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Provides information about nuclear warfare and weapons which is aimed at helping students determine fact from fiction in relation to the possibility of a nuclear attack on American soil, and discusses how the government tries to prevent such an occurrence.

Depuis une trentaine d'années, on a tendance à amplifier, parfois grossièrement, la portée de la mondialisation et à en déformer la réalité. Selon plusieurs, l'accélération de la mondialisation conduit à l'avènement d'un monde « sans frontières », exacerbant la concurrence entre les nations. Ces critiques face à la mondialisation sont-elles justifiées? C'est en examinant les données sur la performance économique et sociale des...

En mars 2013, une coalition hétéroclite de groupes armés, la Séléka, renverse le président Bozizé de la République centrafricaine (RCA), au pouvoir depuis 2003. Ce coup d'État réduit à néant plus de quinze années d'effort de consolidation de la paix et confirme l'extrême fragilité des institutions centrafricaines. Il force également la communauté internationale à s'interroger sur la pertinence de ces interventions, dont celles des...

"A splendidly illuminating book." -The New York Times Like it or not, George W. Bush has launched a revolution in American foreign policy. He has redefined how America engages the world, shedding the constraints that friends, allies, and international institutions once imposed on its freedom of action. In America Unbound, Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay caution that the Bush revolution comes with serious risks–and, at some point, we may find that...

The term "Mexican Drug War" misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair. But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It's not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico's murderous cartels. It's that ever since the U.S. prohibited the use and sale of drugs in the early 1900s, it has pressured Mexico into...

If you want the truth the anti-gunners don't want you to know...you need a copy of The Bias Against Guns.

Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the marginalized Central Asian republic suddenly found itself with the world's fourth largest nuclear arsenal on its territory. Would it give up these fire-ready weapons-or try to become a Central Asian North Korea? This book takes us inside Kazakhstan's extraordinary and little-known...

The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook, volume 42 (Part II): 2017, with a foreword by the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, summarizes developments and trends in 2017 on key issues of multilateral consideration at the international and regional levels; reviews the activity of the General Assembly, the Conference on Disarmament and the Disarmament Commission; and contains a handy timeline of highlights of multilateral disarmament in 2017....

Le 24 mai 2018, le Secrétaire général a annoncé son Agenda pour le désarmement, qui énonce un ensemble de mesures pratiques concernant toutes les questions de désarmement, y compris les armes de destruction massive, les armes classiques et les futures technologies d'armement. Elle cherche à générer de nouvelles perspectives et à explorer des domaines dans lesquels un dialogue sérieux est nécessaire pour ramener le désarmement au cœur...

The Secretary-General announced on 24 May 2018 his Agenda for Disarmament, which outlines a set of practical measures across the entire range of disarmament issues, including weapons of mass destruction, conventional arms and future weapon technologies. It seeks to generate fresh perspectives and to explore areas where serious dialogue is required to bring disarmament back to the heart of our common efforts for peace and security.