The Masters of Power
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, [1969]. First American Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 416, front DJ flap price clipped, gift inscription on flyleaf, DJ soiled and worn at edges, edges soiled. More
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, [1969]. First American Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 416, front DJ flap price clipped, gift inscription on flyleaf, DJ soiled and worn at edges, edges soiled. More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1993. First Edition. First Printing. 304, illus., index, few library markings to text, usual library markings to DJ, DJ in plastic sleeve. More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1993. First Edition. First Printing. 304, illus., index, rear DJ soiled. More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1993. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [3], 304 pages. Illustrations. Index. Foreword by Stewart Udall. Publisher's ephemera laid in. Michael D'Antonio is an American author, journalist, and commentator on CNN. He shared the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting with a team of Newsday reporters for their coverage of the Baby Jane Doe Case. He has written over a dozen books, including Never Enough, a 2015 biography of Donald Trump, and A Consequential President, a 2017 book on the Presidency of Barack Obama. His book Mortal Sins was a 2004 Edgar Award nominee. D'Antonio graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1977. He wrote for the Dover Democrat in New Hampshire from 1976 to 1977, and the Portland Press Herald in Maine from 1977 to 1983 before joining Newsday as a writer, where he worked from 1983 to 1990. More
Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2012. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [8], 258, [6] pages. Illustrations (most in color). Notes. Index. Boldly inscribed on title-page. Booksigning program from the Camarillo Las Posas Republican Women Federated from October 30, 2012 laid in. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Dinesh Joseph D'Souza (born April 25, 1961) is an Indian American political commentator, author, filmmaker, and convicted felon. From 2010 to 2012, he was president of The King's College, a Christian school in New York City. Born in Bombay, D'Souza came to the United States as an exchange student and graduated from Dartmouth College. He became a naturalized citizen in 1991. He is the author of several New York Times best-selling books, including titles on Christian apologetics. D'Souza has been critical of New Atheism. In 2012, D'Souza released his film 2016: Obama's America, an anti-Obama polemic based on D'Souza's 2010 book The Roots of Obama's Rage; the film was the highest-grossing conservative documentary film produced in the United States. In 2016, D'Souza released a documentary film and book, both entitled Hillary's America, which presented D'Souza's personal narrative concerning the Democratic Party; the film was the highest grossing documentary of 2016. More
Washington, D.C. Brookings Institution Press, 2003. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. vii, [1], 246, [2] pages. Inscribed by both co-authors on the free endpaper. Inscriptions read: To Steve--With Best Regards, Jim Lindsay; To Steve--With thanks for all your great work. Ivo Daalder. Topics covered include The Bush Revolution; George Bush and the Vulcans; Bush's Worldview; Building a Team; The First Eight Months; September 11; Onto the Offensive; The Bush Strategy; The Inevitable Showdown; The Iraq War; Who's Next?; and The Perils of Power. Also includes Notes, Acknowledgments, and Index. Ivo H. Daalder (born March 2, 1960 in The Hague, Netherlands), was President of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He was the U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) from May 2009 to July 2013. He is a specialist in European security. He was a member of the staff of United States National Security Council (NSC) during the administration of President Bill Clinton. James M. Lindsay (born November 29, 1959), is the Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations and a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy. He is also the award-winning coauthor of America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy and former Director for Global Issues and Multilateral Affairs at the National Security Council. In 2008, he was the principal author of a Department of Defense funded $7.6 million Minerva Research Initiative grant entitled "Climate Change, State Stability, and Political Risk in Africa." He is the author of a CFR blog on American foreign policy, The Water's Edge. More
Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2016. presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. ix, [1], 110 pages. Notes. Cover has some wear and curling. Toby Dalton is co-director and a senior fellow of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment. An expert on nonproliferation and nuclear energy, his work addresses regional security challenges and the evolution of the global nuclear order. Dalton?s research and writing focuses in particular on South Asia and East Asia. He is author (with George Perkovich) of Not War, Not Peace? Motivating Pakistan to Prevent Cross-Border Terrorism (Oxford University Press, 2016), which provides in-depth analysis of the conflict spectrum in South Asia. He also wrote (with Michael Krepon) A Normal Nuclear Pakistan and ?Beyond Incrementalism: Rethinking Approaches to CBMs and Stability in South Asia.? He co-edited Perspectives on an Evolving Nuclear Order and wrote ?South Korea Debates Nuclear Options,? (with Byun Sunggee and Lee Sang-Tae) and ?South Korea?s Search for Nuclear Sovereignty? (with Alexandra Francis). From 2002 to 2010, Dalton served in a variety of high-level positions at the U.S. Department of Energy, including acting director for the Office of Nuclear Safeguards and Security and senior policy adviser to the Office of Nonproliferation and International Security. He also established and led the department?s office at the U.S. embassy in Pakistan from 2008-2009. Dalton previously served as professional staff member to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, at the Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Seoul, at the National Bureau of Asian Research, and as a project associate for the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program. More
Bookman Publishing & Marketing, 2004. Trade paperback. [8], v, 422 p. Index. More
London: Brassey's for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1991. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 56 p. Notes. Glossary. More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. First Edition. First Printing. 411, illus., maps, suggested readings, index. More
Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2020. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 84 pages, including covers. Illustrated front cover. Illustrations (mostly in color). Acronyms. Key References. Contributors. The High Explosive (HE) Strategy in this document describes an achievable, yet forward-leaning program that advances new HE options for the future stockpile. IT is essential that the results derived from this strategy be available for application in the stockpile with the coming decade. The High Explosives (HE) portfolio comprises of over 100 high explosives development, testing and storage facilities. Some research and development activities within the HE portfolio include high explosive synthesis, formulation, characterization, radiography, large-scale production, and indoor and outdoor performance testing. Among the activities addressed in the strategy are synthesis and formulations. Explosive Compounds, Low-Sensitivity, Proton Radiography, Shock-induced Chemistry;, Explosive Manufacturing, Improvised Explosives, Theory and Model Development,Detonator Design, Explosives Initiation, Explosives Safety, Explosives Characterization, and Infrastructure. More
Santa Monica, CA: The RAND Corporation, 1985. First? Edition. First? Printing. 28 cm, 117, wraps, illus., footnotes, chronology of anti-nuclear protests, light pencil underlining & marginal marks in Summary section. More
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xx, 540 pages. Preface, Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Publisher's ephemera and review slip laid in. Keay Davisdson worked for Sentinel Star, Orlando, FL, science writer, 1979-81; Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA, science writer on San Diego bureau staff, 1981-85; San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, CA, science writer, 1986-2000; San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, science writer, 2000—. Davidson's awards and honors include: Westinghouse Award, American Association for the Advancement of Science; Science in Society Award, National Association of Science Writers; Responsibility in Journalism Award, Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP); Dean's Medal, Oxford College of Emory University, 2001. Keay Davidson is the author of Carl Sagan: A Life and was a science and medical writer for the San Diego edition of the Los Angeles Times. Sagan, an astronomer who taught at Harvard and Cornell University, became famous for his books and television appearances as a scientist who could explain the wonders of space and other scientific pursuits in compelling ways to a lay audience. His PBS miniseries Cosmos was one of the most-watched science programs ever broadcast; he was also the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Dragons of Eden and the author of the science fiction novel Contact. Sagan's passion in life was to prove the existence of extraterrestrial life. According to Robert Lee Hotz in the Los Angeles Times, "helped design experiments on the Mariner, Voyager and Galileo space missions." More
