Nuclear Weapons - HSS 495 - Senior Research & Writing Seminar

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Britain and the Bomb by David James Gill
Publication Date: 2014
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British Nuclear Weapons and the Test Ban, 1954-73 by John R. Walker
Publication Date: 2010
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China and Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Missiles by Shirley Kan
Publication Date: 2010
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Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era by Vipin Narang
Publication Date: 2014
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Contains chapters on: China, France, India, Pakistan, Israel & South Africa
Slaying the Nuclear Dragon by Tanya Ogilvie-White (Editor); Jacqueline Shire; Howard Wiarda; David Santoro (Editor); Gary Bertsch; Stephen Burgess; Mark Fitzpatrick; Devin T. Hagerty; Marianne Hanson; Togzhan Kassenova; Maria Rost Rublee
Publication Date: 2012
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Toward Deeper Reductions in U. S. and Russian Nuclear Weapons by Micah Zenko
Publication Date: 2010
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The Nuclear Vault: Resources from the Nuclear Documentation Project
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Arms Control Association
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HSS 495 - Senior Research & Writing Seminar: Nuclear Weapons

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