Blundering Into Disaster: Surviving the First Century of the Nuclear Age
New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. First Edition. 212, tables, appendices, glossary, notes, index, rear DJ somewhat soiled, some soiling to fore-edge. More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. First Edition. 212, tables, appendices, glossary, notes, index, rear DJ somewhat soiled, some soiling to fore-edge. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. First Paperbk? Edition. First Printing. 223, wraps, notes, index McNamara was Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, andlater was president of the World Bank. One of the chief architects of the Vietnam War, his views changed over time. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First Edition. 176, appendix, sources, index, usual library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ slightly soiled. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xii, 176, [4] pages. Appendix I and II (including sources). Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth United States Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He played a major role in escalating the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. He graduated from UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School and served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Henry Ford II hired McNamara and a group of other Army Air Force veterans to work for Ford Motor Company. These "Whiz Kids" helped reform Ford with modern planning, organization, and management control systems. After briefly serving as Ford's president, McNamara accepted appointment as Secretary of Defense. More
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xii, 176, [4] pages. Appendix I and II (including sources). Index. DJ is price clipped with some wear and soiling. Contents include Part I: This World We Live In; Part II: The Tools of Power; and Part III: Where Security Lies. Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) was an American business executive and the eighth United States Secretary of Defense, serving from 1961 to 1968 under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He played a major role in escalating the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. He graduated from UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School and served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Henry Ford II hired McNamara and a group of other Army Air Force veterans to work for Ford Motor Company. These "Whiz Kids" helped reform Ford with modern planning, organization, and management control systems. After briefly serving as Ford's president, McNamara accepted appointment as Secretary of Defense. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, c1989. First Printing. 22 cm, 223, notes, index, slight wear, soiling, and sticker residue to DJ, edges soiled. More
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, c1985. First Printing. 24 cm, 226, wraps, minor wear and soiling to covers. More
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, c1985. First Printing. 24 cm, 226, illus., maps, footnotes, references, index, DJ worn, soiled, torn, and chipped, minor red ink marks on verso and facing page. More
New York: Prager Publishers, 1970. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 256 pages. Occasional footnotes. Appendix. Bibliographical Note. Index. Ink date on title page. Wolf Mend combined cosmopolitan sympathies with scholarly objectivity. A German Jewish refugee who joined the Quakers, Wolf was an academic at King's College, London, who played a formative part in developing the ethos, and multidisciplinary approach, of its war studies department. The Quaker response to war, he emphasized, has always been complicated. It was in 1962 that he became a research student at the college, concentrating on French nuclear weapons policy. He rose to become emeritus. As a teacher, Wolf specialized in military sociology, especially civil-military relations. More
Carlisle Barracks, PA: U.S. Army War College, 1993. First? Edition. First? Printing. 95, wraps, diagrams, endnotes, index, covers somewhat worn and soiled. Foreword by William A. Stofft. More
Place_Pub: Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1984. First Edition. First Printing. 415, footnotes, annotated bibliography, index. More
Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xix, [1], 273, [3] pages. List of Abbreviations. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Slightly cocked. DJ has slight wear and soiling. The author enlisted in the Navy in 1936 and served two years on the battleship New York. He was one of ten sailors from that ship to march in the parade at the coronation of King George VI. Selected from the fleet to attend the U.S. Naval Academy, he graduated in late 1941. He served in WWII on cruisers before entering flight training. In Korea he served as CO of VF153, earning a Distinguished Flying Cross. He flew in more than 60 types of aircraft in his career. His aviation commands included VF-153, 1953; CAG-17, 1957; USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVS-42), 1963-64; Commander Carrier Division 3, 1969; Commander Second Fleet, 1970-1971; and Commander Sixth Fleet, 1971-1973. His last assignment was as Deputy Director of the Joint Strategic Target Planning Staff in Omaha, Nebraska. More
London: Jane's Publishing Company, 1984. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Hardcover. Quarto/Format is approximately 9 inches by 12.5 inches. 207, [1], 792 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Tables. Glossary. Index. Cover and pages have some wear and soiling. Spine lettering faded. Red mark on bottom edge. This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. Jane's Fighting Ships is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published by John Frederick Thomas Jane in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". It is a unit of Jane's Information Group, which is now owned by IHS. Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More
