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A Wider Bibliography

Selected Titles on Disarmament and Denuclearization

[By Topic]

Purpose

This list incorporates and extends the short list of books which one could expect to find on a reading list of an introductory course on nuclear arms control and disarmament. This list is certainly not complete, perhaps not even extensive, but includes almost 150 titles. This list is arranged alphabetically by topic. You may also access this list arranged alphabetically by author.

Topic	Region	Author	Title	Publisher


ABM Treaty		Bunn, Matthew	Foundation for the Future: The ABM Treaty and National Security	(Washington: Arms Control Association, 1990).

Arms control		Ball, Desmond and Andrew Mack [ed]	The Future of Arms Control.	(Sydney: Australian National University Press, 1987).

Arms control		Barton, John H. & Lawrence D. Weiler [eds]	International Arms Control: Issues and Agreements.	(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1976). Stanford Arms Control Group.

Arms control		Barton, John H.	The Politics of Peace: An Evaluation of Arms Control.	(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1981).

Arms control		Blair, Bruce [intro]	Progress in Arms Control? Readings from Scientific American	(San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1979).

Arms control		Brauch, Hans Guenter and Duncan L. Blarke [eds]	Decisionmaking for Arms Limitation: Assessment and Prospects.	(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger, 1983).

Arms control		Brown, Harold and Lynn E. Davis	Nuclear Arms Control Choices.	(Boulder: Westview, 1984).

Arms control		Carnesale, Albert and Richard N. Haass [eds]	Superpower Arms Control: Setting the Record Straight.	(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger, 1987).

Arms control		Committee on International Arms Control and Security Affairs of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York	Achieving Effective Arms Control.	(New York: Committee on International Arms Control and Security Affairs É, 1985)

Arms control		Duffy, Gloria	Compliance and the Future of Arms Control	(Cambridge: Massachusetts: Ballinger, 1988).

Arms control		Freedman, Lawrence	Arms Control: Management or Reform?	(New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986).

Arms control		Goldblat, Jozef	Arms Control Agreements. A Handbook.	(New York: Praeger, 1983).

Arms control		Goldblat, Jozef	Arms Control: A Guide to Negotiations and Agreements	(Oslo: PRIO, 1994). [Also Sage Publications, 1994.]

Arms control		Heckrotte, Warren and George C. Smith [eds]	Arms Control in Transition: Proceedings of the Livermore Arms Control Conference	(Boulder: Westview, 1983).

Arms control		Kelleher, Catherine McArdle and Joseph E. Naftzinger	Intelligence in the Arms Control Process: Lessons from ÒINFÓ

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

Arms control		National Academy of Sciences CISAC.	Nuclear Arms Control: Background and Issues.	(Washington: National Academy Press, 1985).

Arms control		Pfaltzgraff, Robert L., Jr	Contrasting Approaches to Strategic Arms Control.	(Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1974).

Arms control		Rathjens, G. W., Abram Chayes, J. P. Ruina	Nuclear Arms Control Agreements: Process and Impact.

Arms control		Staar, Richard F.	Arms Control. Myth versus Reality.	(Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 1984).

Arms control		York, Herbert [ed]	Arms Control. Readings from Scientific American	(San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1973).

Arms control	Germany	Hanrieder, Wolfram F. [ed]	Arms Control, the FRG, and the Future of East-West Relations.	(Boulder: Westview, 1987).

Arms control CFE	Europe	Kelleher, Catherine McArdle, Jane M. O. Sharp, Lawrence Freedman [eds]	The Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe: The Politics of post-Wall Arms Control	(Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1996).

Arms control Domestic	US	Platt, Alan	The US Senate and Strategic Arms Policy, 1969-1977.	(Boulder: Westview, 1978).

Arms control Domestic SALT II	US	Caldwell, Dan	The Dynamics of Domestic Politics and Arms Control: The SALT II Treaty Ratification Debate.	(Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1991).

Arms control History		Ranger, Robin	Arms & Politics 1958-1978: Arms Control in a Changing Political Context.	(Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1979).

Arms control Strategy		Kolkowicz, Roman and Neil Joeck [eds]	Arms Control and International Security.	(Boulder: Westview, 1984).

Arms control Strategy		Singer, J. David	Deterrence, Arms Control, and Disarmament: Toward a Synthesis in National Security Policy.	(Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1962). With epilogue: (Lanham: University Press of America, 1984).

Biography		Anders, Roger M. [ed]	Forging the Atomic Shield: Excerpts from the Office Diary of Gordon E. Dean.	(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987).

Biography		Hershberg, James	James B. Conant: Harvard to Hiroshima and the Making of the Nuclear Age.	(New York: Knopf, 1993).

Biography Cold War		Guhin, Michael A.	John Foster Dulles: A Statesman and his Times.	(New York: Columbia University Press, 1972).

Biography Cold War		Immerman, Richard H. [ed]	John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War.	(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989).

