New York: William E. Rudge's Sons, 1946. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.25 inches by 11.25 inches. [12], 99, [1] pages. Footnote. Illustrations. Bibliography. DJ is worn, torn, soiled, and chipped. Genealogical Succession table inside the front board. The Table of Contents includes The Pattern of a Family, The Miller's Story, Merchant of Young New York, "C.V.S." and the Roaring Forties, Sons, Oyster Bay, World War I -- and Aftermath; and An Old Tradition and the New York of 1946. There is a book plate inside the rear cover that reads, in part, This book has been paid for by Hugh W. Long and Company, Incorporated...It contains reference to Fundamental Investors, Inc. and Investors Management Fund, Inc, mutual investment companies. William T. Cobb, though a native of Boston, made New York his home city and became a prominent write on business and financial subjects. His intimate knowledge of the city is reflected in his story of the "Oyster Bay" Roosevelts. This is the story of ten generations of a family as it is woven into the fabric of American life. Roosevelt and Son had significant financial ties to the Investors Management Fund. More

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1962. Apollo Edition [stated] Presumed first printing. Trade paperback. x, 262 pages. Illustrations. Books and Journals. Index. Minor damp signs at bottom edge and fore-edge toward the back. Nobel prize-winning scientist discusses nuclear testing and nuclear warfare. Linus Carl Pauling (28 February 1901 – 19 August 1994) was an American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator. He published more than 1,200 papers and books, of which about 850 dealt with scientific topics. New Scientist called him one of the 20 greatest scientists of all time, and as of 2000, he was rated the 16th most important scientist in history. For his scientific work, Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. For his peace activism, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. Pauling was one of the founders of the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular biology. His contributions to the theory of the chemical bond include the concept of orbital hybridization and the first accurate scale of electronegativities of the elements. Pauling also worked on the structures of biological molecules, and showed the importance of the alpha helix and beta sheet in protein secondary structure. Pauling's approach combined methods and results from X-ray crystallography, molecular model building, and quantum chemistry. His discoveries inspired the work of James Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin on the structure of DNA, which in turn made it possible for geneticists to crack the DNA code of all organisms. In his later years he promoted nuclear disarmament. More

New York: Pocket Books, 1983. First Printing. Mass market paperback. xiii, [1], 236, [6] pages. Wraps. Footnotes. Tables. Appendices. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Covers somewhat scuffed and edges worn. Describes the workings of the Russian political system and discusses the development of the nuclear policies of the Soviet Union. This is described as The Essential Companion Volume to the 1983 Ground Zero Firebreaks War-Peace Game. Earl Molander majored in Chemical and Biological Engineering and went on to be a professor of business at Portland State University for nearly 35 years, retiring as Professor Emeritus in 2010. He also led the Free Market Business Development Institute at PSU. His late brother, Roger Molander majored in Mechanical Engineering and went on to be an arms control strategist and nuclear protest leader in Washington, DC. More

Somerset, United Kingdom: Haynes Publishing, 2018. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. 195, [1] pages. Illustrations (many in color). Maps. Abbreviations. Glossary. Minor cover wear, soiling, and corner bumping. This work provides an insight into the science, design and engineering of tactical and strategic nuclear delivery systems. The contents include an Introduction; The new physics; The American bomb; The Russian Bomb; The British Bomb; The French Bomb, The Chinese Bomb, Other Nuclear Powers, The big stick, and Postscript. David Baker (born 1944) is a prolific British space author and self-described space scientist. His description of his career is that he first visited the US in 1962 and returned to work for NASA on the Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle programs between 1965 and 1984 as a Mission Planning and Analysis Department. He reports that he was present at NASA during Apollo 13 in 1970. He returned to the UK in 1984 and set up an independent consultancy helping countries around the world including India to develop and integrate commercial space technologies for their national space programs. He now works as a journalist, writer and an author. He has published thousands of articles, more than 100 books and contributed to many radio and TV documentaries about space missions in the US and Europe. In the past, he has edited the Aerospace Review, Jane's Aircraft Upgrades and Jane's Space Directory. He is a fellow of the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) and from 2011 until his resignation in 2021 he was the editor of the BIS's monthly journal, Spaceflight. More

