Fateful Visions: Avoiding Nuclear Catastrophe
Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1988. Wraps. 299 pages. Wraps, notes, index, tables, some wear to covers and spine, top corner p.163 to end slightly curled. More
Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1988. Wraps. 299 pages. Wraps, notes, index, tables, some wear to covers and spine, top corner p.163 to end slightly curled. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvii, [3], 289, [3] pages. Introduction by Paul Ramsey. Footnotes. Compliments card form the author laid in. DJ has some wear and soiling. William V. O'Brien was Professor of Government Emeritus at Georgetown University. Dr. O'Brien specialized in international law and ethics and was an authority on just war doctrine. His books included "The Conduct of Just and Limited War," "Law and Morality in Israel's War with the PLO," "Nuclear War, Deterrence, and Morality" and "War And/Or Survival." He was born at Georgetown University hospital and spent his college years there, earning a Ph.D. in 1953. He spent his entire academic career there, too, beginning as an instructor in 1950, and retiring as professor emeritus in 1993. O'Brien's years at Georgetown were interrupted only by World War II, during which he served in the U.S. Army and saw action in the Pacific theater. During his years on the Georgetown faculty, Dr. O'Brien twice served as chairman of the government department. He was chairman of the Institute of World Policy, and he helped establish the Goldman visiting Israeli professorship. In his honor in 1993, the university established the William V. O'Brien Lecture in International Law and Morality. More
Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1986. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. viii, 260, [4] pages. Index. About the Contributors. About the Editors. DJ is taped to the boards, otherwise has little wear and soiling. William V. O'Brien was a Georgetown University professor emeritus of government who served on the faculty from 1950 to 1993. He graduated from Georgetown, where he also received a master's degree and a doctorate in government. Dr. O'Brien specialized in international law and ethics and was an authority on just war doctrine. His books included "The Nuclear Dilemma and the Just War Tradition", "The Conduct of Just and Limited War," "Law and Morality in Israel's War with the PLO," "Nuclear War, Deterrence, and Morality" and "War And/Or Survival." During his years on the Georgetown faculty, Dr. O'Brien twice served as chairman of the government department. He was chairman of the Institute of World Policy, and he helped establish the Goldman visiting Israeli professorship. In his honor in 1993, the university established the William V. O'Brien Lecture in International Law and Morality. Rev. John Patrick Langan, SJ, attained a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Michigan. He was ordained a priest on June 10, 1972. Fr. Langan joined the staff of the newly formed Woodstock Theological Center in Maryland, and from 1981 to 1986 taught philosophy first at Georgetown University and then at Yale Divinity School. In 1987, Fr. Langan began what would become a nearly 30-year tenure at Georgetown University, as a professor of philosophy and Christian ethics and later as the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Professor of Catholic Social Thought. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 289, footnotes, DJ worn and soiled: edge tears/chips. More
Washington DC: The American University Press, 1993. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. ix, [1], 186, [4] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Index. Ink notation on fep. DJ has slight wear, scratching and soiling. William Eldridge Odom (June 23, 1932 – May 30, 2008) was a retired U.S. Army 3-star general, and former Director of the NSA under President Ronald Reagan, which culminated a 31-year career in military intelligence, mainly specializing in matters relating to the Soviet Union. After his retirement from the military, he became a think tank policy expert and a university professor and became known for his outspoken criticism of the Iraq War and warrantless wiretapping of American citizens. In 1977, he was appointed as the military assistant to Zbigniew Brzezinski, the hawkish assistant for national security affairs to President Jimmy Carter. Among the primary issues he focused on were American-Soviet relations, including the SALT nuclear weapons talks, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iran hostage crisis, presidential directives on the situation in the Persian Gulf, terrorism and hijackings, and the executive order on telecommunications policy. From 2 November 1981 to 12 May 1985, Odom served as the Army's Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence. From 1985 to 1988, he served as the director of the National Security Agency under president Ronald Reagan. Odom was a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, where he specialized in military issues, intelligence, and international relations. He was an adjunct professor at Yale University and Georgetown University, where he taught courses in U.S. National Security Policy and Russian Politics. More
Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1983. First? Edition. First? Printing. 167, chronology, figures, tables, glossary, bibliography, index. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: GPO, 1986. First Thus? Edition. First Printing. 27 cm, 99, wraps, illus. (some with color), maps (one fold-out), glossary. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1987. First? Edition. First? Printing. 27 cm, 100, wraps, illus. (some in color), maps, glossary, covers slightly worn and soiled. More
London: Brassey's (UK), 1991. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xvi, 126, [2] pages. Illustrations. Tables. Figures. References. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Pencil erasure residue on fep. G.O.D.S. stands for Global Orbiting Defence System. He was a boy from a working class home in East London who helped develop nuclear offensive and defensive weapons, oversee military cooperation between the US and the UK, and brief Margaret Thatcher and the British Chiefs of Staff on SDI, while also finding time to collaborate with orthopedic surgeons to design a titanium hip replacement? After WWII he became an international athlete, a well published research scientist, and went on to take a leading role in the development of Britain's nuclear deterrent. The circle was completed when he led British involvement in the American Star Wars program, by helping to create a system that could intercept the type of missiles that had forced him to become an evacuee decades earlier. His early school years shaped an approach to life that enabled Stanley to succeed at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment and onto Diplomacy at the very highest level of British and American Nuclear Activity. More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1968. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. x, [2], 171, [1] pages. Footnotes, Index. DJ is price clipped and has some wear and soiling. Includes chapters on: Alliances in the Cold War: Vision and Reality; The Nature of Alliances; The Beginnings of American Alliance Policy; Alliances in Europe; Alliances Outside of Europe; and The Future of Alliances. Robert Endicott Osgood (1921–1986) was an expert on foreign and military policy, and the author of several significant texts on international relations. He taught at Johns Hopkins University for twenty five years, and also served as an advisor to Ronald Reagan during the latter's 1980 presidential campaign. He attended Harvard University, where he attained his bachelor's degree as well as his doctorate. He also served in World War II. His teaching career began in 1956 when he became assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago. In 1961 he became Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. In 1969, he took a leave to serve for a year as a staff aide on the U.S. National Security Council, headed by Henry A. Kissinger, in the Nixon Administration. Osgood directed the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research at Johns Hopkins University from 1965 to 1973. From 1973 to 1979 he was dean of the School of Advanced International Studies. He served as an advisor during Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, and in 1983, Secretary of State George P. Shultz named him to the Policy Planning Council. More
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1967. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. viii, [2], 374 pages. Footnotes. Preface. Index. Inscribed on the half-title by Osgood to Lenny Bushkoff! DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Robert Endicott Osgood (1921–1986) was an expert on foreign and military policy, and the author of several significant texts on international relations. He taught at Johns Hopkins University for twenty five years, and also served as an advisor to Ronald Reagan during the latter's 1980 presidential campaign. Osgood attended Harvard University, where he attained his bachelor's degree as well as his doctorate. He also served in World War II. His teaching career began in 1956 when he became assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago. In 1961 he became Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. In 1969, he took a leave to serve for a year as a staff aide on the U.S. National Security Council, headed by Henry A. Kissinger, in the Nixon Administration. Osgood directed the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research at Johns Hopkins University from 1965 to 1973. From 1973 to 1979 he was dean of the School of Advanced International Studies. He served as an advisor during Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, and in 1983, Secretary of State George P. Shultz named him to the Policy Planning Council. The Osgood Center for International Relations is named for him. More
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1962. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. x, [2], 416 pages. Footnotes. Notes. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling, is price clipped, and had been taped to the boards--some tape still on DJ. Robert Endicott Osgood (1921–1986) was an expert on foreign and military policy, and the author of several significant texts on international relations. He taught at Johns Hopkins University for twenty five years, and also served as an advisor to Ronald Reagan during the latter's 1980 presidential campaign. Osgood attended Harvard University, where he attained his bachelor's degree as well as his doctorate. He also served in World War II. His teaching career began in 1956 when he became assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago. In 1961 he became Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. In 1969, he took a leave to serve for a year as a staff aide on the U.S. National Security Council, headed by Henry A. Kissinger, in the Nixon Administration. Osgood directed the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research at Johns Hopkins University from 1965 to 1973. From 1973 to 1979 he was dean of the School of Advanced International Studies. He served as an advisor during Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign, and in 1983, Secretary of State George P. Shultz named him to the Policy Planning Council. The Osgood Center for International Relations is named for him. More
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, [1970]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 434, footnotes, index, some wear and soiling to DJ, pencil erasure and some soiling on endpages. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, c1995. First Printing. 24 cm, 184, illus., small mar inside front board. More
London: Macdonald, 1966. 23 cm, 224, index, front DJ flap price clipped, some soiling and wear to DJ, edges soiled, some foxing and discoloration to text. More
South Brunswick: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1968. First American Edition [stated], Presumed First printing. Hardcover. 224 pages. Foreword by Field Marshal C. J. Auchinleck. List of books consulted. Index. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips and is price clipped and taped to the boards. Some pencil marks noted. Bookplate of Walter Darnell Jacobs inside the front cover!!! There are twelve chapters: Warfare: An Analysis of Functions; The Cycle of Processes; The Evolution of Strategy; Strategic Background to the Second World War; The History of Tactics; The Principles of War; Guerilla Warfare; Nuclear Strategy: The Earlier Years; The Strategy of Deterrence; Nuclear Strategy: The Chinese Involvement; Nuclear Tactics; and War in the Deterrent Age. Walter Darnell Jacobs was an American Political scientist and educator. He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Public Law, Columbia University in 1961. He served in WWII and retired as a Colonel. He was a Research Specialist, 1959-1961; and faculty at U. Maryland., College Park, 1961-1981. More
