Nuclear Proliferation After the Cold War
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. 370 pages. Notes, index. Inscribed by the author (Reiss--signed "Mitchell"). More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. 370 pages. Notes, index. Inscribed by the author (Reiss--signed "Mitchell"). More
New York: Vintage Books, 2010. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8 inches. Illustrated cover. x,458 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Richard Lee Rhodes (born July 4, 1937) is an American historian, journalist, and author of both fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), and most recently, Energy: A Human History (2018). Rhodes has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation among others. Rhodes is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He also frequently gives lectures and talks on a broad range of subjects, including testimony to the U.S. Senate on nuclear energy. Rhodes came to national prominence with his 1986 book, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, a narrative of the history of the people and events during World War II from the discoveries leading to the science of nuclear fission in the 1930s, through the Manhattan Project and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Among its many honors, the 900-page book won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and a National Book Critics Circle Award, and has sold hundreds of thousands of copies in English alone, as well as having been translated into a dozen or so other languages. More
Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air University, 2004. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [4], iii, [1], 310, [2]pages. Includes Introduction, Disclaimer, Information about the Author, Conclusions,and Notes. Also includes chapters on The "Strengthening" Agenda; The George W. Bush Administration; Taking Stock 1990o - 2004; Looking to the Future; and The Next "Strengthening" Agenda. Counterproliferation Papers, Future Warfare Series, No. 24. The Counterproliferation Papers Series was established by the USAF Counterproliferation Center to provide information and analysis to assist the understanding of the U.S. national security policy-makers and USAF officers to help them better prepare to counter the threat from weapons of mass destruction. Brad Roberts is director of the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. From April 2009 to March 2013 he served as 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. From September 2013 through December 2014, Dr. Roberts was a consulting professor and William Perry Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Dr. Roberts was a member of the research staff at the Institute for Defense Analyses and an adjunct professor at George Washington University. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: Consumer News, c1981. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 230, appendices, references, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Place_Pub: Washington, DC: Consumer News, c1981. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 230, appendices, references, DJ somewhat discolored, small piece missing to rear DJ. Inscribed by the author. More
Washington DC: Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, 2012. Presumed First Paperback Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. x, 218, [4] pages. Ink marks noted. Notes. Appendix. Index. Contributors. Dr. Lora Saalman is a Senior Researcher within SIPRI?s Armament and Disarmament and Conflict, Peace and Security research areas. She also serves as a Member of the Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) and as an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the East-West Center (EWC). Her research focuses on China?s cyber, nuclear and advanced conventional weapon developments in relation to India, Russia and the United States. Formerly she served as vice president of the Asia-Pacific Program at the EastWest Institute and as director of the China and Global Security Programme at SIPRI. She has also worked at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, Tsinghua University, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control, Observer Research Foundation, and Center for Nonproliferation Studies from which she earned a one-year fellowship at the International Atomic Energy Agency. Dr. Saalman was among the first batch of recipients of the Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship. She earned her bachelor?s degree with honors from the University of Chicago, her master?s degree with a certificate in nonproliferation from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and her Ph.D. with an outstanding graduate student award and dissertation award from Tsinghua University, where she was the first American to earn a doctorate from its Department of International Relations, completing all of her coursework in Chinese. More
Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories for the United States Department of Energy, 2001. Presumed first edition/first printing. Wraps. [6], 28, [2] p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. Illustrations in color. More
Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories, 2014. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Wraps. 36 pages plus covers. Illustrations (many in color). The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is the U.S. agency responsible for enhancing national security through the military application of nuclear science. NNSA maintains and enhances the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile without nuclear explosive testing; works to reduce the global danger from weapons of mass destruction; provides the U.S. Navy with safe and effective nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the U.S. and abroad. Established by the United States Congress in 2000, NNSA is a semi-autonomous agency within the United States Department of Energy. More
Albuquerque, NM: Sandia National Laboratories, 1994. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 28 cm, 72 pges. Wraps, illus., some wear and soiling to covers. More
