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Fear and ignorance have colored the perception of chemical and biological (CB) warfare both in the public and military spheres.

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This book is a treatise on the history of American psychology's role in nuclear war prevention.

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Divided into armament epochs - Ages of Valour, Chivalry, Gunpowder, Steam, Oil, and Atomic Energy - Armament and History examines the most influential military innovations of each period as well as the key leaders (including Alexander, Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus, and Napoleon) who skilfully employed these weapons.

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This volume analyzes the development of tanks and traces their history from the British attack at Cambrai in 1917 during World War I through the AirLand Battle of Operation Desert Storm in 1991.

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Part I discusses the creation of the Commissariat a I'Energie Atomique and outlines its structure and function. Part II focuses on the development of military atomic policy. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distingui

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Presents the facts behind the spread of ballistic missiles and their technology to Third World countries and suggests plausible responses for the United States and its allies. The book includes a postscript on the American-Iraqi war and its effects on ballistic missile proliferation.

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Although the United States efforts to prevent the spread of strategic weapons have varied significantly since 1945, they all presumed to be avoiding one or another type of strategic war.

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The true story of a covert biological weapons programme - told from the inside by the man who ran it.

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In this comprehensive study, eminent scholars address all aspects of U.S. deterrence policy from both technical and policy aspects.

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An analysis of how nuclear weapons states have been able to 'normalise' nuclear weapons by practising elements of 'nuclearism'. These practices have all been affected by the creation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which represents a major challenge to these states and their domination of the global nuclear order.

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Why would a nation, in the midst of a vicious and unrestricted war, hesitate to employ a weapon guaranteed to inflict massive casualties on the enemy Major Frederic Brown offers here the first critical analysis of this curious World War II phenomenon. He investigates the nature of restraints-political, military, economic, and psychological-operati

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The Gulf War has been the only conflict in the last half-century that featured the possible use of chemical-biological weapons against U.S. forces.

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The Gulf War has been the only conflict in the last half-century that featured the possible use of chemical-biological weapons against U.S. forces.

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This edited collection considers the future of nuclear weapons in world politics in terms of security issues that are important for the US and other policy makers. The spread of nuclear weapons also is related to the equally dangerous proliferation of other weapons of mass destruction.

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Drone warfare described from the perspectives of drone operators, victims of drone attacks, anti-drone activists, international law, military thinkers, and others.

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From the Abrams M1 tank to the zeppelin, this essential reference details the invention and evolution of nearly 600 of the most important advances in military technology from prehistory to the present.

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This work stresses the importance, in making any choice of strategies-including the decision to use or refrain from using nuclear weapons-of gauging the intent behind the opponent's military moves. Dr. Brodie also suggests that the use or threat of use of tactical nuclear weapons may lead to de-escalation, that is, may check rather than promote the