While by no means comprehensive, this list of readings on
nuclear threats, weapons of mass destruction, and U.S. policy and history
regarding the nuclear age will provide the interested reader with a good
background on the subject.
Albright, David, William Walker, and Frans Berkhout. 1993. World Inventory of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Benedict, M., T. Pigford, and H. Levi. 1981. Nuclear Chemical Engineering. 2d
ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Bundy, Mc George. 1988. Danger and Survival:
Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years. New
York: Random House.
Fermi, E. 1949. Nuclear Physics. Edited by J.
Orear, A. H. Rosenfeld, R. A. Schluter. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
Garwin, R. L., and G. Charpak. 2001. Megawatts and Megatons. New
York: Knopf.
Glasstone, Samuel. 1964. The Effects of Nuclear Weapons. Washington,
D.C.: US Atomic Energy Commission.
Gowing, Margaret. 1964. Britain
and Atomic Energy 1939-1945. New
York: St. Martin's Press.
Hersey, John. 1946. Hiroshima. New
York: Alfred A Knopf.
Hetrick, D .L.1993. Dynamics of Nuclear
Reactors. American
Nuclear Society.
Hewlett, Richard G., and Oscar Anderson,
Jr. 1962. The New World, 1939/1946. Volume I: A History
of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. University
Park: Penn State University Press.
Hewlett, Richard G.,
and Francis Duncan. 1964. Atomic Shield 1947/1952:
Volume II of a History of the United States Atomic Energy
Commission. London:
Penn State University Press.
Holloway, David. 1994. Stalin
and the Bomb. New
Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.
Mark, J. C. 1990. Reactor-Grade
Plutonium's Explosive Properties. Nuclear
Control Institute.
Rhodes, Richard. 1986. The
Making of the Atomic Bomb. New
York: Simon and Schuster.
---. 1995. Dark Sun:
The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. New
York: Simon and Schuster.
Sagan, C., and R. P.
Turco. 1990. A Path Where No Man Thought:
Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race. Random
House
Serber, R. 1992. The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build
an Atomic Bomb. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Smythe, H. 1946. Atomic Energy for Military Purposes: The Official Report
on the Development of the Atomic Bomb under the Auspices of the United
States Government 1940-1945. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press.
Trachtenberg, Marc. 1989. "The Influence of Nuclear Weapons in the Cuban
Missile Crisis." International Security 10:137-63.
Weinberg, A.
M. 1958. The Physical Theory of Neutron Chain Reactors. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
York, Herbert F. 1987. Making Weapons,
Talking Peace: A Physicist's Odyssey from Hiroshima to Geneva. New
York: Basic Books.
Zebroski, E. L. 1998. Advanced Nuclear Reactors. Elsevier.
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Arkin, William M., Robert S. Norris, and Joshua Handler. 1998. Taking Stock: Worldwide Nuclear Deployments, 1998. Washington, D.C.: National Resources Defense Council.
Ball, Desmond. 1982/3. "U.S. Strategic Forces: How Would They Be Used?" International
Security 7:31-60.
Brodie, Bernard. 1959. Strategy in the Missile Age. Princeton, N.J.:
Princeton University Press.
Carter, A., J. Steinbruner, and C. Zraket, eds. 1987. Managing Nuclear
Operations. Washington,
D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
Carus, W. Seth. 1992. Cruise Missile
Proliferation in the 1990s. Washington,
D.C.: CSIS.
Goldstein, Avery. 2000. Deterrence and Security in the
21st Century: China, Britain, France, and the Enduring Legacy of the
Nuclear Revolution. Palo
Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
Gleditsch, Kristian. Forthcoming. All
International Politics is Local: The Diffusion of Conflict, Integration
and Democratization. Ann
Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Goldfischer, David, and Thomas Graham.
1992. Nuclear Deterrence and Global Security in Transition. Boulder,
Colo.: Westview Press.
Hagerty, D. 1996. "Nuclear Deterrence in South
Asia: The 1990 Indo-Pakistani Crisis." International Security 20:79-114.
Jervis, Robert. 1989. The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution. Ithaca,
N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
---. 1979/80. "Why Nuclear Superiority
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Johnston,
Alastair Ian. 1996. "China's 'New' Old Thinking: The Concept of
Limited Deterrence." International Security 20:5-42.
Knorr, Klaus,
and Thorton Read, eds. 1962. Limited Strategic War. Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Lake, David A., and Robert Powell,
eds. 1999. Strategic Choice and International Relations. Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton University Press.
International Institute for Strategic
Studies. 2001/02. The Military Balance. London:
Oxford University Press.
Morgan, Patrick. Forthcoming. Deterrence
Now.
Nalebuff, Barry. 1986. "Brinkmanship and Deterrence." Conflict Management
and Peace Science 9:19-30.
Powell, Robert. 1999. In the Shadow
of Power: States and Strategies in International Politics. Princeton,
N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press.
