Nuclear
Art and Activism across the Pacific
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CA$48.00
ISBN: 9780295752341
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: University of Washington Press
A transpacific tour of nuclear humanitiesFrom 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...
Nuclear Flashpoint
The War Over Kashmir
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CA$36.95
ISBN: 9780745346168
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Pluto Press
An alternative account of the Kashmir conflict centring the voices of the Kashmiris
One Sunny Day
A Child's Memories of Hiroshima
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CA$36.95
ISBN: 9780870712333
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Oregon State University Press
"Every year when the days begin to stretch and the penetrating heat of summer rises to a scorching point, I am brought back to one sunny day in a faraway land. I was a young child waiting for my mother to come home. On that day, however, the sun and the earth melted together. My mother would not come home. . . ."
Hideko was ten years old when the atomic bomb devastated her home in Hiroshima. In this eloquent and moving narrative, she recalls her life before the bomb, the explosion itself, and the influence of that trauma upon her subsequent life in Japan and the United States. Her years in America have given her unusual insights into the relationship between Japanese and American cultures and the impact of Hiroshima on our lives.
This new edition includes two expanded chapters and revisions throughout. A new...
The First Atomic Bomb
The Trinity Site in New Mexico
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CA$81.95
ISBN: 9781496232977
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Janet Farrell Brodie explores the Trinity test and those whose contributions have rarely, if ever, been discussed-the men and women who constructed, served, and witnessed the first test-as well as the downwinders who suffered the consequences of the radiation.
Regional Pathways to Nuclear Nonproliferation
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CA$44.95
ISBN: 9780820364926
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
The contemporary nuclear landscape is rife with challenges. Stagnated progress in disarmament, widespread modernization plans, and emergent proliferation pathways are contributing to the risk of catastrophe....
Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons
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CA$44.95
ISBN: 9780820364834
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Recent discoveries in psychology and neuroscience have improved our understanding of why our decision making processes fail to match standard social science assumptions about rationality. As researchers...
The Fragile Balance of Terror
Deterrence in the New Nuclear Age
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CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781501767166
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: Cornell University Press
In The Fragile Balance of Terror, the foremost experts on nuclear policy and strategy offer insight into an era rife with more nuclear powers. Some of these new powers suffer domestic instability, others...
Inheriting the Bomb
The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine
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CA$45.95
ISBN: 9781421445861
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: John Hopkins University
The collapse of the Soviet Union unleashed the specter of the largest wave of nuclear proliferation in history. Why did Ukraine ultimately choose the path of nuclear disarmament?The collapse of the...
Euromissiles
The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO
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CA$49.95
ISBN: 9781501766022
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: Cornell University Press
In Euromissiles, Susan Colbourn tells the story of the height of nuclear crisis and the remarkable waning of the fear that gripped the globe. In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers...
The End of Victory
Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age
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CA$57.95
ISBN: 9781501766121
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: Cornell University Press
The End of Victory recounts the costs of failure in nuclear war through the work of the most secret deliberative body of the National Security Council, the Net Evaluation Subcommittee (NESC). From 1953...
Atomic Bill
A Journalist's Dangerous Ambition in the Shadow of the Bomb
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CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781501765636
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: Cornell University Press
In Atomic Bill, Vincent Kiernan examines the fraught career of New York Times science journalist, William L. Laurence and shows his professional and personal lives to be a cautionary tale of dangerous...
Norman Cousins
Peacemaker in the Atomic Age
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CA$45.95
ISBN: 9781421443706
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: John Hopkins University
As the editor of the Saturday Review for more than thirty years, Norman Cousins had a powerful platform from which to help shape American public debate during the height of the Cold War. Under Cousins's...
Ploughshares and Swords
India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War
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CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781501765018
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: Cornell University Press
India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story...
The Hegemon's Tool Kit
US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
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CA$71.95
ISBN: 9781501764851
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: Cornell University Press
At a moment when the nuclear nonproliferation regime is under duress, Rebecca Davis Gibbons provides a trenchant analysis of the international system that has, for more than fifty years, controlled...
Inspectors for Peace
A History of the International Atomic Energy Agency
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CA$77.95
ISBN: 9781421443331
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: John Hopkins University
The first comprehensive, empirically grounded, and independent study of the history of the IAEA.The International Atomic Energy Agency, which sends inspectors around the world to prevent states from...
Cleaning Up the Bomb Factory
Grassroots Activism and Nuclear Waste in the Midwest
CA$41.00
ISBN: 9780295752556
Pub Date: June 2024
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Resisting the Nuclear
Art and Activism across the Pacific
CA$48.00
ISBN: 9780295752341
Pub Date: January 2024
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Nuclear Flashpoint
The War Over Kashmir
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9780745346168
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Pluto Press
An alternative account of the Kashmir conflict centring the voices of the Kashmiris
One Sunny Day
A Child's Memories of Hiroshima
CA$36.95
ISBN: 9780870712333
Pub Date: November 2023
Imprint: Oregon State University Press
"Every year when the days begin to stretch and the penetrating heat of summer rises to a scorching point, I am brought back to one sunny day in a faraway land. I was a young child waiting for my mother to come home. On that day, however, the sun and the earth melted together. My mother would not come home. . . ."
Hideko was ten years old when the atomic bomb devastated her home in Hiroshima. In this eloquent and moving narrative, she recalls her life before the bomb, the explosion itself, and the influence of that trauma upon her subsequent life in Japan and the United States. Her years in America have given her unusual insights into the relationship between Japanese and American cultures and the impact of Hiroshima on our lives.
This new edition includes two expanded chapters and revisions throughout. A new...
The First Atomic Bomb
The Trinity Site in New Mexico
CA$81.95
ISBN: 9781496232977
Pub Date: June 2023
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Regional Pathways to Nuclear Nonproliferation
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9780820364926
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9780820364834
Pub Date: May 2023
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
The Fragile Balance of Terror
Deterrence in the New Nuclear Age
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781501767166
Pub Date: January 2023
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Inheriting the Bomb
The Collapse of the USSR and the Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine
CA$45.95
ISBN: 9781421445861
Pub Date: December 2022
Imprint: John Hopkins University
Euromissiles
The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO
CA$49.95
ISBN: 9781501766022
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: Cornell University Press
The End of Victory
Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age
CA$57.95
ISBN: 9781501766121
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Atomic Bill
A Journalist's Dangerous Ambition in the Shadow of the Bomb
CA$44.95
ISBN: 9781501765636
Pub Date: November 2022
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Norman Cousins
Peacemaker in the Atomic Age
CA$45.95
ISBN: 9781421443706
Pub Date: October 2022
Imprint: John Hopkins University
Ploughshares and Swords
India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9781501765018
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: Cornell University Press
The Hegemon's Tool Kit
US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
CA$71.95
ISBN: 9781501764851
Pub Date: July 2022
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Inspectors for Peace
A History of the International Atomic Energy Agency
CA$77.95
ISBN: 9781421443331
Pub Date: April 2022
Imprint: John Hopkins University