Los Alamos, NM: Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2008. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. 12 pages, plus covers. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. Most illustrations in color. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Report number LA-UR-08-04937. DARHT stands for Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test. It is a major above ground experimental facility developed as part of the science foundation needed to enable the United States to continue certifying its nuclear weapons without underground nuclear weapons testing. During a weapon's triggering phase, explosive charges are detonated. The result is a shock wave (implosion), compressing the fuel to higher density. Implosion ends when the fuel reaches a supercritical density, the density at which nuclear reactions build up an uncontainable amount of energy, which is then released in a massive explosion. To make the mockup non-nuclear, a heavy metal surrogate (such as depleted uranium) stands in for the nuclear fuel, but all other components can be exact replicas. Sub-critical masses of plutonium may also be used. Under such implosion forces materials behave like fluids, so this mock implosion is called a hydrodynamic test. Standard practice is to take a single stop-action snapshot of the weapon mockup's interior as the molten components rush inward at thousands of meters per second. X-rays that can penetrate the heavy metal in a weapon mockup are made with an electron accelerator. More
Cambridge, MA: Inst/Foreign Policy Analysis, 1979. First Printing. 23 cm, 51, wraps, biblio, covers worn, soiled, and sticker residue, pencil erasure on title page, sm tear in rear cover, some edge soiling. More
Alexandria, VA: Physical Sciences Inc., 1992. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Spiral bound. Approximately .75 inch thick. Some pages printed on both sides. This document includes the minutes, agenda, attendees, and unclassified viewgraphs from the Fifth DNA/DOE Workshop on the Utility of ICF for Nuclear Weapons Effects Testing that was held at DNA headquarters in Alexandria, VA on 3 March 1992. This document is dated March 19, 1992. Among the agenda topics were: DNA Program for ICF for NWET, DOE Perspective for ICF Weapons Program, DNA Test Requirements, X-Ray Simulations, DECADE to CENTURY, Threat Outputs, Plans for Nova Upgrade, Target Design/Pellet Output, Test Chamber Design, ICF Weapon Effects Test Environments, Comparison of Test Requirements /ICF Capabilities, Collateral Issues & Future Work, Options for DNA/DOE for ICF for NWET. The DNA and DOE positions on ICF for NWET were part of the open discussion at the end of the day. Among those attending were: Chris Keane (LLNL--later DOE ICF Program Manager), John Maenchen (Sandia), Robert Gunderson (DOE/Defense Programs), Jim Kapsales (DOE/Defense Programs), Don Cook (Sandia--later Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs), and Marshall Sluyter (DOE/Defense Programs--wrote reports on the history of ICF). While only unclassified viewgraphs, there appears to be substantial technical information on a number of the viewgraphs. More
Alexandria, VA: Physical Sciences Inc., 1993. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Spiral bound. Approximately 1 inch thick. Some pages printed on both sides. This document includes the minutes, agenda, attendees, and unclassified viewgraphs from the Fifth DNA/DOE Workshop on the Utility of ICF for Nuclear Weapons Effects Testing that was held at DNA headquarters in Alexandria, VA on 3 March 1992. This document is dated March 19, 1992. Among the agenda topics were: Current Path to NIF, DNA IFWEC Program, Cold X-Ray Disk/Hohlraum Outputs, NWET Sources, Fabrication of Targets, Special Target Fabrication, NIF: Range of Scatterer Options for warm X-rays, ICF Research and USAFA, LiH Scatterer Survivability, Simulation Fidelity Issues, Kapton Debris Shield Design, Use of MCP for Cold X-ray Transport, Assessment of Cold X-ray Testing with Capillary Optics, ICF Cold X-Ray Effects Testing, Gas Dynamics of Vaporized LiH, Handling and Fabrication of LiH, ICF Short Pulse Neutron Experiments, Capsule Outputs-Hot/Warm X-rays, NIF for NWET, IFWEC Conceptions, DNA Trends in Diagnostics/Instrumentation, Diagnostics for above Ground Radiation Simulations, and IFWEC Program Issues. Among those attending were: John Maenchen (Sandia), Robert Gunderson (DOE/Defense Programs), Jim Kapsales (DOE/Defense Programs), and Steve Laggis (Oak Ridge, MMES). While only unclassified viewgraphs, there appears to be substantial technical information on a number of the viewgraphs. More
Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 1994. First? Edition. First? Printing. 769, illus., diagrams, maps, footnotes, references, index, errata slip laid in, DJ somewhat worn and soiled, minor edge soiling. More
Santa Monica, CA: RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2019. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xvii, [1], 133, [1] pages. Footnotes. Figures. Tables. Appendices. References. Minor cover soiling noted. Despite its global advantages, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)s current deterrent posture in the Baltic states is militarily weak and generally questionable. A Russian invasion there would almost surely capture some or all of those states' capital cities within a few days, presenting NATO with a fait accompli. This report examines what role nonstrategic nuclear weapons could play in deterring such an invasion. To achieve deterrence-favorable conditions, NATO would need to consider substantially enhancing and improving its conventional forces based in and near the Baltic states; fielding some limited nonstrategic nuclear weapons feasible for use throughout a conflict, including very early in the conflict; and going through the lengthy and difficult political and military peacetime processes necessary to make prompt response to warnings feasible and credible. What would be an action plan to develop and practice rapid-decision and rapid-action processes to prevent a surprise fait accompli despite major deception operations by Russia (e.g., using exercises to cover preparations for invasion)? How would wargaming results change if the initiating scenario resembled the little green men (masked soldiers in unmarked uniforms) employed by Russia in Ukraine in 2014? Are there ways that limited nuclear use by NATO could be given military value despite Russian quantitative escalation dominance? What options exist for geographically horizontal escalation and for escalation into other domains? More
Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Company, 1999. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [1], 134 p. Short chronology of the war. Illustrations. Footnotes. Index. More
Washington DC: Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration, Office of Defense Programs, 2016. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Binder clip holding otherwise loose pages together. [2],[1], 76, [1] pages. Most sheets printed on both sides. Illustrations/figures (some with color). Footnotes. Brig Gen, USAF Stephen L. Davis was the Acting Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs at the time this memorandum was issued. It was signed out on his behalf by Philip Calbos, who was the Principal Deputy at the time. Mr. Calbos' handwritten name in blue ink is likely a multiple reproduction. The main purpose of this revision was to provide some additional clarifying information in a few areas and thus this revision superseded Revision 0. This memorandum documents a Systems Engineering approach to the execution of the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Program. More
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1963. First Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 313 pages. Illus., index, inscription on front endpaper. Signed by the author. More
Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, 2016. Presumed First Edition, First printing of this issue. Wraps. 76 pages, plus covers. Illustrations (many with color). Corner of front cover creased. The featured articles are: Do quantum spin liquids Exist? by Takashi Imai and Young S. Lee; Meghnad Saha: Physicist and nationalist by Somaditya Banerjee; and The Big Science of stockpile stewardship by Victor H. Reis, Robert J. Hanrahan, and W. Kirk Levedahl. Victor Herbert Reis (born 11 February 1935) is a technologist and former U.S. government official, best known as the architect and original sponsor of the U.S. nuclear Stockpile Stewardship Program and its associated Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI), which resulted in the creation of several new generations of government-sponsored supercomputers. This Reis et al article addresses that In the quarter century since the US last exploded a nuclear weapon, an extensive research enterprise has maintained the resources and know-how needed to preserve confidence in the country's stockpile. Meghnad Saha FRS (6 October 1893 – 16 February 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist who developed the Saha ionization equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars. His work allowed astronomers to accurately relate the spectral classes of stars to their actual temperatures. He was elected to the Parliament of India in 1952 from Kolkata. Banerjee is the History of Science Section Chair at the Tennessee Academy of Science. More
Washington DC: Chief Scientist's Office, U.S. Air Force, 2000. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xv, 310 pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Includes Footnotes; Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Glossary; Note on Sources; Timeline; and Index. Includes chapters on Scientists and Generals; A Science Adviser for the Air Staff; Evolution; Changing Environment; Constriction; Chief Engineer; The Chief Scientist's Office Reborn; The Air Force Enters the Post-Cold War World; and Conclusion. Dwayne Allen Day is a space historian and policy analyst and served as an investigator for the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. Day is a senior program officer for the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences, where he has served as a study director on studies concerning NASA's aeronautics flight research capabilities, the planetary exploration program, the size of the astronaut corps, the threat of asteroids, workforce skills, radiation hazards to astronauts, U.S. Air Force astrodynamics standards, and other projects. He previously served as a program officer on the Space Studies Board. He has also written extensively on the history of American satellite reconnaissance. This book traces the history of the office of the Chief Scientist of the Air Force over its 50 years, including remembrances from those who filled the position. It illuminates changes that have occurred over the years, as the country moved from peace to war and back, as national security demands of the Air Force evolved, and as reorganizations and power shifts have taken place within the service and the Department of Defense. More
Baltimore, MD: Fortkamp Publishing Company, 1991. Limited Edition. First? Printing. 258, illus., tape and sticker residue at bottom of DJ spine. Limited edition published by Fortkamp for Nukewatch. More