Bloomington, IN: 1stBooks, 2005. Revised Edition. Trade paperback. xvi, 357, [7] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Carter Plymton Hydrick has been a professional writer and communicator for over a quarter century. While Critical Mass is his first book, he has written or produced hundreds of scripts, articles, and advertisements, as well as written, produced and directed over 100 film and video productions, including work on feature films. He has served as director of corporate communications for a Fortune 500 company, and as a global marketing executive for one of the world's largest computer companies. On May 19, 1945, eleven days after the surrender of Nazi Germany in Europe, a U-boat was escorted into Portsmouth Naval Yard, New Hampshire. News reporters covering the surrender of U-234 were ordered, contrary to all previous and later U-boat surrender procedures, to keep their distance from crew members and passengers of U-234, on threat of being shot by the attending Marine guards. Why the tight security? Buried in the nose of the specially-built mammoth boat, sealed in cylinders “lined with gold,” was 1,120 pounds of enriched uranium labeled “U235”the fissile material from which atom bombs are made. Critical Mass documents how these Nazi bomb components were then used by the Manhattan Project to complete both the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima and the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki, to defeat the Japanese and win World War Two and global domination in the modern age. More

Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. Fourth paperbound printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xi, [1], 233, [3] pages. Map. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Signed on the title page. Contents include Preface; Introduction; The Origins of Los Alamos; The Construction and Naming of Trinity; Theoretical Considerations; The Question of Weather; The Blast; The Aftermath I: Fallout; The Aftermath II: Cattle, Film and People; The International Legacy; The Local Legacy; and Epilogue. This is an award-winning work! Szasz joined the UNM Department of History in 1968 and earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Rochester the following year. His scholarship included American intellectual history, American religious history, religion in the American West, early atomic age, the "old" social and intellectual history, especially dealing with the impact of Scotland on the West. He taught U.S. history survey courses, the history of World War II, and a number of undergraduate and graduate seminars. During the 1985-86 academic year Szasz was the Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, where, in addition to his university duties, he lectured extensively throughout Scotland, England and Wales. In 1985 Szasz received an "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" award and during his 43 years of teaching he had more than 20,000 students. 'In this tightly focused, lucidly written and thoroughly researched book, Szasz, a professor at the University of New Mexico, describes the events, personalities and scientific processes that led to the detonation of the first atomic bomb in an isolated stretch of New Mexican desert...' ---New York Times Book Review. More

London: The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1980. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xv, [1], 160 pages. Ex-library with usual library markings. DJ in plastic sleeve, glued to boards. This was published for The Royal Institute of International Affairs. The contents include: List of Abbreviations, Introductions, Chapters on The Nuclear Bias; From Skybolt to Polaris; The Problem of Strategy; The Labour Government and Nuclear Weapons 1964-1970; Chevaline; The Problem of Replacement; Cruise Missiles versus Ballistic Missiles; Defence Priorities; Arms Control; The Strategic Context; Nuclear Politics in Europe; and Rationales. This work includes Appendices on: Submarines; Characteristics of SLBMs; Expenditure on Nuclear Weapons (current Lm); Breakdown of Costs of Nuclear Strategic Forces; Manpower; Polaris Missile Tests; and Underground Nuclear Tests. There are also Notes and an Index. Sir Lawrence David Freedman, KCMG, CBE, PC, FBA (born 7 December 1948) is Emeritus Professor of War Studies at King's College London. He has been described as the "dean of British strategic studies" and was a member of the Iraq Inquiry. Freedman held positions at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) before he was appointed, in 1982, Professor of War Studies at King's College London. He was head of the department until 1997. In 2000, he was the first head of the college's School of Social Science and Public Policy. From 2003 to December 2013, he was a Vice Principal at King's College London. He retired from King's in December 2014. Freedman was the official historian of the Falklands campaign. More

Los Alamos, NM: Pajarito Publications, 1972. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 5.375 inches by 8.5 inches. Illustrated front and back covers. 64 pages. Illustrations. Maps. Index. Bibliography. Signed by the author inside the front cover. Cover has slight wear and soiling. This is a history of Los Alamos, New Mexico before the dawn of the atomic age, the Manhattan Project, and the first atomic explosion. A secret World War II project started here after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, known as the Manhattan Project, producing the first atomic weapons... The Contents are: Prologue: Los Alamos Before the Dawn; An Oasis of Wonder; The Geologic Beginnings; Birth and Death of the Volcano; Carving the Modern Landscape; People of the Shadows; On the Fringes of History; Under the Sword of Spain; The Land Grant System; Taming the Plateau; and Los Alamos Ranch School. More

