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Nuclear Weapons Bibliography Nuclear Weapons—Development, Detonation, Deterrence & Disarmament: A Bibliography Patrick S. O’Donnell Department of Philosophy Santa Barbara City College (2013) The categories in the title cover most and thus not all of the relevant literature about nuclear weapons collected here: for example, “non-proliferation,” biographies of scientists, and strategic decision-making are excluded (it would have ruined the alliteration!). In other words, rather more is included than is denoted by the title. While not exhaustive, the list aims to be comprehensive. At some point I hope to divide this into sections according to the categories (with an addition: ‘Miscellany’). As with all my compilations, I welcome suggestions—books, in English—for additional entries. Abraham, Itty, ed. South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009. Abrahamson, James L. and Paul H. Carew. Vanguard of American Atomic Deterrence: The Sandia Pioneers, 1946-1949. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002. Ackland, Len. Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1999. Ackland, Len and Steven McGuire, eds. Assessing the Nuclear Age. Chicago, IL: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, 1986. Acton, James. Deterrence During Disarmament: Deep Nuclear Reductions and International Security. New York: Routledge, 2010. Adams, Ruth and Susan Cullen, eds. The Final Epidemic: Physicians and Scientists on Nuclear War. Chicago, IL: Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, 1981. Albright, Joseph and Marcia Kunstel. Bombshell: The Secret Story of America’s Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy. New York: Times Books, 1997. Aldridge, Robert C. The Counterforce Syndrome: A Guide to U.S. Nuclear Weapons and Strategic Doctrine. Washington, DC: Transnational Institute, 1978. Aldridge, Robert C. First Strike!: The Pentagon’s Strategy for Nuclear War. Boston, MA: South End Press, 1983. Allen, James S. Atomic Imperialism. New York: International Publishers, 1952. Alley, William M. and Rosemary Alley. Too Hot to Touch: The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Allison, Graham T. and Philip Zelikow. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Longman, 2nd ed., 1999. Allison, Graham T. Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2004. Allison, Graham T., Albert Carnesale, and Joseph S. Nye, Jr., eds. Hawks, Doves, & Owls: An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1985. 1 Alperovitz, Gar. Atomic Diplomacy—Hiroshima and Potsdam: The Use of the Atomic Bomb and the American Confrontation with Soviet Power. New York: Penguin, revised ed., 1985. Alperovitz, Gar. The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1995. Amundson, Michael A. Yellowcake Towns: Uranium Mining Communities in the American West. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2002. Anders, Roger M., ed. Forging the Atomic Shield: Excerpts from the Office Diary of Gordon E. Dean. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Anthony, Ian, Christer Ahlström, and Vitaly Fedchenko. Reforming Nuclear Export Controls: The Future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (SIPRI Research Report No. 22). New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Arbatov, Alexei and Vladimir Dvorkin. Beyond Nuclear Deterrence: Transforming the U.S-Russian Equation. Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006. Arnett, Eric, ed. Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in South Asia after the Test Ban (SIPRI Research Report, No. 14). New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Arnold, Lorna. Windscale 1957: Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 3rd ed., 2007. Arnold, Lorna and Katherine Pyne. Britain and the H-Bomb. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Arnold, Lorna and Mark Smith. Britain, Australia and the Bomb: The Nuclear Tests and Their Aftermath. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2nd ed., 2006. Aron, Raymond. The Great Debate: Theories of Nuclear Strategy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1965. Athanasopulos, Haralambos. Nuclear Disarmament in International Law. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2000. Ayson, Robert. Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age: Strategy as Social Science. New York: Frank Cass, 2004. Avenhaus, Rudolf, Victor Kremenyuk, and Gunnar Sjöstedt, eds. Containing the Atom: International Negotiations on Nuclear Security and Safety. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002. Badash, Lawrence. Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1994. Badash, Lawrence. A Nuclear Winter’s Tale: Science and Politics in the 1980s. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. Badash, Lawrence, Joseph O. Hirschfelder, and Herbert P. Broida, eds. Reminiscences of Los Alamos, 1943–45. