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The War Against the Atom
New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1982. First Printing. 206, figures, notes, bibliography, index, crease in front DJ, small tear to DJ spine. More
Nuclear
The Essence of Security: Reflections in Office
New York: Harper & Row, 1968. First Edition. 176, appendix, sources, index, usual library markings, DJ in plastic sleeve, DJ slightly soiled. More
The Essence of Security; Reflections in Office
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
The Dynamics of Nuclear Proliferation
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, c1984. First Printing. 24 cm, 229, illus., usual library markings, part of DJ cut off and pasted inside front board and endpaper. More
American Military Thought
Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1966. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. liii, [1], 554 pages. Occasional footnotes. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. This is a volume in The American Heritage series. Walter Millis (March 16, 1899 – March 17, 1968) was an editorial and staff writer for the New York Herald Tribune from 1924 to 1954. Millis was a staff member of the Fund for the Republic from 1954 to 1968. He later became the director of the Fund for the Republic's study of demilitarization in 1954. Millis, widely recognized as a historical writer, wrote eight books including: Road to War: America 1914-1917, This is Pearl! The United States and Japan—1941, Why Europe Fights, Viewed Without Alarm: Europe Today, Arms and Men: A Study of American Military History, The Martial Spirit: A Study of Our War with Spain, and An End to Arms. He also edited The Forrestal Diaries and American Military Thought. Among the 47 extracts of documents in this volume are Elihu Root's Annual Reports of the Secretary of War, 1899-1903; Theodore Roosevelt's First Annual Message, 1901; and Leonard Wood's Our Military History, 1916. More
Who Will Stop the Bomb? A Primer on Nuclear Proliferation
New York: Facts on File Publications, 1985. First Printing. Wraps. 150 pages. Wraps, figures, maps, appendices, sources, notes, index, top corner front cover cut off, some wear to spine edges. More
The Myth of the Machine, Volume II: The Pentagon of Power
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970. Book Club Edition. 496, illus., bibliography, index, DJ somewhat scuffed and soiled, some wear to DJ edges. More
The Myth of the Machine, Volume II: The Pentagon of Power
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970. Book Club Edition. 496, illus., bibliography, index, usual library markings, ink underlining to several pages, DJ in plastic sleeve DJ somewhat soiled and some edge wear. An appraisal of the central themes of modern technologies: power, speed, mass production, automation, instant communication, and remote control. More
The Myth of the Machine, Volume II: The Pentagon of Power
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970. 496, illus., bibliography, index, DJ somewhat worn/soiled: small edge tears/chips, front DJ flap price clipped, boards stained. More
A Special Report in the Public Interest: Energy. Facing Up to the Problem, Getting Down to Solutions
Washington, DC: National Geographic, 1981. 115, wraps, profusely illus. (many in color), maps, bibliography, top corner front cover creased, small stain on title page some wear to cover edges. Topics covered include our energy predicament, America's auto mania, living better on less, an atlas of energy resources, synfuels, new energy frontier, and energy source book. More
Long-Term Worldwide Effects of Multiple Nuclear-Weapons Detonations
Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1975. Quarto, 213, wraps, figures, charts, tables, appendices, references, glossary, small stain on rear cover. More
1001 Questions Answered About Space
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1962. Hardcover. 22 cm, 355 pages, illus., Former owner's stamp on title page. More
The Arms Race: A Programme for World Disarmament
London: Atlantic Books, 1958. 579, footnotes, documents quoted, index, lib stamps & due slip, fr bd weak, paper clips marks & stains ins fr flylf, lib sticker sp. More
Nuclear Hostages
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 252 pages. Index. DJ has some wear, tears, creasing, soiling and chips. DJ is price clipped. Pencil erasure residue on fep. The author was educated at George Washington University and Catholic University. He was Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of EG & G, Inc, one of the leading high-technology companies in the United States. He also served as Chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers. During WWII the author worked under J. Robert Oppenheimer on arming devices for the first bombs; after the war, as a principal founder of a high-technology company specializing in instrumentation, he measured the effects of most major atomic tests. He rejects the concept of a limited atomic war as nonsense. More
Nuclear Hostages
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983. First Printing. Hardcover. 252 pages. Index, some foxing to fore-edge, DJ somewhat soiled and some edge wear. Signed by the author. More
NBC International, Spring, 2007; Serving the global CBRNE community
London: Surrey House, 2007. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 82 pages with covers. Illustrations (many illustrations in color). Format is approximately 8.25 inches by 11.75 inches. Among the content are articles on Nuclear Proliferation Countermeasures, Nuclear Smuggling, Interdiction of Shipments, Litvinenko, Biological Personal Protection, Weaponized Disease, Gas Mask Protection, Liquid Explosives, Polonium, Decontamination, Alpha Radiation Detection, Biological Detection, Police Training and Simulating Chemical Warfare. Among the authors are: Chris Pole, Richard Hoskins, Frank Wall, Frank Barnaby, Bill Finegan, Tom Billick, Menno de Jonge, Leon Geers, Leo Steenweg, Rob de la Poer, John Eldridge, Ian Napier, Mike Gooding, Russ Truman, Dave Squirrel, James Cameron, Dave Paddick, Robert Bettley-Smith, and Brad Rowland. More
NBC International, Spring, 2008
Esher, Surrey, United Kingdom: Surrey House Corporate Communication Ltd., 2008. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus. Wraps. 76 pages, plus covers. Includes illustrations. Many illustrations in color. Item removed from plastic for cataloguing. This periodical was intended to serve the global CBRNE community. More
NBC International, Summer, 2008
Esher, Surrey, United Kingdom: Surrey House Corporate Communication Ltd., 2008. Presumed First Edition/First Printing thus. Wraps. 64 pages, plus covers. Includes illustrations. Many illustrations in color. Item removed from plastic for cataloguing. More
America Armed: Essays on United States Military Policy
Chicago, IL: Rand McNally & Company, 1963. 140, wraps, footnotes, foxing to fore-edge and to covers. More
The Politics of Defence
New York: Taplinger Pub. Co, [1972]. First U.S. Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 249, index. More
Space Warfare and Strategic Defense
New York: Exeter Books, 1987. First U.S. Edition. Oversized, 192, profusely illus. (many in color), maps, tables, glossary, index, some wear to DJ edges. More
Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East: Implications for the Superpowers
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: Nat. Defense Univ. Press, 1985. Second Printing. 21 cm, 117, wraps, tables, endnotes, covers somewhat worn/soiled, pencil erasure on a few pages. More
U.S. Nonproliferation Strategy and the Transfer of Nuclear Technology. Discussion Paper No. 69
Santa Monica, CA: CA Seminar on Arms Control, 1975. 34, wraps, some soiling to covers, rear cover creased. More
Atomic Submarines
Princeton, NJ: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1963. Revised printing, 1964. Hardcover. xiii, 286p., ill., 26 cm. Index. More
Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Cambridge, MA: Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, 1982. 281, figures, tables, chap notes, apps, biblio, chron, index, paper clip indents & rust stains fr flylf to p. xvii approx. More