London: Routledge, 2012. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 7 inches by 10 inches. xx, 356 pages. Illustrations. List of Contributors. Abbreviations. Notes. Select Bibliography. Index. Decorative front cover. This is one of the Routledge International Handbooks. Professor Harsh V Pant is a Professor of International Relations with King's India Institute. He is Director, Studies and Head of the Strategic Studies Programme at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi. He is also Director (Honorary) of Delhi School of Transnational Affairs at Delhi University. Harsh has been a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore; a visiting fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania; a visiting scholar at the Center for International Peace and Security Studies, McGill University; a visiting professor at O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat; a visiting professor at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi; and an emerging leaders fellow at the Australia-India Institute, University of Melbourne. His current research is focused on Asian security issues. His most recent books include New Directions in India?s Foreign Policy: Theory and Praxis (Cambridge University Press), India?s Nuclear Policy (Oxford University Press), The US Pivot and Indian Foreign Policy (Palgrave Macmillan), Handbook of Indian Defence Policy (Routledge), and India?s Afghan Muddle (HarperCollins). Professor Pant writes regularly for various Indian and international media outlets including the Japan Times, the Wall Street Journal, the National (UAE), the Hindustan Times, and the Telegraph. More
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2000. First Paperback Edition [Edition]. Third printing [stated]. Trade paperback. viii, 312 pages. Notes. Contributors. Index. T. V. Paul is Associate Professor of Political Science, McGill University, and the author of Asymmetric Conflicts: War Initiation by Weaker Powers. James J. Wirtz is Associate Professor of Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, and the author of The Tet Offensive: Intelligence Failure at War. Richard Harknett is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Cincinnati, and the author of numerous articles on security affairs. Contributors include: George Herman Quester, American political science professor. Fellow Center Advanced Study Behavioral Sciences, 1974-1975. Served with United States Air Force, 1958-1961. Member Council Foreign Relations, Institute Strategic Studies, American Political Science Association. Colin S. Gray (December 29, 1943 – February 27, 2020) was a British-American writer on geopolitics and professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies at the University of Reading, where he was the director of the Centre for Strategic Studies. In addition, he was a Senior Associate to the National Institute for Public Policy. Gray was educated at the University of Oxford. He worked at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Hudson Institute, before founding the National Institute for Public Policy in Washington, D.C. He also served as a defence adviser both to the British and U.S. governments. Gray served from 1982 until 1987 in the Reagan Administration's General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. Gray published 30 books on military history and strategic studies, and numerous articles. More
Oxford: Berg, 1994. Hardcover. 22 cm, 433, very slightly cocked/shaken, very faint pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
1991: Westview Press, Boulder, CO. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. vii, [1], 163, [1] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. Errata slip pasted inside front cover. Some ink marks and underlining noted. Identifying the features of the emerging international security environment, the author focuses on the factors likely to distinguish it from the Cold War period. He then considers the effect of this new environment on the future role of missile defence in US and Soviet security policy. More
Place_Pub: Ganges, BC, Canada: Salt Spring Nuclear Disarm. n.p. 29, wraps, illus., glossary, pencil erasure on title page. More
New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2009. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xxii, 125, [1] pages. Occasional footnotes. Acronyms. A Note on Definitions. Additional or Dissenting Views. Endnotes. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Task Force Members included Linton Brooks,Ashton Carter, John Deutch, John Gordon, Eugene Habiger, and Laura Holgate. Ink notations on page 113. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), founded in 1921, is a United States nonprofit think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs. It is headquartered in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. Its membership, which numbers 4,900, has included senior politicians, former secretaries of state, CIA directors, bankers, lawyers, professors, and senior media figures. The CFR meetings convene government officials, global business leaders and prominent members of the intelligence and foreign-policy community to discuss international issues. CFR publishes the journal Foreign Affairs, and runs the David Rockefeller Studies Program, which influences foreign policy by making recommendations to the presidential administration and diplomatic community, testifying before Congress, interacting with the media, and publishing on foreign policy issues. More
New York: Random House, 2002. First edition. Stated. Hardcover. xxx, 494 p. Map. Notes. Index. More
Annapolis, MD: Nautical & Aviation Pub. Co., c1979. First? Edition. First? Printing. 26 cm, 226, illus., glossary, bookplate residue inside front board, some wear and soiling to DJ. More
Washington DC: Arms Control Association, 2007. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Periodical. 56 pages, plus covers. Illustrations. Endnotes. Mailing information on back cover. Cover has some wear. The Arms Control Association provides policymakers, media, and the interested public with information, analysis and commentary on arms control proposals, negotiations and agreements, and related national security issues. The Arms Control Association, founded in 1971, is a national nonpartisan organization dedicated to promoting public understanding of and support for effective arms control policies. Through its public education and media programs and its magazine, Arms Control Today, we provide policy-makers, the press and the interested public with authoritative information, analysis and commentary on arms control proposals, negotiations and agreements, and related national security issues. In addition to the regular press briefings the Arms Control Association holds on major arms control developments, the staff provides commentary and analysis on a broad spectrum of issues for journalists and scholars both in the United States and abroad. The group publishes the monthly Arms Control Today magazine is dedicated to cover national issues and provide public education and media programs, authoritative information, analysis and commentary on arms control proposals, negotiations and agreements. More