Weapons & Warfare Books


The Great Debate Best Price: $22.00 Originally published by Doubleday in 1969, this topical volume delineates the French position on...	Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers (Csis Significant Issues Series) Best Price: $7.50	Defending Peace and Freedom Best Price: $35.00 The Soviet-American relationship encompasses a broad range of issues, but the strategic...	Nonproliferation Norms: Why States Choose Nuclear Restraint (Studies in Security and International Affairs) Best Price: $14.95 The author poses an interesting question, often underappreciated in the discussions about...	Remington Army and Navy Revolvers 1861-1888 Best Price: $45.42 Remington revolvers constituted the second most widely used handguns among Union forces in the...



Emergency!: Crisis in the Cockpit (Tab) Best Price: $14.01 The only crisis I found with the book is hat the text does not live up to the title. I wanted a...	The Martin B-26 Marauder Best Price: $43.59	The Muzzleloading Hunter	Computer-Based Training of Cannon Fire Direction Specialists/Mr-120-A (Rand Report) Best Price: $13.00	The nuclear Asymptote: On Containing Nuclear Proliferation



Nuclear Weapons: The Peace Movement and the Law	Strategic Defences in the 1990's: Criteria for Deployment (Studies in International Security)	Space and Nuclear Weaponry in the 1990s (Studies in Disarmament and Conflict Series) Best Price: $131.12 A collection of papers that were the result of meetings held in Italy under the auspices of the...	The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: Prospects for the 21st Century Best Price: $65.70 Leading international security scholars and policy advisors from universities, think-tanks, and...	Demobilization in Subsaharan Africa (Macmillan International Politi) Best Price: $129.87 In the early and mid-1990s, several African countries demobilized part of their armed forces....

Preventing Biological Warfare: The Failure of American Leadership Best Price: $124.65 The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention entirely prohibits biological warfare, but it has no...	Hiroshima in America Best Price: $8.41 Hiroshima in America, by Robert Jay Lifton and Greg Mitchell, is an incisive analysis of the...	Living Terrors: What America Needs to Know to Survive the Coming Bioterrorist Catastrophe Best Price: $2.05 This book is a rant, a screed. The first words on the cover are "America is one killer...	Before the Fall-Out: From Marie Curie to Hiroshima Best Price: $25.00 This is a great nonfiction book for anyone with a technical backfround! All of those people we...	Splash One... Hb Best Price: $3.96 Both a complete history of aerial combat in the jet age and the true story behind the idea of...

Critical Masses : Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978 Best Price: $10.95 The nuclear industry was selling the peaceful atom, but people in California werent buying....	Statistics, Testing, and Defense Acquisition: Background Papers Best Price: $41.25 Presents a collection of contributions focusing on weapons systems being developed. Examines...	Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism Best Price: $4.25 In recent years much has happened to justify an examination of biological research in light of...	English-Chinese, Chinese-English Nuclear Security Glossary Best Price: $57.25 The U.S. National Academies Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) and the...	North Korea and the Bomb: A Case Study in Nonproliferation Best Price: $43.35 This book offers the first in-depth history of the greatest diplomatic challenge in the...

Hostile Waters Best Price: $23.49 The Russian nuclear powered, missile carrying (SSBN) submarine K-219 was about 15 years old when...	Poison Gas: The Myths Versus Reality (Contributions in Military Studies) Best Price: $55.00 While not a how-to chemical defense manual, it may be that reading this book will diminish your...	Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Birth of a Regional Nuclear Arms Race? (Praeger Security International) Best Price: $49.29 Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Birth of a Regional Nuclear Arms Race? is an expert...	Zips, Pipes, and Pens: Arsenal of Improvised Weapons In this book, J. David Truby demonstrates why gun control simply doesn't work. Features rare...	Hiroshima Notes Best Price: $25.00 Nobel prize-winner Kenzaburo Oe persistently confronts the hellish dimensions of contemporary...

Gunpowder and Firearms in the Mamluk Kingdom: A Challenge to Medieval Society (1956) Best Price: $140.00 This is one of the few books out there that even deals with the effect of the modernization of...	Hitler's Loss: What Britain and America Gained from Europe's Cultural Exiles Best Price: $11.95 A scrapbook of the lives of famous European cultural exiles."" - Publishers Weekly	Living Under the Threat of Nuclear War (Living Through the Cold War)	Chemical and Biological Warfare (Face the Facts) Best Price: $6.51 What is chemical and biological warfare (CBW)? What is being done to prevent this deadly form of...	109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos Best Price: $5.91 Much has been written about the once secret Manhattan Project, the group of scientists who...