Biography History		Hamby, Alonzo L.	Beyond the New Deal: Harry S. Truman and American Liberalism.	(New York: Columbia University Press, 1973).

Biography History		Lacey, Michael [ed]	The Truman Presidency.	(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989).

Biography History	US	Isaacson, Walter and Evan Thomas	The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made: Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy	(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986).

CTBT		Goldblat, Josef and David Cox [eds]	Nuclear Weapon Tests: Prohibition or Limitation?	(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988). SIPRI and the Canadian Institute for Peace and Security.

Cold War	USSR	Zubok, Vladislav and Constantine Pleshakov	Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev.	(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1996).

Cold War History		Gaddis, John Lewis	The Long Peace: Inquiries into the History of the Cold War.	(New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).

Cold War History	USSR	Garthoff, Raymond L.	Détente and Confrontation: American-Soviet Relations from Nixon to Reagan.	(Washington: Brookings, 1985, 1994).

Control		Bracken, Paul J.	Command and Control of Nuclear Forces	(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983).

Costs		Schwartz, Steven	Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940	(Washington: Brookings, 1998).

Domestic		Marsh, Catherine and Colin Fraser [eds]	Public Opinion and Nuclear Weapons	(London: Macmillan, 1989).

Domestic	Germany	Kelleher, Catherine McCardle	Germany & the Politics of Nuclear Weapons	(New York: Columbia University Press, 1975).

Forces	Russia	Sokov, Nikolai N.	Russian Strategic Modernization: The Past and Future.	(Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999).

History		Goldschmidt, Bertrand	The Atomic Complex: A Worldwide Political History of Nuclear Energy	(La Grange Park, Illinois: American Nuclear Society, 1982).

History		Sherwin, Martin J.	A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and the Origins of the Arms Race	(New York: Vintage, 1987 [1975]).

History		Sherwin, Martin J.	A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance	(New York: Vintage, 1977, 1975).

History	Britain	Gowing, Margaret, assisted by Lorna Arnold	Independence and Deterrence. Britain and Atomic Energy, 1945-1952	(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1974). Two volumes.

History	Britain	Gowing, Margaret	Britain and Atomic Energy, 1939-1945	(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1964).

History	China	Lewis, John Wilson and Xue Litai	China Builds the Bomb	(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988).

History	China	Lewis, John Wilson and Xue Litai	China’s Strategic Seapower: The Politics of Force Modernization in the Nuclear Age	(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994).

History	France	Duval, Marcel and Yves Le Baut	L'arme nucléaire française; Pourquoi et comment?	(Paris: SPM, 1992).

History	France	Kohl, Wilfrid	French Nuclear Diplomacy	(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971).

History	India	Perkovich, George	India’s Nuclear Bomb	(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000).

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

History	Soviet Union	Holloway, David	Stalin and the Bomb	(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).

History	US	Bundy, McGeorge	Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years	(New York: Random House, 1988).

History	US	Herken, Gregg	The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945-1950	(New York: Knopf, 1980; with new preface: Princeton University Press, 1988).

History	US	Kaplan, Fred	The Wizards of Armageddon.	(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983).

History	US	Rhodes, Richard	Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb	(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995).

History	US	Rhodes, Richard	The Making of the Atomic Bomb	(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986).

History	US	Scott, Robert Travis [ed]	The Race for Security: Arms and Arms Control in the Reagan Years	(Washington: Arms Control Association,

History Arms control	US Soviet Union	Talbott, Strobe	Deadly Gambits: the Reagan Administration and the Stalemate in Nuclear Arms Control.	(New York: Knopf, 1984).

History Arms control	US Soviet Union	Talbott, Strobe	Endgame: the Inside Story of SALT II	(New Yorkl: Random House, 1979).

History Arms control Biography	US Soviet Union	Talbott, Strobe	The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace.	(New York: Knopf, 1988).

History Cold War		Gaddis, John Lewis	The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947.	(New York: Oxford University Press, 1992, 2000).

History Cold War		LaFeber, Walter	America, Russia, and the Cold War, 1945-1966.	(New York: Wiley, 1967; 2nd ed. Wiley, 1972).

INF	Germany	Risse-Kappen, Thomas	The Zero Option: INF, West Germany, and Arms Control	(Boulder: Westview, 1988).

MPC&A		Albright, David, Frans Berkhout and William Walker	Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium 1996	(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997).

MPC&A		Arkin, William, Robert S. Norris, and Joshua Handler	Taking Stock: Worldwide Nuclear Deployments, 1998	(Washington: Natural Resources Defense Council, 1998).

MPC&A		Gronlund, Lisbeth and David Wright	Beyond Safeguards: A Program for More Comprehensive Control of Weapon-Usable Fissile Material	(Cambridge: Union of Concerned Scientists, 1994). confirm city

MPC&A		Norris, Robert S., Andrew S. Burrows and Richard W. Fieldhouse	Nuclear Weapons Databook. Volume V. British, French, and Chinese Nuclear Weapons	(San Francisco: Westview, 1994).

