Dictionary of 20th-Century History
New York: Prentice Hall, 1990. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 444 p. More
New York: Prentice Hall, 1990. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. 444 p. More
New York: Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2007. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated] Rare limited softcover printing issued before publication. Trade paperback. [12], 310, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Rare limited softcover printing issued before publication ["Advance Reader's Edition Not for Sale" stated on front cover]. Substantial amount of ink underlining, comments and other marks. In Red Moon Rising, Matthew Brzezinski recounts the dramatic behind-the-scenes story of the fierce battles on earth that preceded and followed the launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957. He takes us inside the Kremlin, the White House, secret military facilities, deep-cover safe houses, and the halls of Congress to bring to life the Russians and Americans who feared and distrusted their compatriots at least as much as their superpower rivals. Drawing on original interviews and new documentary sources, Brzezinski tells a story rich in the paranoia of the time. The combatants include three U.S. presidents, survivors of the gulag, corporate chieftains, ambitious apparatchiks, rehabilitated Nazis, and a general who won the day by refusing to follow orders. The true story of the birth of the space age has never been told in such dramatic detail, and Red Moon Rising brings it vividly and memorably to life. More
New York: Saturday Review Press, 1974. First American Edition. 24 cm, 347, ink notation on front endpaper, highlighting and underlining on a few pages, some wear to DJ edges. More
Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1994. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xvii, [1], 83, [3] pages. Footnotes. Tables. Figure. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Glenn Buchan was the Associate Program Director for C3I/Space systems in Project AIR FORCE. He joined RAND as a research staff member in the Defense Planning and Analysis Department in 1984. His research has spanned a wide range of defense topics. In the area of strategic and nuclear planning, he has constructed war plans and evaluated force interactions, studied arms control verification issues and implications of various weapon systems on arms control, and analyzed Soviet strategy. His research has also focused on nuclear and conventional uses of heavy bombers. He led a major RAND study on the future structure of the U.S. heavy bomber force, focusing heavily on a range of potential applications for the B-2 bomber. More
Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2003. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xxiv, 128 pages. Acronyms. Footnotes. Tables. Figures. References. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Corner of page 33/34 creased. Glenn Buchan was the Associate Program Director for C3I/Space systems in Project AIR FORCE. He joined RAND as a research staff member in the Defense Planning and Analysis Department in 1984. His research has spanned a wide range of defense topics. In the area of strategic and nuclear planning, he has constructed war plans and evaluated force interactions, studied arms control verification issues and implications of various weapon systems on arms control, and analyzed Soviet strategy. His research has also focused on nuclear and conventional uses of heavy bombers. He led a major RAND study on the future structure of the U.S. heavy bomber force, focusing heavily on a range of potential applications for the B-2 bomber. More
New York: Random House, 1959. 330, illus., tables, chap notes, app, glossary, index, r bd weak, fr bd bent, marker ins fr flylf, bds scuffed & lettering faded. More
Washington, DC: American Enterprise Inst. 1972. 87, notes, DJ somewhat worn and soiled. More
Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, 2017. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Trade paperback. Glued binding. 151, [1] pages. Illustrations (Figure, Table). Notes. Cover has some wear and soiling. Strategic Studies Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal sponsored by the United States Air Force covering issues related to national and international security. Published by Air University Press, the SSQ explores strategic issues of current and continuing interest to the United States Department of Defense and US international partners. New editions are released on the first day of March, June, September, and December. In early 2017, the journal launched an online news talk show, "Issues and Answers," with interviews and discussion panels of United States Department of Defense subject matter experts and outside academics. More
Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, 2017. NPR Special Edition. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Trade paperback. Glued binding. 139, [1] pages. Illustrations (Tables). Notes. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Strategic Studies Quarterly is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal sponsored by the United States Air Force covering issues related to national and international security. Published by Air University Press, the SSQ explores strategic issues of current and continuing interest to the United States Department of Defense and US international partners. New editions are released on the first day of March, June, September, and December. In early 2017, the journal launched an online news talk show, "Issues and Answers," with interviews and discussion panels of United States Department of Defense subject matter experts and outside academics. A key content item is an Interview with General John E. Hyten, Commander, USSTRATCOM. Nuclear Posture review and Missile Defense, Modernization, Arms Control are discussed. More