Boston: Da Capo Press, 1983. Later printing. Trade paperback. xviii, 464, [2] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Appendixes. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. This is an unabridged republication of the first edition published in New York in 1962, here supplemented with a new Introduction by Edward Teller. General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military officer in charge of marshaling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious, expensive engineering feat in history, it was General Groves who hired Oppenheimer (with knowledge of his left-wing past), planned facilities that would extract the necessary enriched uranium, and saw to it that nothing interfered with the accelerated research and swift assembly of the weapon. This is his story of the political, logistical, and personal problems of this enormous undertaking which involved foreign governments, sensitive issues of press censorship, the construction of huge plants at Hanford and Oak Ridge, and a race to build the bomb before the Nazis got wind of it. The role of Groves in the Manhattan Project has always been controversial. In his new introduction the noted physicist Edward Teller, who was there at Los Alamos, candidly assesses the general's contributions-and Oppenheimer's-while reflecting on the awesome legacy of their work. The new Introduction by Edward Teller provides information and perspective not available in the original edition of this important memoir and project history. More

Stockholm, New York: Almqvist & Wiksell, Humanities Press, 1970. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 39, [1] pages plus original covers. Footnotes. Text is in English. Ex-library with usual library markings. This appears to have been issued in wraps and hardbound by the library in blue buckram. This pamphlet has an Introduction and then addresses the Prospects for Applications of Nuclear Explosives, Implications for Arms Control, An International Approach to Policy Questions, International Arrangements for Conducting Peaceful Applications, and Conclusions. The author was on the faculty of the State University of New York at Stoney Brook at one time. This document was produced in association with SIPRI, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an international institute based in Stockholm. It was founded in 1966 and provides data, analysis and recommendations for armed conflict, military expenditure and arms trade as well as disarmament and arms control. The research is based on open sources and is directed to decision-makers, researchers, media and the interested public. SIPRI's organizational purpose is to conduct scientific research in issues on conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security, with the goal of contributing to an understanding for the conditions for a peaceful solution of international conflicts and sustainable peace. SIPRI was ranked among the top three non-US world-wide think tanks in 2014 by the University of Pennsylvania Lauder Institute's Global Go To Think Tanks Report.[2] In 2020, SIPRI ranked 34th amongst think tanks globally. More

Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2008. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xxv, [1], 510 pages. Footnotes. Maps (with color). Illustrations (some in color). Appendices. Index. The Conference was sponsored by the Hoover Institution and the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Drawn from presentations made at the Hoover Institution's October 2007 conference, this collection of essays examines the practical steps necessary to address the current security challenges of nuclear weapons and to move toward the goal Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev envisaged in their historic meeting at Reykjavik: the elimination of all nuclear weapons. The distinguished group of contributors includes former officials of the past six administrations—Republican and Democratic—along with senior scholars and scientific experts on nuclear issues. They discuss the critical issues involved in reducing the number of weapons, preventing the growth of new nuclear weapons capabilities, securing nuclear stockpiles worldwide, the challenges of verification and compliance with treaties to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation, preventing the spread of technology for nuclear fuel enrichment and reprocessing, dealing with regional animosities, and engaging the entire international community in the joint enterprise of reducing the nuclear threat. More

Washington DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xx, [2], 680, [2] pages. Footnotes. Figures. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Cover has some wear and soiling, and corner bumped. Contribution authors include: Bruce G. Blair, Thomas S. Blanton, William Burr, Steven M. Kosiak, Arjun Makhajani, Robert S. Norris, Kevin O'Neill, John E. Pike, and William J. Weida. Contents include Foreword, Abbreviations and Acronyms, A Methodological Note, Introduction, Building the Bomb, Deploying the Bomb, Targeting and Controlling the Bomb, Defending Against the Bomb, Dismantling the Bomb, Nuclear Waste Management and Environmental Remediation, Victims of the Bomb, The Costs and Consequences of Nuclear Secrecy, Congressional Oversight of the Bomb, The Economic Implications of Nuclear Weapons, Strengthening Atomic Accountability, Appendix A. U.S. Nuclear Weapon Production Costs, 1948-96; Appendix F. Selected DOD Nuclear Weapons Program Costs, 1962-95; Appendix C. Nuclear Weapons Production and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Facilities; Appendix D Assessing the Costs of Other Nuclear Weapon States; Appendix E Steering Committee of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project; Selected Bibliography, Index. Stephen I. Schwartz is a senior fellow at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He served as editor of The Nonproliferation Review; publisher and executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; project director at the Brookings Institution; and Washington representative for the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability. He is the author of numerous articles and reports, editor and co-author of Atomic Audit. More