Weapon Control

A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons. Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs...

American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 presents the epic history of America’s most controversial weapon. In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight...

The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization, whose legacy - and renewal under the Obama administration - threatens the very survival of humanity. It is scarcely possible to estimate the true dangers of our present nuclear policies without penetrating the secret realities of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, when Ellsberg had high-level access to them.

The emergence of autonomous weapons systems—commonly referred to as "killer robots" in popular discourse—represents one of the most consequential technological developments in modern warfare. These systems, capable of selecting and engaging targets without direct human control, are not merely theoretical constructs but increasingly tangible realities that demand urgent examination of their profound implications for international security, conflict dynamics, and the very nature of warfare itself. Let us consider this in the book

Carnage Control – Surviving The Gun God The United States of America is awash in guns with over 270,000,000 in the hands of private individuals. Gun violence and deaths happen at an alarming pace every day and recently, stunning acts of mass shootings have staggered the public’s sensibilities. The final straw may have been the killing of 27 people, including 20 six and seven year old students when Adam Lanza attacked Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut armed with a semiautomatic assault style rifle in December, 2012. Public outrage has led to a renewed effort to curb ...

In a near-future United States obsessed with speed, unity, and global supremacy, the government cannot legally impose blind obedience—so it offers citizens a permanent choice instead: yes… or no? Those who say yes rise through society, gaining power, security, and privilege. Those who say no are not imprisoned, but quietly erased—excluded from opportunity and reduced to irrelevance. Colonel Nathaniel “Nate” Hale is a flawless product of this system. A decorated military officer, he has built his career on loyalty, discipline, and unquestioning compliance. He believes the system is...

This book by military strategist Andrew F. Krepinevich, Jr., is the definitive take on the race for military dominance in the twenty-first century. It shows how militaries that successfully pursue disruptive innovation can gain a major advantage over their rivals, while those that fail to do so risk exposing their countries to great danger.

You can’t defeat what you tolerate. And you can’t cast out what you refuse to discern. The Ahab and Jezebel spirit is not a story, it’s a system. A spiritual agenda designed to silence prophets, destroy families, weaken prayer altars, and dethrone spiritual authority. And it’s likely hiding in places you haven’t even looked. Discerning and Defeating the Ahab and Jezebel Spirit exposes this demonic partnership and its influence in churches, marriages, governments, and bloodlines. This is not just a teaching, it’s a confrontation. Inside, you’ll learn: How Jezebel spirits ...

Amanda Adams is a brilliant research student on the verge of breaking. Crushed by her doctoral thesis and driven by an impossible, icy-cold mentor, she’ll do anything for an edge. When the formidable Professor Smithson offers her a "gift", a private-stock vitamin mist to manage the stress, Amanda gratefully accepts. The relief is immediate. The sharp, adult world of deadlines and data melts into a warm, fuzzy, simple haze. For the first time, her anxiety is gone. She’s sleeping soundly… even if she keeps waking up with her thumb in her mouth. But the "gift" demands a price. Complex ...

Finding Designated Ground Zero, a fact-based historical novel, is the second book of The First Strike Trilogy: the U-2 spy plane soaring 70,000 feet above the earth well out of the reach of Soviet SAMs until May 1, 1960, when Francis Gary Powers was shot down near Sverdlovsk shaking the Eisenhower administration's plans for detente and moving the two superpowers ever closer to a nuclear confrontation. "The powerful imagery brought the horrors and terror of the Cold War and nuclear war as a whole made this a truly atmospheric read." ~ Anthony AvinaCIA Headquarters, Langley, Virginia Office ...

Kenneth Chinran was a disaffected youth who joined the military and was recruited for an elite deep cover unit, completing training and exercises so tough that several of the recruits did not survive. At the peak of his career, he was sent by his star nation to infiltrate a fascistic, militaristic planet: Earth.

A Cold War machine buried beneath the Arctic ice is about to decide the future of the world’s energy supply When former MI6 operative Jack Maddox and his partner Lucia Navarro are drawn into a covert mission in the High Arctic, they uncover the Black Atlas—a secret Soviet system designed to control massive methane reserves beneath the seabed. Now a ruthless private operator intends to seize the installation and weaponise it, while Russian commandos and Western intelligence race toward the same frozen target. Deep beneath the ice, Maddox and Navarro must reach the heart of the machine ...

In this “engrossing, well-documented, and highly readable” (San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller, three veteran reporters draw on top sources inside and outside the U.S. government to reveal Washington's secret strategies for combating germ warfare and the deadly threat of...

My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons pose. In a remarkable career, Perry has dealt firsthand with the changing nuclear threat.

Based on newly discovered, secret documents from German archives, diaries and newspapers of the time, Gun Control in the Third Reich presents the definitive, yet hidden history of how the Nazi regime made use of gun control to disarm and repress its enemies and consolidate power. The countless...

Are nuclear arsenals safe from cyberattack? Could terrorists launch a nuclear weapon through hacking? Are we standing at the edge of a major technological challenge to global nuclear order? These are among the many pressing security questions addressed in Andrew Futter's groundbreaking study of the cyber threat to nuclear weapons.

SHE IS NOT A MURDERER: A Psychological Thriller Some problems can only be solved with blood. Dr. Sara Neuville doesn't consider herself a killer. She's simply a pragmatic problem solver—a brilliant researcher who recognizes that obstacles require creative solutions. For years, her life unfolded exactly according to plan. Groundbreaking research. A perfect marriage. The intoxicating glow of professional admiration. Until suddenly, it didn't. When both her experimental trials and picture-perfect marriage begin to crumble simultaneously, Sara refuses to accept failure. After all, every ...

Mushroom Cloud, a fact-based historical novel, is the first book of The First Strike Trilogy: USA and the Soviet Union are building nuclear arms for a face off in a potential nuclear war in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. "This novel is so important for everyone who cares about nuclear disarmament because as philosopher George Santayana wrote: 'Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.'" ~ Melissa Burch, Bestselling & Award Winning Author My Journey Through War and Peace For a decade, Dr. Caleb Young, a gifted physicist and chief science officer for the CIA, had shaded ...

Emma Fernández lost her daughter in a school shooting in which a man with an assault weapon killed eleven children and their teacher plus the security guard. She copes with her loss by committing herself to the mission of getting Congress to ban assault weapons. She testifies before a House committee to support a bill that would ban such weapons, she joins two national organizations with gun-control missions, and she participates in a major demonstration in Washington to end gun violence. But Congress does nothing, and in the meantime there are almost two mass shootings per day in America....

Gavin reassesses the strategy of flexible response, the influence of nuclear weapons during the Berlin Crisis, the origins of and motivations for US nuclear nonproliferation policy, and how to assess the nuclear dangers we face today. Archival evidence makes it clear that decision makers were more concerned about underlying geopolitical questions than about the strategic dynamic between two nuclear superpowers.