London: Inst. for Strategic Studies, 1985. 35, wraps, tables, notes. More
New York: Random House, 1969. First Edition. First Printing. 22 cm, 247, notes on contributors, index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ somewhat worn and soiled, rear DJ flap creased, some edge soil. More
Sandia Base, Albuquerque, NM: Headquarters Field Command Defense Atomic Support Agency, 1960. Defense Technical Information Center reprint 2001. Wraps, tape binding at spine. 168 pages. Illustrations. Downgraded from CONFIDENTIAL to UNCLASSIFIED. Mailing label on back cover. Contents include: Introduction, Theoretical Aspects of Experiment Design,Procedure, Results, Discussion, Conclusions and Recommendations, Appendix A Nomenclature; Appendix B. Inclined-Foundation Bearing Capacity, Appendix C, Computation of kd, Appendix D Pressure Records; Appendix E Field Instrumentation for Response Measurements of Dome-Type Structures under High-Strength Shock Loading and References. Numerous Tables and Figures. More
New York: Vintage Books, 1990. First Vintage Edition. First Printing. 735, wraps, bibliography, notes, index, highlighting & red ink notes & underlining to text, some wear to cover edges This book covers the fifty-year period from the discovery of fission in 1938 to the superpower summitry of 1988. Bundy gives particular atttention to the most dangerous confrontations of the two superpowers--Khrushchev's challenges in Berlin and the Cuban missile crisis. More
New York: Random House, 1988. First Edition. Second Printing. 735, bibliography, notes, index, red marker line to fore-edge, slight soiling and small scratches to DJ. More
New York: Council on Foreign Relations, c1993. First Printing. 23 cm, 107, Admiral Crowe was formerly Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Dr. Drell is a noted nuclear physicist. More
New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1993. First Printing. Hardcover. 23 cm, 107, footnotes, index, pencil erasure on half-title. Sidney David Drell (September 13, 1926 – December 21, 2016) was an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert. He was professor emeritus at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Drell was a noted contributor in the fields of quantum electrodynamics and high-energy particle physics. The Drell–Yan process is partially named for him. Drell was active as a scientific advisor to the U.S. government, and was a founding member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group. William James Crowe Jr. (January 2, 1925 – October 18, 2007) was an admiral who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as the ambassador to the United Kingdom under President Clinton. McGeorge "Mac" Bundy (March 30, 1919 – September 16, 1996) was an American expert in defense policy, serving as United States National Security Advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He was president of the Ford Foundation from 1966 through 1979. In 1953 as its youngest dean worked to develop Harvard as a merit-based university. He also served as a scholar in residence at the Carnegie Corporation. More
New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1980. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. A-1 to A-16, [2], 999-1217, A-17 to A-34. Occasional footnotes, Illustrations (some with color). Index. More
Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2006. Presumed first paperback edition. First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xi, [3], 340, [4] pages. Index. Foreword by William J. Perry. George Bunn (May 26, 1925 – April 21, 2013) was an American diplomat, lawyer, and nonproliferation expert. He drafted the legislation that created the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA), was one of the lead U.S. negotiators of the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), served as Dean of the law school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and spent the last two decades of his career at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Christopher Chyba is professor of astrophysical sciences and international affairs at Princeton University. His security-related research emphasizes nuclear weapons policy, arms control, and nonproliferation. Prior to coming to Princeton, Chyba co-directed Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). Chyba served on the White House staff from 1993-1995, serving on the National Security Council staff, and then in the National Security Division of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. In August 2009, President Obama appointed him a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). More
Cambridge, MA: Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. xiv, 163, [3] pages. Footnotes. Figures. Pencil erasure residue on title page. This study was prepared as part of the Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and was commissioned by The Nuclear Threat Initiative. Matthew Bunn is an American nuclear and energy policy analyst, currently a professor of practice at the Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. He is the Co-principal Investigator for the Belfer Center's Project on Managing the Atom. Before coming to Harvard, Bunn served as an adviser to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 1994-1996. Bunn directed the secret 1995 study on nuclear security from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). This study served as the basis for Presidential Decision Directive 41 (1995) which established U.S. government policies for securing nuclear materials. From 1992-1996, Bunn held a position as a study director at the National Academy of Sciences. He directed Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium and this study became the foundation for U.S. government policy on plutonium disposition. More