Powell, Robert. 1990. Nuclear Deterrence
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Schelling, Thomas. 1960. The Strategy of Conflict. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press.
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Schwartz, Stephen. 1998. Atomic
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Von Clausewitz, Carl. 1997. On War. Peter Paret
and Michael Howard, eds. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Waltz, Kenneth. 1990. "Nuclear Myths and Political Realities." American
Political Science Review 84:731-45.
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Allison, Graham T., Owen R. Cote, Richard A. Falkenrath, and Steve E. Miller.
1995. Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear
Weapons and Fissile Material. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Arnett, Eric. 1998. Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in South Asia After
the Test Ban. London: Oxford Univ. Press.
Bee, Ronald. 1995. Nuclear
Proliferation: The Post-Cold-War Challenge. New
York: Foreign Policy Association.
Bidwai, Praful, Achin Vanaik, and Arundhati
Roy. 2000. New Nukes: India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament. Interlink
Publishers.
Cohen, Avner. 1998. Israel and the Bomb. New York:
Columbia University Press.
Fisher, Cathleen S., and David Brannegan.
2001. The European Union, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control. Henry
L. Stimson Center, November.
Forsberg, Randall, Gregory Webb, and William
Driscoll. 1995. Nonproliferation Primer: Preventing the Spread of Nuclear,
Chemical, and Biological Weapons. Cambridge,
Mass.: MIT Press.
Gardner, Gary. 1994. Nuclear Nonproliferation. Boulder,
Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Jones, Rodney W., Mark G. McDonough,
Toby F. Dlaton, and Gregory D. Koblentz. 1998. Tracking Nuclear Proliferation:
A Guide in Maps and Charts, 1998. New
York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Karp, Aaron.
1995. Ballistic Missile Proliferation: The Politics and Technics. Stockholm:
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
Litwak, Robert
S. 2000. Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy: Containment After the
Cold War. Baltimore,
Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Mozley, Robert. 1998. The
Politics and Technology of Nuclear Proliferation. Seattle:
University of Washington Press.
Perkovich, George. 1999. India's
Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
Pilat, Joseph, and Robert Pendley,
eds. 1995. 1995: A New Beginning for the NPT? New
York: Plenum.
Reiss, Mitchell. 1995. Bridled Ambition: Why
Countries Constrain Their Nuclear Capabilities. Princeton,
N.J.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press.
Reiss, Mitchell, and Robert
Litwak. 1994. Nuclear Proliferation After the Cold War. Princeton,
N.J.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press.
Roberts, Brad. 1996. Weapons
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Law International.
Sigal, Leon V. 1998. Disarming Strangers:
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N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press.
Solingen, Etel. 1994. "The Political
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Spiegel, Steven., J. Kibbe, and E. Matthews. 2002. The Dynamics of Middle
East Proliferation. Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellon Press.
Thomas Raju G. C., ed., 1998. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: Prospects
for the 21st Century. New York: St. Martins Press.
Utgoff, Victor, ed. 2000. The Coming Crisis: Nuclear Proliferation, U.S.
Interests, and World Order. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
U.S. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment. Nuclear Safeguards and the
International Atomic Energy Agency. 1995. OTA-ISS 615. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Government Printing Office.
Wander, Thomas W., and Eric H. Arnett. 1992. The
Proliferation of Advanced Weaponry: Technology, Motivations, and Responses. Washington,
D.C.: American Assoc. for the Advancement of Sciences.
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Ahmed, S. 1999. "Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program: Turning Points and Nuclear
Choices." International Security 23:178-204.
Allison, G., and A. Kokoshin. 2002. "The New Containment." The National
Interest. Fall.
Blair, Bruce. 1999. The Nuclear Turning Point: A
Blueprint for Deep Cuts and De-Alerting of Nuclear Weapons. Washington,
D.C.: Brookings Institution Press.
Blair, Bruce, et. al. 2001. Toward
True Security: A U.S. Nuclear Posture for the Next Decade. Federation
of American Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council, Union of Concerned
Scientists.
Carter, Ashton. 1984. Ballistic Missile Defense.
Cirincione, Joseph, ed. 2000. Repairing the Regime: Preventing the
Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction. New
York: Routledge.
Feldman, Shai. 1997. Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control
in the Middle East. Cambridge
Mass.: MIT Press.
Goodpaster, Andrew J. 2001. U.S. Nuclear Posture:
Time to Reshape and Realign. The
Eisenhower Institute.
Harrison, Selig S. 1996. Japan's Nuclear Future:
The Plutonium Debate and East Asian Security. New
York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Halperin, Morton. 1972. "The
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Hopkins, John
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The Nuclear Weapons Policies of France, Britain, and China. London:
Transaction Publishers.
Kihl, Whan Young, and Peter Hayes. 1997. Peace
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York: M. E. Sharp.
Koremenos, Barbara. 2001. "Loosening the Ties that
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U.S. Department of Energy. 2001. Audit Report. "Management
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