Nuclear Testing and National Security
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1981. First? Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 107, wraps, chapter notes, bibliography, some wear and soiling to covers. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1981. First? Edition. First? Printing. 20 cm, 107, wraps, chapter notes, bibliography, some wear and soiling to covers. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: National Defense University, 1981. 20 cm, 107, wraps, notes, selected bibliography, pencil erasure on title page, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More
New York: Pantheon Books, c1989. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 243. More
New York: Pantheon Books, c1989. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 243, ink notation on front endpaper. Fulbright graphically depicts the cost of the Cold War. More
New York: Pantheon Books, c1989. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 243, index, some wear, scuffing, and soiling to DJ, some edge soiling. More
New York: Pantheon Books, c1989. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 243, index, some wear, scuffing, and soiling to DJ, stray ink mark to fore-edge. Inscribed by both co-authors. More
New York: Fund for Peace, c1989. 22 cm, 95, wraps, some wear and soiling to covers. This is the successor to First Steps to Peace. More
Geneva, Switzerland: Interavia, S.A., 1979. Wraps. 297-452 p. Includes illustrations. Some illustrations in color. More
New Yorrk: Oxford University Press, 1992. First Edition. First Printing. 301, notes, bibliography, index, DJ slightly worn and soiled. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. 22 cm, 69, usual library markings and library binding. More
New York: Praeger Publishers, [1972]. First? Edition. First? Printing. 25 cm, 102, index, some wear and soiling to boards, publisher's ephemera laid in. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1961. First Printing. 22 cm, 234, footnotes, heavily underlined with some marginal notations. Foreword by Raymond Aron. More
Washington, DC: GPO, 1965. 580, wraps, illus., fold-out charts, footnotes, index. Includes Addendum on Manned Spaceflight to August 30, 1965. More
Washington DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1971. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [2], viii, 732 pages. Index. Pre-title page states Senate Documents, Vol.4-6, International Cooperation in Outer Space Symposium. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Ex-library with few library markings. Ex-United States Senate Library. Cover has slight wear and soiling. This symposium on "International Cooperation in Outer Space" brings together the contributions of 48 authors were were actively engaged in international space activities. As heads of operating agencies or as participants in research and development programs, the contributors have drawn upon their special knowledge and experience to produce the comprehensive information embodied in this document. More
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. [12], 417, [3] pages. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed on fep, signed "Jack". Some yellow highlighting noted. Slightly cocked. Jacques S. Gansler, former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics,was the third ranking civilian at the Pentagon from 1997 to 2001. Gansler was responsible for all research and development, acquisition reform, logistics, advanced technology, environmental security, defense industry, and numerous other security programs. Perviously, Dr. Gansler held a variety of positions in government and the private sector, including Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Material Acquisition), Assistant Director of Defense Research and Engineering (Electronics), Vice President of ITT, and engineering and management positions with Singer and Raytheon Corporations. Throughout his career, Dr. Gansler has written, published and taught on subjects related to his work. He is the author of Defense Conversion: Transforming the Arsenal of Democracy; Affording Defense, , The Defense Industry, and Ballistic Missile Defense: Past and Future. He has published numerous articles in Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, International Security, Public Affairs, and other journals as well as newspapers and frequent Congressional testimonies. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Gansler points the way towards a national security policy that will enable the United States to proceed, safely and prosperously, towards the 21st century. The author offers sensible proposals for reform and revitalization. More
Philadelphia, PA: Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1984. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. xviii, 258 pages. Glossary. Notes. Appendices. Cover has some wear and discoloration. Adam M. Garfinkle (born June 1, 1951 in Washington, D.C.) is the founding editor of The American Interest, a bimonthly public policy magazine. He was previously editor of The National Interest. He has been a university teacher and a staff member at high levels of the U.S. government. He was a speechwriter to Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. He was editor of The National Interest and left to edit The American Interest in 2005. Francis Fukuyama, Eliot Cohen, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Josef Joffe, and Ruth Wedgwood were among the magazine's founding leadership. Early in his career, Garfinkle worked at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and The Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. He served on the staff of the National Security Study Group of the US Commission on National Security/21st Century (the Hart-Rudman Commission), as an aide to General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. and an assistant to Senator Henry M. Jackson. Garfinkle has a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. More
New York, NY: Plenum Press, 1992. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xxiv, 278 p. Index. More
Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1985. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xvi, 1147 pages. Footnotes. Index. Name of previous owner written in book. DJ has some wear and soiling, with edge chips and edge tears. More
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, c1985. First Printing. 24 cm, 1147, wraps, footnotes, index, damp stains inside fr cover, minor damp stains/some wrinkling ins side margin of 1st 50 pgs approx. More
Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xvii, [1], 412, [2] pages. Note to the Paperback Edition. An Optional Review of Units and Dimensions. Illustrations. Notes. For Further Reading. Index. Richard Lawrence Garwin (born April 19, 1928) is an American physicist, widely known to be the author of the first hydrogen bomb design. After graduating from the University of Chicago, Garwin joined the physics faculty there and spent summers as a consultant to Los Alamos National Laboratory working on nuclear weapons. Garwin was the author of the actual design used in the first hydrogen bomb in 1952. He was assigned the job by Edward Teller, with the instructions that he was to make it as conservative a design as possible in order to prove the concept. He also worked on the development of the first spy satellites, for which he was named one of the ten founders of national reconnaissance. He was the catalyst for the discovery and publication of the Cooley–Tukey FFT algorithm, today. He worked on gravitational waves. He has been granted 47 patents and has published over 500 papers. In December 1952, he joined IBM's Watson laboratory, where he worked continuously until 1993. He is currently IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Garwin served on the U.S. President's Science Advisory Committee from 1962–65 and 1969–72. He has been a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group since 1966. He chaired the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board of the U.S. Department of State. He served on the Defense Science Board. He also served on the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States in 1998. More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. Paperback Edition. First Printing thus [Stated]. Trade paperback. xvii, [1], 412, [2] pages. Illustrations. Note to the Paperback Edition. A Fable for Young Readers (and whimsical elders). Notes. For Further Reading. Index. Inscribed by author on the half-title. Inscription reads For Vic Reis, on whom we rely to bring is insight and energy to the solution of our problems with nuclear energy. Dick Garwin Washington, DC 11/21/05 With respect and gratitude. RLG. Garwin's personal address label affixed to the front of the book. Richard Lawrence Garwin (born April 19, 1928) is an American physicist, best known as the author of the first hydrogen bomb design. In 1978, Garwin was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributing to the application of the latest scientific discoveries to innovative practical engineering applications contributing to national security and economic growth. Garwin was the author of the actual design used in the first hydrogen bomb (code-named Mike) in 1952. He was assigned the job by Edward Teller, with the instructions that he was to make it as conservative a design as possible in order to prove the concept was feasible. He also worked on the development of the first spy satellites, for which he was named one of the ten founders of national reconnaissance. In December 1952, he joined IBM's Watson laboratory, where he worked continuously until his retirement in 1993. He is currently IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Georges Charpak (born Jerzy Charpak, 1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992. More
Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2020. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xviii, 300 pages. Notes. Index. Ink marks and underlining noted. Slightly cocked. Francis J. Gavin is an American historian currently serving as the Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor and Director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is also the chairman of the Board of Editors for the Texas National Security Review. Prior to his tenure at Johns Hopkins SAIS, Gavin was a Professor of Political Science at MIT, where he also served as the inaugural Frank Stanton Chair in Nuclear Security Policy Studies. Before joining MIT, he taught at the University of Texas from 2000 to 2013. While there, he was named the Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs in 2005, and served as the Director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. From 2005 until 2010, Gavin directed The American Assembly's multiyear, national initiative, The Next Generation Project: U.S. Global Policy and the Future of International Institutions. Gavin is an Associate of the Managing the Atom Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, Senior Fellow of the Clements Program in History, Strategy, and Statecraft, a Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law, a senior advisor to the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and a life-member of the Council on Foreign Relations. More
Brookfield, CT: Twenty-First Century Books, 2001. Third Printing. 128, index, usual library markings, DJ lightly pasted to boards An in-depth explanation of the ease of manufacture and distribution of lethal chemical and biological weapons and the terrorist organizations thathave access to them. The author also includes a discussion of deployment scenarios and defense strategies. A very hot current events issue sure to engage and inform. More
Menlo Park, CA: Stanford Research Institute, 1971. 5, wraps, stapled at top, number stamped on front, cover printing somewhat light. More
Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2010. Revised Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Trade paperback. xii, 267, [3] pages. Preface to the Revised Edition. Appendix. Notes. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some passages are marked and/or underlined. Bates Gill is an American international relations scholar specialized in Chinese foreign policy and politics, currently serving as executive director of Asia Society's Center for China Analysis. He formerly was Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Gill's research has focused on arms control, nonproliferation, peacekeeping and military-technical development related to China and the Asia-Pacific region. His work has also encompassed other contemporary security-related issues including multilateral security organizations, the impact of domestic politics and development on the foreign policies of states, and the nexus of public health and security. Currently, his work focuses on the role of the Chinese Communist Party in the deliberation and implementation of Chinese foreign and security policy, and China's engagement with the Global South. Before being named SIPRI Director in 2007, Gill held the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. from 2002.[9] He served as a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and inaugural Director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies[9][10] at the Brookings Institution from 1998 to 2002. More