E-book A Nuclear Refrain : Emotion, Empire, and the Democratic Potential of P…

A Nuclear Refrain is a piece of “spatial fic-tion” that challenges vital but neglected is-sues around the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction and the concomitant policy of nuclear deterrence. We issue this challenge via the extension of our geographical imagi-nations into the past, present, and future.The UK’s 2016 decision to replace its Vanguard submarine fleet, as a major step to-w…

E-book Ploughshares and Swords : India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War

A major corporate scandal broke out in London in 1916. It was over German control of monazite sands in the princely state of Tiruvitamkur, anglicized as Travancore, in British India. Travancore was home to one of the world’s largest monazite deposits. Monazite was a major source of thorium nitrate used in incandescent gas mantles for street lighting— a cheap alternative to electric ligh…

E-book Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Cr…

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E-book Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction

Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. As Bill Clinton's first secretary of defence, Les Aspin, aptly put it: 'The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is no more. But the post-Cold War world is decidedly not post-nuclear'. For all the effort to reduce nuclear stockpiles to zero, it seems that the…

E-book Beyond Nuclear Ambiguity : The Iranian Nuclear Crisis and the Joint Co…

he Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action attempted to end this trend by limiting Iran’s nuclear program only to peaceful goals and by creating an unprecedented inspection mechanism. In other words, the nuclear deal tried to go beyond the previous history of nuclear ambiguity. As mentioned previously, the thesis will address the trajectory of the Iranian nuclear crisis from the origins of the nuc…