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Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Clean text. Nice condition overall.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 646 pages. 9.25x7.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Wraps. Presumed first edition/first printing. [5], 120-402 p. Includes illustrations. Notes. This is a product of The James Martin Center for Nonproliferaiton studies. From Wikipedia: "The Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) is a graduate school of Middlebury College, located in Monterey, California, USA. Founded in 1955 and formally declared a Graduate School of Middlebury College in 2010, the Institute specializes in international policy, environmental policy, international business, language teaching, and translation and interpretation. The Institute comprises two graduate professional schools: the Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, and Language Education and the Graduate School of International Policy and Management. In addition to the two graduate schools, the Institute is home to five research centers. The Institute awards Masters of Arts (M.A. ), Master of Business Administration (MBA), Masters of Public Administration (MPA), and numerous certificates across a variety of disciplines. The Institute's mission is to create an academic community committed to preparing the next generation of leaders to "Be the Solution" in cross-cultural, multilingual environments. In 2011, the Institute produced more Fulbright Fellows per capita than any other graduate school in the US." From an on-line posting: "James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), located at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, is the largest non-governmental organization in the United States devoted exclusively to research and training on nonproliferation issues. Its purpose is to contend against the spread of weapons of mass destruction. There are five research programs offered by the CNS: the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program, the East Asia Nonproliferation Program, the International Organization and Nonproliferation Program, the Proliferation Research and Assessment Program, and the Newly Independent States Nonproliferation Program." Very good. No dust jacket. Cover has minor wear and soiling.

Trade paperback. Zustand: Good. First Printing [Stated]. xx, [2], 680, [2] pages. Footnotes. Figures. Illustrations. Maps. Tables. Cover has some wear and soiling, and corner bumped. Contribution authors include: Bruce G. Blair, Thomas S. Blanton, William Burr, Steven M. Kosiak, Arjun Makhajani, Robert S. Norris, Kevin O'Neill, John E. Pike, and William J. Weida. Contents include Foreword, Abbreviations and Acronyms, A Methodological Note, Introduction, Building the Bomb, Deploying the Bomb, Targeting and Controlling the Bomb, Defending Against the Bomb, Dismantling the Bomb, Nuclear Waste Management and Environmental Remediation, Victims of the Bomb, The Costs and Consequences of Nuclear Secrecy, Congressional Oversight of the Bomb, The Economic Implications of Nuclear Weapons, Strengthening Atomic Accountability, Appendix A. U.S. Nuclear Weapon Production Costs, 1948-96; Appendix F. Selected DOD Nuclear Weapons Program Costs, 1962-95; Appendix C. Nuclear Weapons Production and Naval Nuclear Propulsion Facilities; Appendix D Assessing the Costs of Other Nuclear Weapon States; Appendix E Steering Committee of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project; Selected Bibliography, Index. Stephen I. Schwartz is a senior fellow at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. He served as editor of The Nonproliferation Review; publisher and executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; project director at the Brookings Institution; and Washington representative for the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability. He is the author of numerous articles and reports, editor and co-author of Atomic Audit. Since 1945, the United States has manufactured and deployed more than 70,000 nuclear weapons to deter and if necessary fight a nuclear war. Some observers believe the absence of a third world war confirms that these weapons were a prudent and cost-effective response to the uncertainty and fear surrounding the Soviet Union's military and political ambitions during the cold war. As early as 1950, nuclear weapons were considered relatively inexpensive providing "a bigger bang for a buck" and were thoroughly integrated into U.S. forces on that basis. Yet this assumption was never validated. Indeed, for more than fifty years scant attention has been paid to the enormous costs of this effort, more than $5 trillion thus far, and its short and long-term consequences for the nation. Based on four years of extensive research, Atomic Audit is the first book to document the comprehensive costs of U.S. nuclear weapons, assembling for the first time anywhere the actual and estimated expenditures for the program since its creation in 1940. The authors provide a unique perspective on U.S. nuclear policy and nuclear weapons, tracking their development from the Manhattan Project of World War II to the present day and assessing each aspect of the program, including research, development, testing, and production; deployment; command, control, communications, and intelligence; and defensive measures. They also examine the costs of dismantling nuclear weapons, the management and disposal of large quantities of toxic and radioactive wastes left over from their production, compensation for persons harmed by nuclear weapons activities, nuclear secrecy, and the economic implications of nuclear deterrence. Utilizing archival and newly declassified government documents and data, this richly documented book demonstrates how a variety of factors, the open-ended nature of nuclear deterrence, faulty assumptions about the cost-effectiveness of nuclear weapons, regular misrepresentation of and overreaction to the Soviet threat, the desire to maintain nuclear superiority, bureaucratic and often arbitrary decisions, pork barrel politics, and excessive secrecy, all drove the acquisition of an arsenal far larger than what many contemporary civilian and military leaders deemed necessary. Atomic Audit concludes with recommendations for strengthening atomic accountability and fostering greater public understanding of nuclear weapons programs and policies.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 384 pages. 10.00x7.00x1.02 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 500 pages. 9.25x7.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 416 pages. 11.00x9.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 492 pages. 8.75x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 1st edition. 320 pages. 10.00x7.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 224 pages. 12.25x9.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 328 pages. 10.00x7.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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First edition, signed limited issue of the second in a series of wartime poetry anthologies selected by Oscar Williams, this being the first to be issued as a signed limited edition. Octavo, original three quarter buckram over marbled boards, top edge gilt. One of 26 lettered copies available for sale and signed by 31 of the 32 contributors (W. R. Rogers is absent as is the case with all copies), this is copy V (of 58 as 32 copies were reserved for the contributors). Signed by Conrad Aiken, Kenneth Allott, W. H. Auden, George Barker, John Peale Bishop, R. P. Blackmur, Hugh Chisholm, Gene Derwood, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, Jean Garrigue, Horace Gregory, Alfred Hayes, Ruth Herschberger, Randall Jarrell, Robinson Jeffers, C. Day Lewis, Archibald Macleish, Louis Macneice, Marianne Moore, Howard Nemerov, Frederic Prokosch, Muriel Rukeyser, Delmore Schwartz, Winfield Townley Scott, Karl Shapiro, Theodore Spencer, Stephen Spender, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Robert Penn Warren, and Oscar Williams. In near fine condition with a remnant of the original glassine. Housed in the original publisher's slipcase which is in very good condition. Rare and desirable in the original binding. "Poetry is an unacknowledged war industry. It is a known but unmitigated error of many intelligent people to look down on poetry as if it were a feather in the hat on a stormy day, curlicues on the fringe of nothing, play for an idle moment between major issues. Hence the infinite indifference to poetry in a society badly in need of it, but offering to it, as to Christianity, a meaningless lip service. Poetry is a necessity wearing the trapping of a luxury. It is a way to live, and a way to evaluate that way. It is a way of seeing, and therefore of believing" (Oscar Williams, Introduction).