Milton Leitenberg: Pioneering Work on Weapons of Mass Destruction, Wars and Arms Control

This book is a collection of 44 representative publications and papers by Milton Leitenberg.  It allows publications that appeared in journals and books as well as unpublished work prepared for national and international organizations to appear in one place. This makes them accessible to researchers for years and decades to come. These studies made substantial contributions to the area of arms control, particularly on the subjects of nuclear weapons, wars and conflicts, Soviet military studies, biological weapons, and other related international security areas all of which are of continued interest to security studies and political science audiences. 
The primary audience is academics and practitioners in the arms control, security studies, and peace research fields. The book is useful for graduate studies in arms control and peace research.  There is no similar book to this collection.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Biological Weapons.- Chapter 2. The Technological Arms Race: Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles.- Chapter 3. Nuclear Weapon Testing Programme.- Chapter 4. World Stockpile of Nuclear Material.- Chapter 5. The Present State of the World's Arms Race.- Chapter 6. The Classic Scientific Ethic and Strategic Weapon Development.- Chapter 7. Non-Seismic Nuclear Detection.- Chapter 8. Memorandum: "International Level of Funding for Military Research and Development".- Chapter 9. America in Vietnam: Statistics of a War,.- Chapter 10. The Conversion Potential of Military Research and Development Expenditures.- Chapter 11. SALT II: The Race to Oblivion.- Chapter 12. Problems of Environmental Warfare: Weather and Climate Modification, the Evolution of an R&D Program into a Weapon System.- Chapter 13. Accidents of Nuclear Weapon Systems, 1945 to 1976.- Chapter 14. The Military Expenditures of Less Developed Nations as a Proportion of Their State Budgets.- Chapter 15. Disarmament andArms Control Since 1945, A Brief Survey.- Chapter 16. The Concerns of Developing Countries: I. Measure of Structural Violence, Nuclear Weapon Equivalents of Deaths in Developing Countries.- Chapter 17. World-wide Military Coups Since 1945: A Short Note on a Data Collections.- Chapter 18. NATO and WTO Long Range Theatre Nuclear Forces.- Chapter 19. Efforts at Reducing Defense Expenditure in the United States, 1960-1978.- Chapter 20. US Nuclear Weapon Targeting Policy.- Chapter 21. The Case of the Stranded Sub.- Chapter 22. Problems of the Reliability of Armament and Security Information.- Chapter 23. The Impact of the Worldwide Confrontation of the Great Powers: Aspects of Military Intervention and the Projection of Military Power.- Chapter 24. United States-Soviet Strategic Arms Control: The Decade of Détente 1980-1980, And A Look Ahead.- Chapter 25. The Soviet Union and the Lessons of World War II.- Chapter 26. A Return to Sverdlovsk: Allegations of Soviet Activities Related to Biological Weapons.-Chapter 27. What is Military R&D and How does it Function?.- Chapter 28. New Russian Evidence on the Korean War Biological Warfare Allegations: Background and Analysis.- Chapter 29. Just a 1-2 page description of Humanitarian Intervention and Other International Initiatives to Enforce Peace, February 22, 1993.- Chapter 30. Rwanda and Burundi Genocide: A Case Study of Neglect and Indifference.- Chapter 31. Just the Abstract page from Deaths in Wars and Conflicts in the 20^th Century, Cornell University Peace Studies Program, Occasional Paper no 29 (3^rd edition), June 2006.- Chapter 32. Assessing the Threat of Bioterrorism.- Chapter 33. Summary of The Soviet Biological Weapons Program. A History, with Raymond Zilinskas.- Chapter 34. Summary only from China's False Allegations of the Use of Biological Weapons by the United States During the Korean War, Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) Working Paper Series.- Chapter 35. The Hazards of Operations Involving Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War.- Chapter 36. "Did the SARS-CoV-2 virus arise from a bat coronavirus research program in a Chinese laboratory? Very possibly,".- Chapter 37. "China versus SARS".- Chapter 38. "False allegations of biological-weapons use from Putin's Russia".- Chapter 39. "Russian nuclear and biological disinformation undermines treaties on weapons of mass destruction".

About the author

Kathleen M. Vogel is Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, College of Global Futures, and  Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University. Vogel holds a PhD in bio-physical chemistry from Princeton University. She has served in the US Department of State as a Jefferson Science Fellow in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons and as William C. Foster Fellow in the Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction in the Bureau of Nonproliferation. Vogel's overall research interests relate to the study of knowledge production on security and intelligence problems.
Nicole Ball is an independent consultant specializing in democratic security sector governance, conflict management and recovery, and donor financing in conflict-affected states. Since the mid-1990s Ball has conducted assessments, evaluations and lessons learning exercises for multilateral organizations such as the United Nations, the World Bank and the OECD Development Assistance Committee. She has also supported the work of major development assistance donors such as the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, the European Union, Sweden, Germany, Japan and the United States. Ball has held positions at the University of Sussex, the Swedish Institute for International Affairs, the National Security Archive, the Overseas Development Council, the University of Maryland and the Center for International Policy (where she is currently a Senior Fellow Emeritus).            
Milton Leitenberg was trained as a scientist and moved into the field of arms control in 1966. In 1968, Leitenberg was the first American recruited to work at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). He was subsequently affiliated with the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and the Center for International Studies Peace Program at Cornell University, and he has been affiliated with the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy since 1989. His research is widely published; in the years since 1966 he has authored or edited a dozen books or book length studies, and published 198 journal papers, monographs, and book chapters. Among these are major portions of Tactical Nuclear Weapons, European Perspectives, SIPRI (Taylor and Francis, 1978); Great Power Intervention in the Middle East (edited, Pergamon Press, 1979); The Structure of Defense Industry: An International Survey (edited, Croom Helm, 1983); and The Wars in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, 1945 - 1982: A Bibliographic Guide (ABC-Clio, 1984), a book of his selected studies on arms control, Rüstungskontrolle, Rüstung und Sicherheitspolitik [Arms Control, Armament and Security Policy] (Nomos Verlag,1986), and Soviet Submarine Operations in Swedish Waters 1980-1986 (Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1987).
Leitenberg's research work has been concentrated in three disparate areas of study: biological weapons; actual wars and conflicts of the past two decades, and the issue of international intervention in these; and the history of nuclear weapons between the US and USSR between 1945 and 1995.

Summary

This book is a collection of 44 representative publications and papers by Milton Leitenberg.  It allows publications that appeared in journals and books as well as unpublished work prepared for national and international organizations to appear in one place. This makes them accessible to researchers for years and decades to come. These studies made substantial contributions to the area of arms control, particularly on the subjects of nuclear weapons, wars and conflicts, Soviet military studies, biological weapons, and other related international security areas – all of which are of continued interest to security studies and political science audiences. 
The primary audience is academics and practitioners in the arms control, security studies, and peace research fields. The book is useful for graduate studies in arms control and peace research.  There is no similar book to this collection.

Product details

• Assisted by: Nicole Janice Ball (Editor), Nicole Janice Ball (Editor), Milton Leitenberg (Editor), Kathleen Margaret Vogel (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 16.05.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9783031879814
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3187981-4
• No. of pages: 890
• Illustrations: LV, 890 p. 65 illus., 24 illus. in color.
• Series: Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Psychologie, Internationale Beziehungen, Politik und Staat, Political Science, War, foreign policy, Arms Control, Nuclear weapons, Peace and Conflict Studies, Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie, militarism, peace research, Peace Psychology, Environmental Warfare, Military Research, Military expenditures, Arms Race