Washington DC: Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Wraps. Contains chapters on Iran's World View and NBC Weapons, A Walk on the Supply Side, The Regional Impact, and Creating Better Policy Options. Map of Estimated Ranges of Current and Potential Iranian Ballistic Missiles on page x2. Endnotes. Kori N. Schake (born 1962) is the Deputy-Director General of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. She has held several high positions in the U.S. Defense and State Departments and on the National Security Council. She was a foreign-policy adviser to the McCain-Palin 2008 presidential campaign. Schake is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. Judith S. Yaphe is a senior research professor in the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, where she specializes in Middle Eastern political analysis. Dr. Yaphe has been both an officer in residence at the Center for the Study of Intelligence and an analyst on Middle East affairs for the U.S. Government. More
Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 1988. Second printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xvi, [2], 320, [2] pages. Figures. Notes. Tables. Appendixes (including a chronology). Dr. Scheinman through an exceptional career in academia and government was a major contributor in shaping the field of nonproliferation studies and key elements of U.S. nonproliferation policy. His authoritative works on the French nuclear weapon program and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are classics in the literature in this field. And his efforts while in the U.S. government and at the IAEA to strengthen international nuclear inspections and to restrain the production of weapons-usable plutonium are legacies of enduring importance. Dr. Scheinman was deeply involved in nuclear-related matters as an academic and as a government and international organization official for 25 years. During his long association with Cornell University, he was appointed Professor of Government and Associate Director, Peace Studies Program. Previously, he was tenured faculty at the University of california Los Angeles and the University of Michigan. In government, during the Clinton Administration, he served as Assistant Director for Nonproliferation and Regional Arms Control at the U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Earlier in his career, he served as Senior Policy Analyst and Head of the International Policy Planning Office in the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration; as Principal Deputy to the Deputy Undersecretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology; and as a special assistant to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency. More
New York: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 1998. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. [12], 240, [4] pages. Index. Jonathan Edward Schell (August 21, 1943 – March 25, 2014) was an American author and visiting fellow at Yale University, whose work primarily dealt with campaigning against nuclear weapons. The Fate of the Earth received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among other awards, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Critics Award. From 1967 until 1987, he was a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as the principal writer of the magazine's Notes and Comment section. He was a columnist for Newsday from 1990 until 1996. He has taught at many universities, including Princeton, Emory, New York University, the New School, Wesleyan University and the Yale Law School. He was a Visiting Lecturer at Yale College. In the early 1980s, Schell wrote a series of articles in The New Yorker (subsequently published in 1982 as The Fate of the Earth), which were instrumental in raising public awareness about the dangers of the nuclear arms race. He became a persistent advocate for disarmament and a world free of nuclear weapons. In 1987, he was a fellow at the Institute of Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and in 2002, a fellow at the Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. More
Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment, 2009. First? Edition. First? Printing. Wraps. 76 pages, wraps, color figures and charts, notes, appendix, some wear to cover edges. More
Lanham, MD: University Press of America, c1988. First? Printing. 24 cm, 216, wraps, cover somewhat worn and some sticker residue. More
Washington, DC: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1985. Presumed first edition/first printing thus. Trade paperback. [6], 42 p. Errata sheet laid in. More
Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987. First Edition. 495, illus., chapter notes, appendix, bibliography, index, small tear ins rear hinge, sm tears to DJ edges, sticker residue fr DJ. More
New York: E. P. Dutton, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 24 cm. , 411, [5] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Ink name inside front board. Glenn Theodore Seaborg (April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His work in this area also led to his development of the actinide concept and the arrangement of the actinide series in the periodic table of the elements. Seaborg spent most of his career as an educator and research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, serving as a professor, and, between 1958 and 1961, as the university's second chancellor. He advised ten US Presidents—from Harry S. Truman to Bill Clinton—on nuclear policy and was Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971, where he pushed for commercial nuclear energy and the peaceful applications of nuclear science. Throughout his career, Seaborg worked for arms control. He was a signatory to the Franck Report and contributed to the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. He was a well-known advocate of science education and federal funding for pure research. Toward the end of the Eisenhower administration, he was the principal author of the Seaborg Report on academic science, and, as a member of President Ronald Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education, he was a key contributor to its 1983 report "A Nation at Risk" More
Tokyo, Japan: International Conference on Plutonium, 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 223, [1] pages. Tables. Figures. Footnotes. Preface by Jinzaburo Takagi. Institutional stamp and ink notation on front cover. Title written in ink on spine. This conference appears to have had an anti-nuclear perspective given that the Ploughshares Fund was one of the organizations providing grants to the Organizing Committee of the Conference. Included in these proceedings is a paper by Thomas B. Cochran entitled The Plutonium Breeder. Dr. Cochran has long been associated with the Natural Resources Defense Council. More
