How have nuclear weapons affected the way countries deal with one another? The Nuclear Revolution answers this question by comparing the nuclear age with previous periods of international history, from the fifth century B.  Meer

Originally published in 1979, this book is a history of American nuclear weapons policy that tells how the United States learned to live with the bomb.  Meer

The Fate of Nations, published in 1989, identifies and illustrates the basic varieties of security policy, as well as reinterpreting six well-documented historical episodes: Great Britain and the nineteenth-century balance of power system; France between the two world wars; The United States during the Cold War; China from the Communist victory in 1949 to 1976; Israel from the founding of the state in 1948 to the peace treaty with Egypt in 1979; Japan and the international economic order after 1945.  Meer

One of America's leading foreign policy thinkers provides an "important and compelling" look at today's new power realities Thomas L.  Meer