Books

• General History
• Arms Control
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation
• Disarmament
• Nuclear Testing
• Nuclear Waste
• Nuclear Energy
• Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction
• Law Related
• Nuclear Weapons States
• New Nuclear States
• United States of America
• Russia
• Britain
• France
• China
• India
• Pakistan
• The Middle East
• Korea
• Latin America
• NGOs

General History

Baylis, John and O'Neill, Robert John. Alternative Nuclear Futures : the Role of Nuclear Weapons in the Post-Cold War World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Cimbala, Stephen J. Nuclear Strategy in the Twenty-First Century. Westport: Praeger, 2000.

Cranston, Senator Alan. The Sovereignty Revolution. Stanford University Press: 2004. see: www.gsinstitute.org

Henderson, Harry. Nuclear Power : A Reference Handbook. Series: Contemporary World Issues. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2000.

Heuser, Beatrice. The Bomb : Nuclear Weapons in their Historical, Strategic, and Ethical Context. Turning Points. New York : Longman, 2000.

Hilsman, Roger. From Nuclear Military Strategy to a World Without War : A History and a Proposal . Westport. : Praeger, 1999.

Howes, Ruth H. and Herzenberg, Caroline L. Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999.

Jones, Rodney W. and McDonough, Mark G. with Dalton, Toby and Koblentz, Gregory. Tracking Nuclear Proliferation: A Guide in Maps and Charts. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1998.

Moxley, Charles J. Nuclear Weapons and International Law in the Post Cold War World. Lanham : Austin & Winflield, 2000.

Parrish, Albert G. "Radiation" the Silent Killer: Nuclear and Chemical Research Involving Our Military Personnel in the Development of the Atomic Bomb

Payne, Keith B. The Fallacies of Cold War Deterrence and a New Direction. Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 2001.

Pry, Peter Vincent. War Scare : Russia and America on the Nuclear Brink. Westport. : Praeger, 1999.

Renaker, John. Dr. Strangelove & the Hideous Epoch : Deterrence in the Nuclear Age. Claremont: Regina Books, 2000.

Schweber, S. S. (Silvan S.) In the Shadow of the Bomb : Bethe, Oppenheimer, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist. Series: Princeton Series in Physics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

Arms Control

Beckman, Peter R. The Nuclear Predicament : Nuclear Weapons in the Twenty-First Century. Upper Saddle River : Prentice Hall, 2000.

Bernauer, Thomas. Ruloff, Dieter. The Politics of Positive Incentives in Arms Control. Series: Studies in International Relations (Columbia, S.C.) Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 1999.

Bowen, Wyn Q. The Politics of Ballistic Missile Nonproliferation. Series: Southampton Studies in International Policy. Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1999.

Brown, James. Arms Control in a Multi-Polar World . Amsterdam : VU University Press, 1996.

Carter, Leon T. Arms Control and Nonproliferation : Issues and Analyses. Huntington : Nova Science Publishers, 2000.

Feiveson, Harold A. Blair, Bruce G. The Nuclear Turning Point : A Blueprint For Deep Cuts and De-Alerting of Nuclear Weapons. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution, 1999.

Gallagher, Nancy W. The Politics of Verification . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.

Gray, Colin S. The Second Nuclear Age . Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999.

Hackel, Erwin. Stein, G. (Gotthard). Tightening the Reins : Towards a Strengthened International Nuclear Safeguards System. Berlin ; New York: Springer, 2000.

Mutimer, David. The Weapons State : Proliferation and the Framing of Security. Series: Critical Security Studies. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2000.

Sauer, Tom. Nuclear Arms Control : Nuclear Deterrence in the Post-Cold War Period. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Schneider, Barry R. Dowdy, William L. Pulling Back from the Nuclear Brink : Reducing and Countering Nuclear Threats. London ; Portland: F. Cass, 1998.

Sokolski, Henry. Ludes, James M. Twenty-First Century Weapons Proliferation : Are We Ready? London ; Portland : Frank Cass, 2001.

