What ten or a dozen ‘core’ books would you expect to find on any graduate seminar list in disarmament and denuclearization? This is a list of plausible candidates, and historical introductions to each of the nuclear programs.

There is also available a longer list of about 200 titles.

Core List:

•   Arnett, Eric [ed]. Nuclear Weapons After the Comprehensive Test Ban: Implications for Modernization and Proliferation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. A Stockholm International Peace Research Institute volume.
  
•   Ball, Desmond and Jeffrey Richelson. Strategic Nuclear Targeting. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.
  
•   Bracken, Paul J. Command and Control of Nuclear Forces. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
  
•   Feiveson, Harold A. et al. [eds]. The Nuclear Turning Point: A Blueprint for Deep Cuts and De-Alerting of Nuclear Weapons. Washington: Brookings, 1999.
  
•   Gottfried, Kurt and Bruce Blair [eds]. Crisis Stability and Nuclear War. New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.
  
•   Herken, Gregg. The Winning Weapon : The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945-1950. New York : Knopf: 1980.
  
•   Karp, Regina Cowen [ed]. Security With Nuclear Weapons? Different Perspectives on National Security. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
  
•   Karp, Regina Cowen [ed]. Security Without Nuclear Weapons? Different Perspectives on Non-nuclear Security. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
  
•   Reiss, Mitchell. Bridled Ambition: Why Countries Constrain Their Nuclear Capabilities. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1995.
  
•   Sagan, Scott D. The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Acccidents, and Nuclear Weapons. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993.
  
•   Simpson, John. The Independent Nuclear State: the United States, Britain, and the Military Atom. London: Macmillan, 1986.
  
•   US Department of State. Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy. [The Acheson-Lilienthal Report.] March 1946. [http://www.learnworld.com/ZNW/LWText.Acheson-Lilienthal.html]
  

National Programs:

•   BRITAIN
  
•   Gowing, Margaret. Britain and Atomic Energy, 1939-1945. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1964.
•   Gowing, Margaret, assisted by Lorna Arnold. Independence and Deterrence. Britain and Atomic Energy, 1945-1952. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1974. Two volumes.
  
  
•   CHINA
  
•   Lewis, John Wilson and Xue Litai. China Builds the Bomb. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988.
  
  
•   FRANCE
  
•   Duval, Marcel and Yves Le Baut. L'arme nucléaire française; Pourquoi et comment? Paris: SPM, 1992.
  
  
•   INDIA
  
•   Perkovich, George. India's Nuclear Bomb. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000.
  
  
•   ISRAEL
  
•   Cohen, Avner. Israel and the Bomb. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
  
  
•   NORTH KOREA
  
•   Reiss, Mitchell, “North Korea: Living With Uncertainty,” in Reiss, Bridled Ambition: Why Countries Constrain Their Nuclear Capabilities, pp. 230-319. Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1995.
  
  
•   SOUTH AFRICA
  
•   Albright, David. “South Africa and the Affordable Bomb,” in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 1994, v 50 n 4. http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/1994/ja94/ja94Albright.html.
  
  
•   SOVIET UNION
  
•   Holloway, David. Stalin and the Bomb. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
  
  
•   TAIWAN
  
•   Albright, David & Corey Gay. “Taiwan: Nuclear Nightmare Averted,” in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January-February 1998, v 54 n 1. http://www.thebulletin.org/issues/1998/jf98/jf98albright.html.
  
  
•   UNITED STATES
  
•   Kaplan, Fred and Martin J. Sherwin. The Wizards of Armageddon. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.

Other Good Sources:

•   Atomic Archive. Materials are also available in a CD-ROM version as well.
  
•   Craig, Paul P. and John A. Jungerman. The Nuclear Arms Race : Technology and Society. New York: McGraw Hill, 1986.
  
•  International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation, and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Security and Survival: The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention, Cambridge, Massachusetts: IPPNW, 1999. [Includes the Model Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Testing, Production, Stockpiling, Transfer, Use and Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons and on Their Elimination.]
•   Russett, Bruce M. & Bruce G. Blair [intro]. Progress in Arms Control? Readings from Scientific American. San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1979.
•   Schwartz, Steven. Atomic Audit: the Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940. Washington: Brookings, 1998.
•   Talbott, Strobe. Deadly Gambits : the Reagan Administration and the Stalemate in Nuclear Arms Control. New York: Knopf, 1984.
•   Talbott, Strobe. Endgame : the Inside Story of SALT II. New York: Random House, 1979.
•   Talbott, Strobe. The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace. New York: Knopf, 1988.
•   York, Herbert F. [ed]. Arms Control. Readings from Scientific American. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1973.
  
•   United States. Office of Technology Assessment. Technologies Underlying Weapons of Mass Destruction. December 1993. OTA-BP-ISC-115. NTIS order #PB94-126984. GPO stock #052-003-01361-4. http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~ota/disk1/1993/9344_n.html. Chapter 4: “Technical Aspects of Nuclear Proliferation,” pp. 119-195.