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Nuclear Weapons This concise book traces the history of nuclear weapons from World War II through the Cold War to the present day. You will also read about issues such as the proliferation of nuclear weapons, missile defense, nuclear testing, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and nuclear terrorism. This book also examines efforts to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes as proposed by President Dwight Eisenhower in his "Atoms for Peace" speech. This edition includes a report prepared by the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey titled "The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki." Table of Contents: Chapter 1: The Atomic Bomb Chapter 2: Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War Chapter 3: Atoms for Peace Chapter 4: Nuclear Weapons and the Public Chapter 5: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Limited Test Ban Treaty Chapter 6: Nuclear Weapons Today Chapter 7: The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Chapter 8: Nuclear Terrorism Chapter 9: Conclusion Appendix: The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Memorandum by the Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force, to the Secretary of Defense on Long Range Detection of Atomic Explosions. (detection of first Soviet Atomic Bomb Test) Memorandum of Conference with the President (1958) Documents on Nuclear Test Ban Negotiations. (during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations) Facts about Fallout. (1955 pamphlet) Worldwide Reaction to Communist China's Third Nuclear Explosion. Joint Statement of the Fourth Round of the Six Party Talks Beijing, September 19, 2005 An Antarctic Solution for the Koreas Effects of Nuclear Blasts President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace Proposal in 1953 Click here to listen to President Eisenhower at the ratification ceremony of the United States joining the International Atomic Energy Agency (Courtesy Eisenhower Library). Click here to listen to President Lyndon Johnson announce the first nuclear test by China on October 16, 1964. (Courtesy Johnson Library). Click here to listen to President Johnson at the signing of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty on July 1, 1968. (Courtesy Johnson Library) Click here to listen to Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev at the signing of the INF Treaty on December 8, 1987. (Courtesy Reagan Library). Web site Copyright © 2008 by William Lambers