Washington, DC: Common Cause, 1984. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Trade paperback. 130, [2] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Selected Sources. Index. Published ephemera laid in. Pencil erasure on title-page, covers somewhat worn and soiled. The author was a Senior Research Associate at Common Cause. Sandra Sedacca joined Spaulding Rehabilitation Network/Partners Continuing Care in 2016 with more than 30 years of advancement experience in non-profit institutions and academic centers, including national and global organizations committed to health access and equity. Prior to joining Spaulding/PCC, Ms. Sedacca was Harvard Medical School’s Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives and Campaign, and earlier served as Vice President and CDO for Planned Parenthood Federation of America/Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Vice President and CDO for the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, and Dean of Development and External Relations at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Earlier in her career, Ms. Sedacca was the National Director for Development at the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation. Much of her work as a development leader and activist has focused on building and sustaining institution-wide support through major campaigns. Ms. Sedacca holds a J.D from Case Western Reserve University School of Law. More
Washington, DC: Common Cause, 1984. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Trade paperback. 130, [2] pages. Wraps. Illustrations. Selected Sources. Index. Ex-library with usual markings. Cover has some rippling and staining. Pencil erasure on title-page, covers somewhat worn and soiled. The author was a Senior Research Associate at Common Cause. More
Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2008. First Printing. Wraps. 90, wraps, appendices. More
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xi, [1], 321, [1] pages. Abbreviations. Appendix II is Key Documents. Notes. Index. This is one of the Princeton Studies in International History and Politics. Leon V. Sigal is director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council in New York. His book, Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea was one of five nominees for the Lionel Gelber Prize as the most outstanding book in international relations for 1997-98 and was named the 1998 book of distinction by the American Academy of Diplomacy. . He served in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, in 1979 as International Affairs Fellow and as Special Assistant to the Director. From 1974 to 1989 he was a professor of government at Wesleyan University. He was an adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs from 1985 to 1989 and from 1996 to 2000. Sigal is also the author of Reporters and Officials: The Organization and Politics of Newsmaking, Alliance Security: NATO and the No-First-Use Question (with John Steinbruner), Nuclear Forces in Europe: Enduring Dilemmas, Present Prospects, Fighting to a Finish: The Politics of War Termination in the United States and Japan, 1945, and Hang Separately: Cooperative Security Between the United States and Russia, 1985-1994, as well as numerous articles in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, among others. He edited The Changing Dynamics of U.S. Defense Spending. More
Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for International Studies, 1995. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Staplebound. [2], x, 54, [1] pages. Footnotes. Figures. Tables. Institutional stamp and ink notation on title page. Cover has slight wear and soiling. Gene Skolnikoff is Professor of Political Science Emeritus. Professor Skolnikoff has focused his research and teaching interests in the field of science and public policy, especially the interaction of science and technology with international affairs. This interest has covered a wide range of international subjects, including recent studies in proliferation. He studied electrical engineering at MIT, followed by politics and economics at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, and political science at MIT once again. He has served on the White House staff in the Office of the Special Assistant to the President for Science and Technology under Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, and he played an active role as Senior Consultant to the White House Science Office under President Carter. Professor Skolnikoff served as Head of the Department from 1970-74, and was Director of the Center for International Studies from 1972 to 1987. More
Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2021. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. ix, [1], 269, [1] pages. Figures. Tables. Notes. List of Contributors. Index. Paul J. Bolt is a professor and the head of the Department of Political Science at the US Air Force Academy. He has published on Chinese foreign relations and defense issues, and coauthored China, Russia, and Twenty-First Century Global Geopolitics. James M. Smith is the director of the US Air Force Institute for National Security Studies at the US Air Force Academy, where he serves as a professor of strategic studies. He has published on strategic issues, terrorism, and military leader development. Brad Roberts was among the contributors. 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). More
New York: Random House, 1987. Second Edition (stated). First printing (stated). Trade paperback. xii, 323, [1] pages. Footnotes. Boxes. Figures. Tables. For Further Reading. Glossary. Index. Stamps, ink marking, and sticker residue on half-title page. Some highlighting noted. Cover has some wear and soiling. Richard Smoke (October 21, 1944, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania – May 1995, Sarasota, California) was an American historian and political scientist. He graduated from Harvard University magna cum laude in 1965, and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in political science in 1972. His doctoral thesis was entitled Toward the control of escalation: a historical analysis and his advisor was William W. Kaufmann. A professor of political science, he became the Research Director of the Watson Institute's Center For Foreign Policy Development at Brown University in 1985. He was the co-founder of the Center for Peace and Common Security. An internship at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies has been named in his honor. More