Nuclear Non-Proliferation

Bailey, Kathleen C. Strengthening Nuclear Non-Proliferation. Boulder: Westview Press, 1993.

Bates, Brian and McHorney, Chris. Developing a Theoretical Model of Counterproliferation for the 21st Century. Series: Studies in World Peace ; v. 12. Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.

Chatterjee, Shibashis. Nuclear Non-Proliferation and the Problem of Threshold States . Calcutta : Minerva Associates, 1999.

Cirincione, Ed. Repairing the Regime: Preventing the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Routledge, 2001.

Foran, Virginia. Missed Opportunities? : the Role of Security Assurances in Nuclear Non-Proliferation. Washington, DC : Brookings Institution, 1996.

Jaspers, Huub, ed. Beyond the Bomb: The Extension of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Future of Nuclear Weapons. Amsterdam: Transnational Institute (TNI), World Information Service on Energy (WISE), Greenpeace International, 1996.

Mazarr, Michael J. Nuclear Weapons in a Transformed World : the Challenge of Virtual Nuclear Arsenals. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Mozley, Robert Fred. The Politics and Technology of Nuclear Proliferation. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1998.

Muller, Harald. Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Global Order. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

Paul, TV ed. The Absolute Weapon Revisited: Nuclear Arms and the Emerging International Order. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998.

Paul, T. V. Power Versus Prudence : Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000.

Posen, Barry R. Inadvertent Escalation: Conventional War and Nuclear Risks. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Rogers, Paul. Losing Control - Global Security in the Twenty-First Century. London and Sterling: Pluto Press, 2000.

Thomas, Raju G. C. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime : Prospects for the 21st Century. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Van Creveld, Martin. Nuclear Proliferation and the Future of Conflict. New York: The Free Press, 1993.

Disarmament

Asahi Shinbun. The Road to the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. Tokyo : Asahi Shimbun, c1999.Paulos Gregorios. Disarmament and Nuclear Weapons. Delhi : Mar Gregorios Foundation & ISPCK, 1998.

Baylis, John. O'Neill, Robert John. Alternative Nuclear Futures : the Role of Nuclear Weapons in the Post-Cold War World . New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Blackaby, Frank Thomas. Milne, Tom. A Nuclear-Weapon-Free-World : Steps Along the Way. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Caldicott, Helen. Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1994.

Clark, Roger S. and Sann, Madeline, Eds. The Case Against the Bomb. Camden: Rutgers University School of Law, 1996.

Dumas, Lloyd J. Lethal Arrogance: Human Fallibility and Dangerous Technologies. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.

Goldblat, Jozef. Nuclear Disarmament : Obstacles to Banishing the Bomb. Series: Human Security and Global Governance. London : I.B. Tauris in association with the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, 2000.

Green, Robert D. Fast Track to Zero Nuclear Weapons : the Middle Powers Initiative. Cambridge : Middle Powers Initiative, 1999.

Herring, Eric. Preventing the Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction. London ; Portland: Frank Cass, 2000.

Kalinowski, Martin B., Ed. Global Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000.

Rotblat, Joseph. Nuclear Weapons : the Road to Zero. Series: Pugwash Monograph. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998.

Russell, Bertrand. Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare. London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

Schell, Jonathan. The Fate of the Earth ; and, The Abolition. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2000.

Schell, Jonathan. The Gift of Time : the Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now.
New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company, 1998.

Schell, Jonathan. The Unfinished Twentieth Century. London and New York: Verso Books, 2001

Nuclear Testing

Mikhailov, V. N. (Viktor Nikitovich). Catalog of Worldwide Nuclear Testing. New York : Begell House, 1999.

Shapiro, Charles S. Atmospheric Nuclear Tests : Environmental and Human Consequences. Series: NATO ASI series. Partnership Sub-Series 2, Environment ; v. 35. Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, 1998.

Walker, J. Samuel. Permissible Dose : a History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.

Nuclear Waste

Makhijani, Arjun, Hu, Howard, and Yih, Katherine, eds. Nuclear Wastelands: A Global Guide to Nuclear Weapons Production and Its Health and Environmental Effects. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1995.