The Panther Tank Best Price: $138.84 Almost anyone with a casual interest in WWII tank history is liable to be under the impression,...	Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism Response Field Guide Best Price: $39.95 Designed for use by front-line fire, law, EMS, public workers. The guide covers such topics as...	Uniforms & Equipment of U.S. Military Advisors in Vietnam: 1957-1972 Best Price: $48.74 A great book! The combination of ARVN and U.S. insignia worn by advisors in Vietnam is featured...	The Great Debate Best Price: $22.00 Originally published by Doubleday in 1969, this topical volume delineates the French position on...	Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers (Csis Significant Issues Series) Best Price: $7.50

Defending Peace and Freedom Best Price: $35.00 The Soviet-American relationship encompasses a broad range of issues, but the strategic...	Nonproliferation Norms: Why States Choose Nuclear Restraint (Studies in Security and International Affairs) Best Price: $14.95 The author poses an interesting question, often underappreciated in the discussions about...	Remington Army and Navy Revolvers 1861-1888 Best Price: $45.42 Remington revolvers constituted the second most widely used handguns among Union forces in the...	Emergency!: Crisis in the Cockpit (Tab) Best Price: $14.01 The only crisis I found with the book is hat the text does not live up to the title. I wanted a...	The Martin B-26 Marauder Best Price: $43.59

The Muzzleloading Hunter	Computer-Based Training of Cannon Fire Direction Specialists/Mr-120-A (Rand Report) Best Price: $13.00	The nuclear Asymptote: On Containing Nuclear Proliferation	German Motorized Artillery and Panzer Artillery in World War II Best Price: $30.54	German Swords of World War II: A Photographic Reference, Vol. 3: DLV, Diplomats, Customs, Police and Fire, Justice, Mining, Railway, Etc. Best Price: $54.95 This book, and the other two volumes, are essential for anyone collecting, or hoping to collect,...

Nuclear Monopoly Best Price: $44.95 Throughout the decades of the Cold War, people all around the world lived in fear of...	Anthrax: A History Best Price: $39.95 Anthrax had reverted to the background of public concerns until 2001, when it surfaced in postal...	Their Arrows Will Darken the Sun: The Evolution and Science of Ballistics Best Price: $16.06 After I purchased this book, I realized that I had already read two others by this same author -...	The Science of War: Canadian Scientists and Allied Military Technology during the Second World War Best Price: $45.00 The Second World War, with its emphasis on innovative weapons and defence technology, brought...	The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition (Stanford Nuclear Age Series) Best Price: $57.95 Now combined in one volume, these two books helped focus national attention in the early 1980s...

Why Taiwan?: Geostrategic Rationales for China's Territorial Integrity (Studies in Asian Security) Best Price: $19.47 Why has the PRC been so determined that Taiwan be part of China? Why, since the 1990s, has...	The Great Cold War: A Journey Through the Hall of Mirrors (Stanford Security Studies) Best Price: $18.57 Gordon Barrass has written a superb book about the Cold War.Usually, I praise or dismiss a book...	Germ Gambits: The Bioweapons Dilemma, Iraq and Beyond (Stanford Security Studies) Best Price: $94.29 Arms control and nonproliferation treaties are among the fingers in the dike preventing the...	Secret Agents: The Menace of Emerging Infections Best Price: $3.90 Madeline Drexler's book is as frightening as she wants it to be. Secret Agents is a...	Air Defense Artillery (Army Lineage Series, Center for Military History Publication No 60-5)

Return to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999 Best Price: $42.90 When the Cold War ended, the world let out a collective sigh of relief as the fear of nuclear...	Cathedrals of Science: The Personalities and Rivalries That Made Modern Chemistry Best Price: $21.43 I enjoyed the book, and relished the little nuggets of knowledge such as : G.N. Lewis invented...	Nuclear Deterrence, Morality and Realism Best Price: $37.55 Rather unfortunately, this book appeared just two years before the end of the Cold War. It...	NATO and the Nuclear Revolution: A Crisis of Credibility, 1966-1967 (Nuclear History Program) Best Price: $195.00 This book deals with the crucially imprtant NATO crises of 1966-67--a period when a number of...	Arms Transfer Limitations and Third World Security (Sipri Publication) Best Price: $111.78 In light of recent international attention on the arms trade and its control, this study...