London: Jane's Publishing Company, 1986. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue. Hardcover. Quarto/Format is approximately 9 inches by 12.5 inches. 838, [2] pages. Illustrations (some in color). Tables. Glossary. Index. Cover and pages have some wear and soiling. Spine lettering faded. This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. Jane's Fighting Ships is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published by John Frederick Thomas Jane (usually known as "Fred T.") in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". It is a unit of Jane's Information Group, which is now owned by IHS. Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More
New York: Franklin Watts Inc., 1979. First American Edition, presumed first printing this issue. Hardcover. Quarto/Format is approximately 9 inches by 12.5 inches. [159], [1], 836 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Tables. Glossary. Index. DJ is price clipped This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. Jane's Fighting Ships is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published by John Frederick Thomas Jane (usually known as "Fred T.") in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". It is a unit of Jane's Information Group, which is now owned by IHS. Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More
London: Jane's Yearbooks, 1975. First Edition, Presumed First printing thus. Hardcover. Quarto. 108, 688, [ii] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Tables. Index. Quick reference index laid in (had been pasted inside front board). Ex-library with some of the usual library markings. This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. This book covers 15,000 ships in more than 110 countries. Includes 3,000 photographs, plans, silhouettes and line drawings. This is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More
New York: Franklin Watts Inc., 1976. First American Publication/Edition, Presumed First printing thus. Hardcover. Quarto. 108, [4], 831, [3] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Tables. Index. This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. Jane's Fighting Ships is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published by John Frederick Thomas Jane (usually known as "Fred T.") in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". It is a unit of Jane's Information Group, which is now owned by IHS. Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More
New York: Franklin Watts Inc., 1977. First American Publication/Edition, Presumed First printing thus. Hardcover. Quarto. 829, [3] pages. Illustrations (some with color). Silhouettes. Tables. Addenda. Index on Named Ships. Index of Classes. Title page and several other pages creased. Some cover wear and soiling. This is a large and heavy book and would require additional shipping charges if sent outside of the United States. Jane's Fighting Ships is an annual reference book of information on all the world's warships arranged by nation, including information on ships' names, dimensions, armaments, silhouettes and photographs, etc. Each edition describes and illustrates warships of different national naval and paramilitary forces, providing data on their characteristics. The first issue was illustrated with Jane's own ink sketches--photos began to appear with the third volume in 1900. The present title was adopted in 1905. It was originally published by John Frederick Thomas Jane (usually known as "Fred T.") in London in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, in order to assist naval officers and the general public in playing naval wargames. Its success eventually launched a number of military publications carrying the name "Jane's". It is a unit of Jane's Information Group, which is now owned by IHS. Ten early editions of Jane's (those of 1898, 1905-06, 1906-07, 1914, 1919, 1924, 1931, 1939, 1944-45, and 1950-51) were reissued in facsimile reprints by Arco Publishing starting in 1969. All of these appeared in the oblong or "landscape" format that characterized the series until the 1956/57 edition, while from 1957/58 the present "portrait" layout was adopted, thus matching the sister Jane's publication on aircraft. More
Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xv, [1], 332 pages. Illustrations. Abbreviations. Appendices. Notes. Bibliography. Index. This appears to be the first title in the series Nuclear Weapons and International Security since 1945. Richard Moore was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. He studied history and international relations at the University of Cambridge, and his Ph.D. dissertation for the University of Hull was published as The Royal Navy and Nuclear Weapons (2001). This work is a study of the political, military and technical aspects of Britain's nuclear weapons programme under the Macmillan government, contrasting Britain's perceived political decline with its growth in technological mastery and military nuclear capability. Important reading for anyone interested in the history and military technology of the cold war. More
