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Road to Peace: From the Disarming of the Great Lakes to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
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Nuclear Weapons
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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