Status of the Peacekeeper (MX) Weapon System
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 28
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The Future of the U.S. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Force
Author: Lauren Caston
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 0833076264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors assess alternatives for a next-generation intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) across a broad set of potential characteristics and situations. They use the current Minuteman III as a baseline to develop a framework to characterize alternative classes of ICBMs, assess the survivability and effectiveness of possible alternatives, and weigh those alternatives against their cost.
Status of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Modernization Program
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Second Nuclear Age
Author: Colin S. Gray
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781555873318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author takes issue with the complacent belief that a happy mixture of deterrence, arms control and luck will enable humanity to cope adequately with weapons of mass destruction, arguing that the risks are ever more serious.
GAO Documents
Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 496
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Monthly List of GAO Reports
Author:
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 16
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Arsenals of Folly
Author: Richard Rhodes
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-11-04
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0375713948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War. In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the incredible events that followed. In this thrilling, authoritative narrative, Richard Rhodes draws on personal interviews with both Soviet and U.S. participants and a wealth of new documentation to unravel the compelling, shocking story behind this monumental time in human history—its beginnings, its nearly chilling consequences, and its effects on global politics today.
Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
Author: Paul Scharre
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2018-04-24
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 0393608999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 2019 William E. Colby Award "The book I had been waiting for. I can't recommend it highly enough." —Bill Gates The era of autonomous weapons has arrived. Today around the globe, at least thirty nations have weapons that can search for and destroy enemy targets all on their own. Paul Scharre, a leading expert in next-generation warfare, describes these and other high tech weapons systems—from Israel’s Harpy drone to the American submarine-hunting robot ship Sea Hunter—and examines the legal and ethical issues surrounding their use. “A smart primer to what’s to come in warfare” (Bruce Schneier), Army of None engages military history, global policy, and cutting-edge science to explore the implications of giving weapons the freedom to make life and death decisions. A former soldier himself, Scharre argues that we must embrace technology where it can make war more precise and humane, but when the choice is life or death, there is no replacement for the human heart.
New Books
Author: National Defense University. Library
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13:
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Author: Kenneth Kitts
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 214
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKKenneth Kitts offers entry into the highly political, behind-closed-doors world of blue-ribbon investigative commissions convened in the aftermath of national security crises. Ranging from Pearl Harbor to the September 11 terrorist attacks, Kitts takes the reader into the backroom to watch as presidents, their advisers, and commission members confront an armory of pressures. With rich detail and accounts of political intrigue, he reveals just how and when presidents reach for the blue-ribbon option to try to defuse crises, deflect criticism, and maintain control of national security policy - and how presidential expectations are sometimes unmet, as commissions issue damning reports with unforeseen and explosive consequences.
