The book brings together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe to address political and cultural responses to the arms race of the 1980s.

After a tsunami destroyed the cooling system at Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, triggering a meltdown, protesters around the world challenged the use of

Vividly written and based on up-to-date scholarship, this title provides an interpretive overview of the international history of the Cold War.

Although opinions vary on how close anyone came to using nuclear weapons during the Cold War, there is little debate that anxiety about the possibility of nucle

The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold War present. The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. F