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“bennett ramberg”

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  • Energy and Security in the Industrializing World

    Edited by Raju G. C. Thomas, Bennett Ramberg ...
    Provides detailed analyses of the related concerns of energy needs, the economy, and national security for developing countries—Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, India, Pakistan, South Africa, South Korea, and Taiwan.The essays serve to underline the dangerous problem of nuclear proliferation for several of these countries have uneasy relations with their neighbors. In their detailed reviews of these eight ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Global Nuclear Energy Risks

    The Search For Preventive Medicine

    by Bennett Ramberg ...
    This book addresses the strategic challenges and proposes alternative international remedies set in historical and regulatory contexts that suggest that nations should increase international scrutiny of atomic power in order to minimize risks. . ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • The Quest

    Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

    by Daniel Yergin ...
    **“A sprawling story richly textured with original material, quirky details and amusing anecdotes . . .” —Wall Street Journal“It is a cause for celebration that Yergin has returned with his perspective on a very different landscape . . . [I]t is impossible to think of a better introduction to the essentials of energy in the 21st century. The Quest is . . . the definitive guide to how we got here.” ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Gusher of Lies

    The Dangerous Delusions of ""Energy Independence""

    by Robert Bryce ...
    Everybody is talking about "energy independence." But is it really achievable -- or even desirable? In this controversial, meticulously researched book, Robert Bryce exposes the false promises and political posturing behind the rhetoric. Gusher of Lies explains why the idea of energy independence appeals to voters while also showing that renewable sources like wind and solar cannot meet America's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The New Estonian Golden Age

    How Estonia Will Rise To Be One Of Europe's Five Richest Nations

    by Alexander Grover ...
    The New Estonian Golden Age introduces an alternative view on age-old and controversial topics that are holding up Estonian aspirations of prosperity. Estonia, known as "The Baltic Tiger", is one of New Europe's most impressive economic turn-around stories since gaining independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. They implemented innovative ideas such as flat tax, online voting and e-government. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wretched Atom

    America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology

    by Jacob Darwin Hamblin ...
    A groundbreaking narrative of how the United States offered the promise of nuclear technology to the developing world and its gamble that other nations would use it for peaceful purposes. After the Second World War, the United States offered a new kind of atom that differed from the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This atom would cure diseases, produce new foods, make deserts bloom, ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Atomic Assistance

    How "Atoms for Peace" Programs Cause Nuclear Insecurity

    by Matthew Fuhrmann ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Nuclear technology is dual use in nature, meaning that it can be used to produce nuclear energy or to build nuclear weapons. Despite security concerns about proliferation, the United States and other nuclear nations have regularly shared with other countries nuclear technology, materials, and knowledge for peaceful purposes. In Atomic Assistance, Matthew Fuhrmann argues that governments use ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Curbing the spread of nuclear weapons

    by Ian Bellany ...
    With the 2005 Review Conference of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty in the background, this book provides a fully detailed but accessible and accurate introduction to the technical aspects of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons for the specialist and non-specialist alike. It considers nuclear weapons from varying perspectives, including the technology perspective, which views them as spillovers ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Nuclear Renaissance and International Security

    Edited by Adam N. Stulberg, Matthew Fuhrmann ...
    Interest in nuclear energy has surged in recent years, yet there are risks that accompany the global diffusion of nuclear power—especially the possibility that the spread of nuclear energy will facilitate nuclear weapons proliferation. In this book, leading experts analyze the tradeoffs associated with nuclear energy and put the nuclear renaissance in historical context, evaluating both the causes ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters

    by Hans Blix ...
    Series series Boston Review Books
    From the former UN head weapons inspector in Iraq, a plea for a renewed global disarmament movement.In 2002 Dr. Hans Blix, then chief United Nations weapons inspector, led his team on a search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Before the United States went to war with Iraq the next March, he maintained there were no WMD in Iraq. History proved him right. For more than forty years Dr. Blix ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Unleashing the Nuclear Watchdog: Strengthening and Reform of the IAEA

    by Trevor Findlay ...
    The events at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in March 2011 and the International Atomic Energy Agencys (IAEA) part in the international response to the disaster, underscored the critical role the IAEA continues to play in ensuring global nuclear safety. The worlds hub of cooperation in the nuclear field, the IAEA is the nucleus around which all other parts of the global nuclear governance ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • American Energy Policy in the 1970s

    Edited by Robert Lifset ...
    With Middle East blow-ups, pipeline politics, wind farm controversies, solar industry scandals, and disputes over fracking, it's natural to think that the energy policy debate is at its most intense ever. But it's easy to forget that energy issues dominated the nation's politics in the 1970s as well. Wars were fought, political careers made and unmade, and fortunes gambled and lost, all because of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD