Jimmy Carter in Africa: Race and the Cold War
In the mid-1970s, the Cold War had frozen into a nuclear stalemate in Europe and retreated from the headlines in Asia. As Gerald Ford and … Read more
Nuclear Warfare
N = 2 Supergravity in D = 4, 5, 6 Dimensions
This graduate-level primer presents a tutorial introduction to and overview of N = 2 supergravity theories – with 8 real supercharges and in 4, 5 … Read more
Pioneers of Color Science
None This book provides a comprehensive overview of the historical development of color science, told through the stories of more than 90 of the most … Read more
Nagasaki: The Massacre of the Innocent and Unknowing
Using contemporary diaries and letters, mainly translated from Japanese, we follow a group of Nagasaki residents from the early morning of the day of the … Read more
The Vlasov equation 1, History and general properties
None The Vlasov equation is the master equation which provides a statistical description for the collective behavior of large numbers of charged particles in mutual, … Read more
Quantum Communications and Measurement
The International Workshop on Quantum Communications and Measurement was held at the University of Nottingham from July 10-16, 1994. It followed the successful meeting on … Read more
Chernobyl: the history of a nuclear catastrophe
From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the … Read more
Atomic accidents: a history of nuclear meltdowns and disasters: from the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
A Triumph of Soviet Technology — Bill Crush and the Hazards of Steam Under Pressure — We Discover Fire — World War II, and Danger … Read more
Sleepwalking to Armageddon: the Threat of Nuclear Annihilation
Intro; Introduction; 1 Assessing Global Catastrophic Risk; 2 Modernization of Nuclear Weaponry; 3 Nuclear Smoke and the Climatic Effects of Nuclear War; 4 Addicted to … Read more
From MAD to Madness: Inside Pentagon Nuclear War Planning
This deathbed memoir by Dr. Paul H. Johnstone, former senior analyst in the Strategic Weapons Evaluation Group (WSEG) in the Pentagon and a co-author of … Read more