{"product_id":"9780062012821","title":"Fire In the East: The Rise of Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn May 11, 1998, India began testing nuclear weapons. \u003cbr\u003eThe world will never be the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Indian test of five atomic bombs, and the Pakistani tests that answered a few weeks later, marked the end of the arms control system that has kept the world from nuclear war for half a century. As Paul Bracken, professor of management and political science at Yale University, explains in this landmark study, they signal the reemergence of something the world hasn't seen since the sixteenth century-modern technologically adept military powers on the mainland of Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFire in the East\u003c\/em\u003e, Professor Bracken reveals several alarming trends and secrets, such as how close Isreal actually came to a germ warfare attack during the Gulf War, why \"globalization\" will spur the development of weapons of mass destruction, how American interests are endangered by Asian nationalism, and how to navigate what he names the second nuclear age. \u003cem\u003eFire in the East\u003c\/em\u003e is a provocative account of how the Western monopoly on modern arms is coming to an end, and how it will forever transform America's role on the stage of international politics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47148001394928,"sku":"9780062012821","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780062012821_p0.jpg?v=1763624696","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780062012821","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}