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In December 2016, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved their iconic "Doomsday Clock" thirty seconds forward to two and a half minutes to midnight, the latest it has been set since 1952, the year of the first United States hydrogen bomb test. But a group of scientists-geologists, engineers, and physicists-has been fighting to turn back the clock. Since the dawn of the Cold War, they have advocated a halt to nuclear testing, their work culminating in the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which still awaits ratification from China, Iran, North Korea-and the United States. The backbone of the treaty is every nation's ability to independently monitor the nuclear activity of the others. The noted seismologist Lynn R. Sykes, one of the central figures in the development of the science and technology used in monitoring, has dedicated his career to halting nuclear testing. In Silencing the Bomb, he tells the inside story behind scientists' quest for disarmament.Called upon time and again to testify before Congress and to inform the public, Sykes and his colleagues were, for much of the Cold War, among the only people on earth able to say with certainty when and where a bomb was tested and how large it was. Methods of measuring earthquakes, researchers realized, could also detect underground nuclear explosions. When politicians on both sides of the Iron Curtain attempted to sidestep disarmament or test ban treaties, Sykes was able to deploy the nascent science of plate tectonics to reveal the truth. Seismologists' discoveries helped bring about treaties limiting nuclear testing, but it was their activism that played a key role in the effort for peace. Full of intrigue, international politics, and hard science used for the global good, Silencing the Bomb is a timely and necessary chronicle of one scientist's efforts to keep the clock from striking midnight.

Nuclear weapons --- Nuclear arms control. --- Nuclear weapons control --- Arms control --- Testing. --- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty --- Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty --- CTBT --- Sykes, L. R. --- Sykes, Lynn Ray

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This important collection of essays brings together the work of prominent philosophers, political scientists, policy analysts, and defence consultants. It takes as its point of departure two central tendencies in current nuclear strategy: mutual assured destruction (MAD) and nuclear utilization target selections (NUTS). The essays examine and assess the arguments for these and other positions on the spectrum of policy options, and elaborate the implications of this analysis for strategic policy and for the further pursuit of research into SDI, and other matters.

Nuclear arms control --- Deterrence (Strategy) --- Nuclear weapons control --- Arms control --- Nuclear weapons --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy

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"...explores the roles played by various actors in the domestic governance of nuclear weapons in eight possessor states--the USA, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, Israel, India, and Pakistan..." -- p.2

Polemology --- 872 Massavernietigingswapens --- 873 Wapenbeheersing --- Civil-military relations --- Nuclear arms control --- Nuclear weapons control --- Arms control --- Nuclear weapons --- Military and civilian power --- Military-civil relations --- Executive power --- Sociology, Military --- Military government --- Decision making --- Government policy

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Nuclear arms control --- -Nuclear arms control --- -Confidence and security building measures (International relations) --- CBMs (International relations) --- Confidence building measures (International relations) --- CSBMs (International relations) --- Arms control --- International relations --- Nuclear weapons control --- Nuclear weapons --- Confidence and security building measures (International relations)

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POLITICAL SCIENCE --- International Relations / Arms Control --- Nuclear arms control --- Strategic forces --- International Law --- Law, Politics & Government --- International Cooperation --- Congresses --- International CooperationCongresses --- Nuclear weapons control --- Armed Forces --- Deterrence (Strategy) --- Strategy --- Arms control --- Nuclear weapons