The Soviet Nuclear Weapon Legacy (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute//S I P R I Research Reports) Best Price: $79.62 The authors describe the control system and the technological base of the nuclear weapon complex...	Humanitarian Military Intervention: The Conditions for Success and Failure (A Sipri Publication) Best Price: $34.49 This study focuses on the questions of when and how military intervention in conflicts can...	Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War Best Price: $5.65 Professor Atwood spends too much time covering his ass in the intro. He apologizes for...	Compendium of Chemical Warfare Agents Best Price: $58.79 Highly lethal chemicals may be the new weapons of choice among terrorist groups throughout the...	The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945-1950

Weapons Proliferation and War in the Greater Middle East Strategic Contest Best Price: $39.55 This important new book explores the strategic reasons behind the proliferation of nuclear,...	The Nuclear Jihadist: The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World's Most Dangerous Secrets...And How We Could Have Stopped Him Best Price: $4.98 This book tells the story of how the Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan managed to steal enough...	Spy Sub: A Top-Secret Mission to the Bottom of the Pacific Best Price: $39.94 Many reviewers seem to have purchased this book expecting something it wasn't. Thus their...	13 Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis Best Price: $45.00 There are many things that a U. S. president must know and much of that comes from documents...	Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War, Physical and Atmospheric Effects (SCOPE Series) (Volume 1) The first volume of a work discussing the state of scientific knowledge of the possible...

Arms and Equipment of the Civil War Best Price: $8.49 First of all I too was quite amazed that so much information can be packed into such a slim...	The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn't Matter--And What Does This study challenges current assumptions of the post-Cold War period that previous dangers...	Samson Option Best Price: $15.00 This book tells how Israel became a secret nuclear power, recounting Israel's clandestine...	Nuclear Illusion, Nuclear Reality: Britain, the United States and Nuclear Weapons, 1958-64 (Nuclear Weapons and International Security Since 1945) Best Price: $108.69 A study of the political, military and technical aspects of Britains nuclear weapons programme...	At the Nuclear Precipice: Catastrophe or Transformation? Best Price: $3.30 At the Nuclear Precipice:Catastrophy or Transformation Edited by Richard Falk and David...

Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War (Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology) Best Price: $55.00 Thousands of nuclear antiaircraft arms were designed, tested and deployed in the United States...	The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel's Bargain with the Bomb Best Price: $23.59 Avner Cohen has excellently researched the subject and exposes it clearly and interestingly. ...	Biosecurity Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question (A Columbia / SSRC Book) Best Price: $21.99 In recent years, new disease threats?such as SARS, avian flu, mad cow disease, and...	Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance (Inside Technology) Winner of the 1993 Ludwik Fleck Prize presented by the Society for Social Studies of Science...	Christianity and war in a nuclear age (Mowbray Christian studies series)

Lethal Frontiers: A Soviet View of Nuclear Strategy, Weapons, and Negotiations Best Price: $108.95 Lethal Frontiers is one of the first samples of Soviet scholarship on nuclear strategy readily...	Decisive Force: The New American Way of War Best Price: $82.95 This is an extremely well written and well researched, incisive study of today's American...	The Imperial War Museum Book of Modern Warfare Best Price: $7.98 Since 1945, British and Commonwealth forces have been involved in fifteen major foreign...	Germ Gambits: The Bioweapons Dilemma, Iraq and Beyond (Stanford Security Studies) Best Price: $19.55 Arms control and nonproliferation treaties are among the fingers in the dike preventing the...	The Sword and the Centuries: Or, Old Sword Days and Old Sword Ways : Being a Description of the Various Swords Used in Civilized Europe During the LA Best Price: $74.14 This colorful and vividly descriptive book traces the sword and its use throughout the Golden...

At War With The Wind Best Price: $5.00 This is a quite remarkable assemblage of anecdotes detailing the carnage wrought by Japanese...	Pistolsmithing Best Price: $115.04 Owning about 30 books on the subject gunsmithing, this book is not one of the best. It lacks...	GAITHER COMMITTEE: EISENHOWER & COLD WAR Best Price: $24.92	One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture Best Price: $40.00 One Nation Underground is a fascinating analysis of the Cold War fallout shelter, the global and...	Deterrence and the Revolution in Soviet Military Doctrine Dramatic changes under way in the Soviet Union and the world have significant implications for...

Nuclear Nonproliferation (Global Issues (Facts on File)) Best Price: $36.06	Guidelines for Analyzing and Managing the Security Vulnerabilities of Fixed Chemical Sites (Ccps Guidelines Series) Best Price: $98.69 This new initiative demonstrates a process and tools for managing the security vulnerability of...	To the Far Side of Hell: The Battle for Peleliu, 1944 (Alabama Fire Ant) Best Price: $8.49 Peleliu was a bitch. Bad intelligence, new Japanese tactics, horrible terrain, tired troops,...

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