Ronald E Powaski

Biographic Data

ID1467573
NAMERonald E Powaski
GIVEN NAMESRonald E
FAMILY NAMEPowaski
SIGNATUREPOWASKI R E
AFFILIATIONSCleveland State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
H-INDEX0

  • Planning Armageddon

    Ronald E PowaskiARTICLETechnology and Culture2002

    Planning Armageddon is a fascinating and frightening history of the development of Britain's nuclear command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I) capabilities during the period when the United Kingdom emerged as a nuclear power. Basing their work on the recollections of government officials and military officers in both Britain and the United States, and employing recently declassified government documents, Stephen Twigge and Len Scot…

  • Russia

    Ronald E PowaskiARTICLECurrent History1999

    Essay| October 01 1999 Russia: The Nuclear Menace Within Ronald E. Powaski Ronald E. Powaski Ronald E. Powaski is an instructor in history at Cleveland State University, His most recent book, Return from Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1991-1999, will be published by Oxford University Press this December. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1999) 98 (630): 340–345. ht…

  • The Antinuclear Movement wasEffective-But Not Completely

    Ronald E Powaski, Ronald PowaskiARTICLEDiplomatic History1999

    Book reviewed in this article: Lawrence S. Wittner, Resisting the Bomb: A History of the World Disarmament Movement, 1954-1970 This brilliantly written and prodigiously researched volume is an excellent example of multinational history. Wittner conducted research in fifteen countries, on more than a hundred peace groups and government agencies. Many of the documents – such as those drawn from the files of the U.S. State Department, the Atomic Ene…

  • Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal

    Ronald E Powaski, Rodney P Carlisle et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1999

    This work looks at the origin and development of the government-owned reactors that produce weapons-grade plutonium and tritium. The authors describe a 50-year US government effort no less complex, expensive, and technologically demanding than the Polaris or Apollo programmes. The evolution of the early reactors is described, as is the weapons establishment that surrounded them, and the sometimes bitter struggles between business and political co…

  • The Entangling Alliance

    Douglas Eden, Ronald E PowaskiARTICLEJournal of American History1995

    Journal Article The Entangling Alliance: The United States and European Security, 1950–1993. By Ronald E. Powaski. (Westport: Greenwood, 1994. xxii, 261 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-313-27275-1.) Get access Douglas Eden Douglas Eden Middlesex University, London, England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 2, September 1995, Page 829, https://doi.org/10.2307/2082382 Published…

  • Toward an Entangling Alliance

    David F Trask, Ronald E PowaskiARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article Toward an Entangling Alliance: American Isolationism, Internationalism, and Europe, 1901–1950. By Ronald E. Powaski. (Westport: Greenwood, 1991. xxiv + 288 pp. $45.00.) Get access Toward an Entangling Alliance: American Isolationism, Internationalism, and Europe, 1901–1950. By Powaski Ronald E.. (Westport: Greenwood, 1991. xxiv + 288 pp. $45.00.) David F. Trask David F. Trask Washington, D.C. Search for other works by this author …