Place_Pub: Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2003. First? Edition. First? Printing. 231, wraps, illus., footnotes, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
Tokyo, Japan: Bunrindo Co., Ltd., 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 80, [16] pages. 103, [1] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Map. Tabular Data. Minor sticker residue on back cover. TEXT IS LARGELY IN JAPANESE. No. 31 in this Famous Airplanes of the World series. Jeff Ethell Color Archives furnished many of the color images for the series, "Famous Airplanes of the World" More
Arlington, VA: Air Force Association, Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, 2017. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [4], 56 pages. Illustrations (color). Endnotes. Major General (retired) Roger Burg is the President of O’Malley Burg Consulting, LLC, a San Antonio based company that specializes in connecting industry with opportunity in the defense and government sectors in San Antonio, Texas. Their client base includes cybersecurity, information technology and aerospace companies active in Washington, D.C. and connected in the San Antonio defense sector. General Burg serves on the Strategic Command Advisory Group, a federally-chartered advisory group which provides advice and analysis on the command’s broad strategic missions. General Burg retired from active duty in September 2010 after 32 years of service in the Air Force. He commanded ICBM and space units for 15 years, including squadron, group, vice wing, wing and Numbered Air Force. He also served in significant national security and international affairs positions at the White House, the Joint Staff, the Air Staff, US Strategic Command, US Space Command, and Strategic Air Command. His final active duty position was commanding 20th Air Force, responsible for 10,000 airmen, three operational bases, and 500 deployed ICBMs. More
Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Quarto, 29 and 3 pages of the covers. Wraps. Color Illustrations. Figures. Tables. Charts. The Laboratory has a proud history and heritage of more than 70 years of science and innovation. The people at the Laboratory work on advanced technologies to provide the best scientific and engineering solutions to the nation's most crucial security challenges. The primary responsibility of the Laboratory is assuring the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent. Though the world is rapidly changing, this essential responsibility remains the core mission. The Laboratory was established in 1943 as site Y of the Manhattan Project for a single purpose: to design and build an atomic bomb. It took just 20 months. On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site on the Alamogordo bombing range. Under the scientific leadership of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the military direction of General Leslie R. Groves, scientists at the Laboratory had successfully weaponized the atom. Hitler was defeated in Europe, but the Japanese Empire continued to wage an aggressive Pacific war. So President Harry S. Truman chose to employ atomic bombs in an effort to end WWII. Little Boy, a uranium gun-type weapon, was used against Hiroshima; Fat Man, an implosion plutonium bomb, was dropped on Nagasaki. An invasion of the Japanese home islands proved unnecessary, thus sparing thousands of American and Japanese lives. More
Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2006. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Quarto, 28 including the covers. Wraps. Color Illustrations. Figures. Tables. Charts. The Laboratory has a proud history and heritage of more than 70 years of science and innovation. The people at the Laboratory work on advanced technologies to provide the best scientific and engineering solutions to the nation's most crucial security challenges. The primary responsibility of the Laboratory is assuring the safety and reliability of the nation's nuclear deterrent. Though the world is rapidly changing, this essential responsibility remains the core mission. The Laboratory was established in 1943 as site Y of the Manhattan Project for a single purpose: to design and build an atomic bomb. It took just 20 months. On July 16, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb was detonated 200 miles south of Los Alamos at Trinity Site on the Alamogordo bombing range. Under the scientific leadership of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the military direction of General Leslie R. Groves, scientists at the Laboratory had successfully weaponized the atom. Hitler was defeated in Europe, but the Japanese Empire continued to wage an aggressive Pacific war. So President Harry S. Truman chose to employ atomic bombs in an effort to end WWII. Little Boy, a uranium gun-type weapon, was used against Hiroshima; Fat Man, an implosion plutonium bomb, was dropped on Nagasaki. An invasion of the Japanese home islands proved unnecessary, thus sparing thousands of American and Japanese lives. More
New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, [1967]. First Printing. 24 cm, 351, minor crumpling at bottom of spine. More