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1980. Bailey, Kathleen and Robert Rudney, eds. Proliferation and Export Controls. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1993. Ball, Desmond and Jeffrey Richelson, eds. Strategic Nuclear Targeting. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986. Ball, Howard. Justice Downwind: America’s Atomic Testing Program in the 1950s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. 2 Barnaby, Frank. The Invisible Bomb: The Nuclear Arms Race in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, 1989. Barnaby, Frank. How Nuclear Weapons Spread: Nuclear Weapon Proliferation in the 1990s. London: Routledge, 1993. Barnet, Richard J. and Richard A. Falk, eds. Security in Disarmament. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1965. Bartimus, Tad and Scott McCartney. Trinity’s Children: Living Along America’s Nuclear Highway. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. Baylis, John. Ambiguity and Deterrence: British Nuclear Strategy, 1945-1964. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Baylis, John and Robert O’Neill, eds. Alternative Nuclear Futures: The Role of Nuclear Weapons in the Post-Cold War World. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000. Beck, Michael D., et al., eds. To Supply or To Deny: Comparing Nonproliferation Export Controls in Five Key Countries. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2003. Bernstein, Barton J., ed. The Atomic Bomb: Critical Issues. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1976. Bernstein, Jeremy. Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 2004. Bernstein, Jeremy. Nuclear Weapons: What You Need to Know. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Bernstein, Jeremy. Plutonium: A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. Bethe, Hans. The Road from Los Alamos. New York: The American Institute of Physics, 1991. Betts, Richard K. Nuclear Blackmail and Nuclear Balance. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1987. Bidwai, Praful and Achin Vanaik. New Nukes: India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament. New York: Olive Branch Press, 2000. Bird, Kai and Lawrence Lifschultz, eds. Hiroshima’s Shadow: Writings on the Denial of History and the Smithsonian Controversy. Stony Creek, CT: The Pamphleteers Press, 1997. Bird, Kai and Martin J. Sherwin. American Prometheus. The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Black, Samuel. The Changing Political Utility of Nuclear Weapons: Nuclear Threats from 1970 to 2010. Washington, DC: Henry I. Stimson Center, 2010. Blackaby, Frank, Jozef Goldblat, and Sverre Lodgaard, eds. No-First-Use. Philadelphia, PA: Taylor and Francis, 1984. Blackaby, Frank and Tom Milne, eds. A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Steps Along the Way. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000. Blacker, Coit D. Reluctant Warriors: The United States, the Soviet Union, and Arms Control. New York: W.H. Freeman, 1987. Blackett, Patrick M.S. Fear, War and the Bomb: Military and Political Consequences of Atomic Energy. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1949. Blackett, P.M.S. Atomic Weapons and East-West Relations. London: Cambridge University Press, 1956. 3 Blair, Bruce G. Strategic Command and Control: Redefining the Nuclear Threat. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1985. Blair, Bruce G. The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1993. Blair, Bruce G. Global Zero Alert for Nuclear Forces. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1995. Blake, Nigel and Kay Pole, eds. Objections to Defence: Philosophers on Deterrence. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984. Blechman, Barry M. and Alexander K. Bollfrass, eds. Elements of a Nuclear Disarmament Treaty. Washington, DC: Henry L. Stimson Center, 2010. Blight, James G., Bruce J. Allyn, and David A. Welch. Cuba on the Brink: Castro, the Missile Crisis, and the Soviet Collapse. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. Blix, Hans. Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008. Bluth, Christoph. Britain, Germany, and Western Nuclear Strategy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Bobbitt, Philip. Democracy and Deterrence: The History and Future of Nuclear Strategy. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988. Bobbitt, Philip, Lawrence Freedman, and Gregory F. Treverton, eds. U.S. Nuclear Strategy: A Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1989. Borrie, John and Ashley Thornton. The Value of Diversity in Multilateral Disarmament Work. New York: UNIDIR, 2008. Boyer, Paul. By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age. New York: Pantheon, 1985. Boyle, Francis A. The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence: Could the U.S. War on Terrorism Go Nuclear? Atlanta,
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