Williams, David R. What is Safe? : the Risks of Living in a Nuclear Age. Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry, Information Services, 1998.

Woodside, Gayle. Hazardous Materials and Hazardous Waste Management. New York : John Wiley & Sons, 1999.

Nuclear Energy

Atkins, Stephen E. Historical Encyclopedia of Atomic Energy. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Makhijani, Arjun and Saleska, Scott. The Nuclear Deception: US Nuclear Mythology from Electricity "Too Cheap to Meter" to "Inherently Safe" Reactors. A Report of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. New York: The Apex Press, 1999.

Murray, Raymond LeRoy. Nuclear Energy : an Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes. Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001.

Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Bodansky, Yossef. Bin Laden : The Man who Declared War on America. Rocklin: Forum/Prima, 1999.

Burke, Robert. Counter-Terrorism for Emergency Responders. Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers, 2000.

Cameron, Gavin. Nuclear Terrorism : a Threat Assessment for the 21st Century. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Combs, Cindy C. Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1997.

Dumas, Lloyd J. Lethal Arrogance: Human Fallibility and Dangerous Technologies. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Falkenrath, Richard A. America's Achilles' Heel : Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack. Series: BCSIA Studies in International Security. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998.

Hoffman, Bruce. Illicit Trafficking in Nuclear Materials. Series: Conflict Studies ; no. 314/315 .Leamington Spa, Warwickshire <England> : Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism, 1999.

Kaplan, David E. The Cult at the End of the World : the Terrifying Story of the Aum Doomsday Cult, From the Subways of Tokyo to the Nuclear Arsenals of Russia. New York: Crown Pub., 1996.

Kushner, Harvey W. The Future of Terrorism : Violence in the New Millennium. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1998.

Lee, Rensselaer W., Smuggling Armageddon : the Nuclear Black market in the Former Soviet Union and Europe. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Stern, Jessica, The Ultimate Terrorists. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Tanter, Raymond. Rogue Regimes : Terrorism and Proliferation. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Law Related

Legality of the Use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflict , International Court of Justice, July 1996, http://www.law.cornell.edu/icj/icj2/anw-003f.htm

Athanasopulos, Haralambos. Nuclear Disarmament in International Law. Jefferson: McFarland & Co., 2000.

Burroughs, John. The Illegality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: A Guide to the Historic Opinion of the ICJ. International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms. Munster: Lit Verlag, 1997.

Ginger, Ann Fagan. Nuclear Weapons Are Illegal: The Historic Opinion of the World Court and How it Will Be Enforced. New York: Apex Press, 1998.

Meyer, Howard. The World Court in Action: Judging Among the Nations. Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. http://www.lcnp.org/pubs/howardmeyerbook.htm.
A new book accessibly and informatively explaining the history of the International Court of Justice, including the nuclear weapons case and much more, Howard Meyer is a social historian and attorney and member of the board of the Lawyers' Committee on Nuclear Policy.

Moxley, Charles .Nuclear Weapons and International Law in the Post Cold War World. University Press, 2000. It measures US nuclear policy against the law of armed conflict as stated in US military manuals and
finds that it cannot comply with that law - see http://www.lcnp.org/pubs/moxleybook.htm

Nuclear Weapons States

Bajpai, Kanti P. and Mattoo, Amitabh. The Peacock and the Dragon : India-China Relations in the 21st Century. Series: Foreign Policy, Peace, and Security Series. New Delhi : Har-Anand Publications, c2000.

Blair, Bruce. De-Alerting Strategic Forces. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2001.

Conley, Jerome M. Indo-Russian Military and Nuclear Cooperation : Lessons and Options for U.S. Policy in South Asia. Lanham : Lexington Books, 2001.

Ebel, Robert E. U.S.-China Commercial Nuclear Commerce : Nonproliferation and Trade Issues. Washington, D.C. : Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1997.

Goldstein, Avery. Deterrence and Security in the 21st Century : China, Britain, France, and the Enduring Legacy of the Nuclear Revolution. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000.

