world politics

Journalist Thomas L. Friedman presents commentaries he wrote surrounding the September 11 terrorist attacks, spanning December 2000 through July 2002, as well as a diary of his travels to such places as Afghanistan and Israel in the months following the attacks.

A collection of essays by military historian Victor Davis Hanson which explore the impact the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, and the War on Terror has had on American culture and society.

Takes a pro/con approach to several issues relating to the Cold War, and provides a chronology, a bibliography, study questions, and an appendix of primary documents.

Photographs and text recount the unraveling of Communism and the entire Soviet system while explaining the background and effects of the animosity between the U.S.S.R. and the noncommunist world.

Details the race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union for superiority in atomic weaponry since the inception of the Manhattan Project in 1939, and analyzes the danger of unleashing phenomenally destructive weapons upon the world.

Companion volume to the television series The global rivals. Describes the forty-year contest for supremacy between America and the Soviet Union.

Describes the history, dangers, and types of weapons of mass destruction, including biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons; and discusses the conflicts and wars involving these weapons and their impact on nations around the world.

Chronicles the Cold War, from its origins in the Soviet Revolution as the twentieth century began to the collapse of the Soviet Union as the century closed.

Recounts the history of nuclear weapons.