Livermore, CA: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Center for Global Security Research, 2021. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 7 inches by 10 inches. [2], 153, [3] pages, plus covers. Footnotes. Illustrations (most in color, mainly at the back). Dr. Brad Roberts has served as director of the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory since 2015. From 2009 to 2013, he was deputy assistant secretary of defense for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy. In this role, he served as policy director of the Obama administration’s Nuclear Posture Review and Ballistic Missile Defense Review and led their implementation. Prior to entering government service, Dr. Roberts was a research fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, editor of The Washington Quarterly, and an adjunct professor at George Washington University. Between leaving the Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2013 and assuming his current responsibilities, Dr. Roberts was a consulting professor at Stanford University and William Perry Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). While at CISAC, he authored a book entitled The Case for US Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century, which won the Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title in 2016. Doctorate in international relations, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Masters, London School Economics and Political Science; and Bachelors in international relations, Stanford University. More
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, [1973]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 333, references, index, ink notation inside front board, a few red underlining and marginal marks, edges soiled, DJ worn & soiled. More
Washington DC: Center for American Progress, 2017. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 8 inches by 10 inches. [4], 59, [1] pages. Map. Endnotes. Cover has some wear and soiling. Illustrated front cover. Adam Mount, Ph.D. is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Defense Posture Project at the Federation of American Scientists, where his work covers U.S. nuclear strategy and force structure, conventional deterrence, and progressive foreign policy. Previously, he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2015-16, he directed the CFR Independent Task Force on U.S. Policy Toward North Korea, a group of seventeen experts chaired by Adm. Mike Mullen and Sen. Sam Nunn. He now directs, with Andrea Berger, the FAS International Study Group on North Korea Policy, a group of twelve emerging experts from allied countries working to develop a sustainable strategy to manage a nuclear-armed North Korea. Dr. Mount’s other writing has been published by Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, Survival, Democracy, and other outlets. He is a contributor to Axios Expert Voices. His analysis is regularly cited by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Politico, AFP, AP, and Reuters, and he has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR, and CNBC. He has testified before the House Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the Department of Government at Georgetown. The author contends that new nuclear weapons are not needed and would be destabilizing. More
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xix, [1], 344, [2] pages. Index. Inscribed/initialed on fep. DJ in plastic sleeve. Daniel Patrick "Pat" Moynihan (March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician, sociologist, and diplomat. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York in the United States Senate and served as an adviser to Republican U.S. President Richard Nixon. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Moynihan moved at a young age to New York City. Following a stint in the navy, he earned a Ph.D. in history from Tufts University. He worked on the staff of New York Governor W. Averell Harriman before joining President John F. Kennedy's administration in 1961. He served as an Assistant Secretary of Labor under Kennedy and Johnson, devoting much of his time to the War on Poverty. Moynihan left the Johnson administration in 1965 and became a professor at Harvard University. In 1969, he accepted Nixon's offer to serve as an Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. He left the administration at the end of 1970, and accepted appointment as United States Ambassador to India in 1973. He accepted President Gerald Ford's appointment to the position of United States Ambassador to the United Nations in 1975, holding that position until early 1976. More
Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1988. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. 25 cm, xiii, [1], 126 pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Index Pencil erasure and ink notation on title page, stamp on fore-edge. Don Mrozek, a professor of history at Kansas State University, Kansas, USA, since 1972 and a faculty member of the university’s Institute for Military History and 20th Century Studies, is a specialist in American military history, with particular interests in civil-military relations, the interplay between societal development and military institutions, American notions about the nature of war and aspects of American military aviation. More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. First Paperback Edition, First printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xiii, [3], 319, [1] pages. Cover has minor soiling. Preface, Notes, References, Index. John E. Mueller (born June 21, 1937) is an American political scientist in the field of international relations. He is recognized for his ideas concerning "the banality of ethnic war" and the theory that major world conflicts are quickly becoming obsolete. Mueller's 2004 book, The Remnants of War, was awarded Georgetown University's Lepgold Prize as that year's best book on international relations. Mueller's 2010 book Atomic Obsession presents the case that nuclear weapons have had little historical significance, that their destructive power is hysterically exaggerated, that nuclear proliferation has been slower and more limited than mainstream predictions, and that such weapons are practically useless and are a waste of money, time, and talent. Mueller's book War, Presidents and Public Opinion was awarded the first Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut in 2007, for being "a trailblazing book in public opinion research, in political science, and in the use of the Roper Center’s data." This book featured the first definition of what is known as the Rally Round the Flag Syndrome. More