Hayes, Peter. Pacific Powderkeg : American Nuclear Dilemmas in Korea. Lexington: Lexington Books, 1991.

Heuser, Beatrice. Nuclear Mentalities? : Strategies and Beliefs in Britain, France, and the FRG. Houndmills : New York : Macmillan ; St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Hopkins, John C. and Hu, Weixing, eds. Strategic Views from the Second Tier : the Nuclear Weapons Policies of
France, Britain, and China. New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A. : Transaction Publishers, 1995.

Larkin, Bruce D. Nuclear Designs : Great Britain, France, and China in the Global Governance of Nuclear Arms. New Brunswick (U.S.A.) : Transaction, 1996.

Matinuddin, Kamal. The Nuclearization of South Asia. Oxford University Press, 5 Bangalore Town, Sharae Faisal, Karach, 2002.

Subramanyam Raju, A. Democracies at Loggerheads : Security Aspects of US-India Relations. New Delhi : South Asian Publishers, 2001.

Zhang, Ming. China's Changing Nuclear Posture : Reactions to the South Asian Nuclear Tests. Washington, D.C. : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1999.

New Nuclear Weapon States

Lavoy, Peter R., Sagan, Scott D., and Wirtz, James J., eds. Planning The Unthinkable: How New Powers Will Use Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.

United States of America

Bethe, Hans A. The Road from Los Alamos. New York: Simon & Shuster, 1991.

Farrell, Theo. Weapons Without a Cause : the Politics of Weapons Acquisition in the United States. London : Macmillan ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Grossman, Karl. The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat to our Planet. Monroe: Common Courage Press, 1997.

Lodal, Jan. The Price of Dominance : the New Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Challenge to American Leadership. New York : Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2001.

McMahon, K. Scott. Pursuit of the Shield : the U.S. Quest for Limited Ballistic Missile Defense. Lanham: University Press of America, 1997.

Schwartz, Stephen I. Atomic Audit : the Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, 1998.

Sokolski, Henry D. Best of Intentions : America's Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation. Westport: Praeger, 2001.

Russia

Bertsch, Gary K. Potter, William C. Dangerous Weapons, Desperate States : Russia, Belarus, Kazakstan, and Ukraine. New York : Routledge, 1999.

Dalton, Russell J. Critical Masses : Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production, and Environmental Destruction in the United States and Russia. Series: American and Comparative Environmental Policy. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.

Egorov, Nikolai N. The Radiation Legacy of the Soviet Nuclear Complex : an Analytical Overview. London : Earthscan, 2000.

Josephson, Paul R. Red Atom : Russia's Nuclear Power Program from Stalin to Today. New York : W.H. Freeman, 2000.

Mathers, Jennifer G. The Russian Nuclear Shield from Stalin to Yeltsin. Series: St. Antony's Series. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Macmillan in association with St. Antony's College, 2000.

Moltz, James. Mansourov, Alexandre. The North Korean Nuclear Program : Security, Strategy, and New Perspectives from Russia. New York : Routledge, 2000.

Sokov, N. N. Russian Strategic Modernization : the Past and Future. Series: Soviet bloc and after. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000.

Britain

Beach, Hugh, Sir. Flattering the Passions, or, The Bomb and Britain's Bid for a World Role. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 1999.

Gopi Rethinaraj, T. S. Nuclear Politics in South Asia. Series: Jane's Intelligence Review. Special Report ; No. 20. Great Britain : Jane's Information Group, 1998.

Hawkings, David J. Keeping the Peace, the Aldermaston story : a Brief Account of the First Fifty Years of the Home of Britain's Nuclear Deterrent, the Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston. South Yorkshire : AWE Plc : Leo Coopere : Pens and Sword Books, 2000.

Paterson, Robert H. Britain's Strategic Nuclear Deterrent : from Before the V-Bomber to Beyond Trident. Portland, Ore : Frank Cass, 1997.

France

Davis, Mary D.The Military-Civilian Nuclear Link : a Guide to the French Nuclear Industry. Boulder: Westview Press, 1988.

