Nuclear weapons

The fact that India was unlikely easily to access other technologies after the enabling US law the so-called "Hyde Act", was legislated in December 2006 by the US Congress. This Act expressly forbids sale or transfer of any technology related to uranium e. ..More

Details the major constraints at the international, domestic and perceptual levels that India has faced in the endeavour to have an independent nuclear capability.. ..More

Offers a portrait of one of the most charismatic and enigmatic figures of modern physics, the leader of the Mahattan Project at Los Alamos, and 'father' of the atomic bomb.. ..More

Presents an account of the emergence of Pakistan's nuclear hero AQ Khan as the world's leading black market salesman of nuclear weapons technology. This book reveals the story of how he sold the most dangerous technology in the world to some of the world's most dangerous states.. ..More

Focuses on the nuclear activities of one or more countries, intermingling what the US believed was happening with accounts of what actually occurred in each country's laboratories, test sites and decision-making councils. This work weaves declassified documents into interviews with the scientists and spies involved in the nuclear espionage.. ..More

Chemical weapons remain the 'poor man's nuke'. Saddam believed his chemical weapons saved him in the first Gulf War. Islamic fundamentalists have been preparing to use ricin for mass poisoning in London. A Japanese doomsday cult used sarin nerve gas on th. ..More

Attempts to consider the questions regarding the nuclearization.. ..More

A study of the complexities of nuclear weapons policies, their far-reaching real and potential consequences for the whole of mankind, and the steps that can be taken to avert the risks and dangers that we all face, whether we are aware of it or not.. ..More