Goldschmidt, Bertrand. Atomic Rivals. [Pionniers de l'atome. English] New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Hecht, Gabrielle. The Radiance of France : Nuclear Power and National Identity After World War II. Series: Inside Technology. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998.

Touraine, Alain. Anti-Nuclear Protest : the Opposition to Nuclear Energy in France. [Prophétie anti-nucléaire. English] Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Paris : Cambridge University Press ; Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 1983.

Yost, David S. (David Scott). France's Deterrent Posture and Security in Europe. London : International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1984/5.

Zonabend, Françoise. The Nuclear Peninsula [Presqu'île au nucléaire. English] Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Paris : Cambridge University Press ; Editions de la maison des sciences de l'homme, 1993.

China

China, Nuclear Weapons, and Arms Control : a Preliminary Assessment. New York, NY : Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., 2000.

Bracken, Paul J. Fire in the East : the Rise of Asian Military Power and the Second Nuclear Age. New York : HarperCollins, 1999.

Lewis, John Wilson. China Builds the Bomb. Stanford: Stanford Univeristy Press, 1988.

Medeiros, Evan S. Chinese Arms Exports : Policy, Players, and Process. Carlisle Barracks: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2000.

Ryan, Mark A. Chinese Attitudes Toward Nuclear Weapons : China and the United States during the Korean War. Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 1989.

India

Pakistan-India, Nuclear Peace Reader. Lahore : Mashal, 1999. Collection of critical essays.

Abraham, Itty.The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Secrecy and the
Postcolonial State. Zed Books, 1998.

Bidwai, Praful. New Nukes : India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament. Oxford : Signal Books, 2000.

Gopal Singh, Sharma, S. K. Documents on India's Nuclear Disarmament Policy . New Delhi : Anamika Publishers & Distributors, 2000.

Jain, B. M. Hexamer, Eva-Maria. Nuclearisation in South Asia : Reactions and Responses. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 1999.

Kothari, Smitu and Mian, Zia, eds. Out of the Nuclear Shadow. Zed Books, 2001.

Matto, Amitabh, ed. India's Nuclear Deterrent: Pokhan and Beyond. New Delhi: Har-Aanand Publications, 1999.

Nizamani, Haider K. The Roots of Rhetoric : Politics of Nuclear Weapons in India and Pakistan. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.

Perkovich, George. India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact of Global Proliferation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Tellis, Ashley. India's Emerging Nuclear Posture. Oxford: Oxford Univesity Press, 2001.

Thomas, Raju G. C. and Gupta, Amit. India's Nuclear Security. Boulder : Lynne Rienner, 2000.

Pakistan

Ahmad, Munir. How We Got It : a True Story of Pakistan's Nuclear Programme. Lahore : Sham-Kay-Baad Publications, 1998.

Kux, Dennis. The United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000 : Disenchanted Allies. Washington : Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2001.

Rahman, Khalid and Ahmed, Mushfiq. Nuclear Deterrence, CTBT and Pakistan. Islamabad : Institute of Policy Studies, 2000.

Siddiqa-Agha, Ayesha. Pakistan's Arms Procurement and Military Build-Up, 1979-99 : in Search of a Policy . New York : Palgrave, 2001.

The Middle East

Cohen, Avner. Israel and the Bomb. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.

Cordesman, Anthony H. Iran's Military Forces in Transition : Conventional Threats and Weapons of Mass Destruction. Westport: Praeger, 1999.

Cordesman, Anthony H. Iraq and the War of Sanctions : Conventional Threats and Weapons of Mass Destruction . Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Evron, Yavir. Israel's Nuclear Dilemma. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.

Hersh, Seymour M. The Sampson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. New York: Random House, 1991.

Feldman, Shai. Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in the Middle East. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.

Korea

Sokolski, Henry D. Planning for a Peaceful Korea. Carlisle Barracks: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2001.

Latin America

Barletta, Michael, Democratic Security and Diversionary Peace. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1998.

‹ NGOs

Stone, Jeremy J. Every Man Should Try : Adventures of a Public-Interest Activist. New York: Public Affairs, 1999.

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