MPC&A	Soviet Union	Cochran, Thomas B. et al.	Nuclear Weapons Databook. Volume IV. Soviet Nuclear Weapons.	(New York: Harper & Row)

MPC&A	US	Cochran, Thomas B. et al.	Nuclear Weapons Databook. Volume II. U.S. Nuclear Warhead Production

MPC&A	US	Cochran, Thomas B. et al.	Nuclear Weapons Databook. Volume III. U.S. Nuclear Warhead Facility Profiles

MPC&A	US	Cochran, Thomas B., William M. Arkin and Milton M. Hoenig	Nuclear Weapons Databook. Volume I. U.S. Nuclear Forces and Capabilities	(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger, 1984).

Negotiation		Seaborg, Glenn T.	Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Test Ban.	(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981).

Negotiation	USSR	Bunn, George	Arms Control by Committee. Managing Negotiations with the Russians.	(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992).

Negotiation	USSR	Nerlich, Uwe [ed]	Soviet Power and Western Negotiating Policies	(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger, 1983). Two volumes.

Negotiation	USSR	Sloss, Leon and M. Scott Davis	A Game for High Stakes: Lessons Learned in Negotiating with the Soviet Union.	(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger, 1986).

Negotiation Arms control		Kincade, William Hand Jeffrey D. Porro [ed]	Negotiating Security: An Arms Control Reader.	(Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1979).

Negotiation Arms control		Myrdal, Alva	The Game of Disarmament.	(New York: Pantheon, 1976; 2nd ed., 1982).

Negotiation Arms control		Neidle, Alan F. [ed]	Nuclear Negotiations: Reassessing Arms Control Goals in U.S.-Soviet Relations.	(Austin: Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, 1982).

Negotiation CTBT		Dean, Arthur H.	Test Ban and Disarmament: The Path of Negotiation.	(New York: Harper & Row, 1966), for the Council on Foreign Relations.

Negotiation MBFR	Europe	Keliher, John G.	The Negotiations on Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions: The Search for Arms Control in Central Europe.	(New York: Pergamon, 1980).

Negotiation History	US	Reiss, Mitchell	Bridled Ambition: Why Countries Constrain Their Nuclear Capabilities	(Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1995).

Negotiation SALT		Wolfe, Thomas W.	The SALT Experience.	(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger, 1979).

Physics		Craig, Paul P. and John A. Jungerman	The Nuclear Arms Race: Technology and Society	(New York: McGraw Hill, 1986).

Policy		Allison, Graham T. [ed]	Cooperative Denuclearization: From Pledges to Deeds	(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 1993).

Policy		Binnendijk, Hans and James Goodby	Transforming Nuclear Deterrence	(Washington: National Defense University Press, 1997).

Policy		Enthoven, Alain C. and K. Wayne Smith	How Much is Enough? Shaping the Defense Program, 1961-1969	(New York: Harper & Row, 1971).

Policy		McLean, Scilla [ed]	How Nuclear Weapons Decisions are Made	(London: Macmillan, with the Oxford Research Group, 1987).

Policy	US	NAS. CISAC [US]	Challenges for the 1990s for Arms Control and International Security	(Washington: National Academy Press, 1989).

Policy		NAS. CISAC [US]	Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium	(Washington: National Academy Press, 1994).

Policy	US	NAS. CISAC. [US]	The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy	(Washington: National Academy Press, 1997).

Policy		Neustadt, Richard E. and Ernest R. May	Thinking in Time	(New York: Free Press, 1986).

Policy	Britain	Freedman, Lawrence	Britain and Nuclear Weapons	(London: Macmillan, for the Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1980).

Policy	Britain	Pierre, Andrew J.	Nuclear Politics: The British Experience with an Independent Strategic Force, 1939-1970	(London: Oxford University Press, 1972).

Policy	Britain	Simpson, John	The Independent Nuclear State: The United States, Britain, and the Military Atom	(London: Macmillan, 1986).

Policy	France Britain	Boyer, Yves, Pierre Lellouche and John Roper [eds]	Franco-British Defense Cooperation: A New Entente Cordiale?	(London and Paris: Routledge for the Royal Institute of International Affairs and L’Institut Franais des Relations Internationales, 1989).

Policy	Pakistan	Ahmed, Samina and David Cortright [eds]	Pakistan and the Bomb	(South Bend, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998).

Policy	US	May, Michael M., George F. Bing, and John D. Steinbruner	Strategic Arms Reductions	(Washington: Brookings, 1988).

Policy Arms Control	Europe	Müller, Harald [ed]	Europe and Nuclear Disarmament: Debates and Political Attitudes in 16 European Countries	(Brussels: European Interuniversity Press, 1998).

Policy History		Bernstein, Barton J. [ed]	Politics & Policies of the Truman Administration.	(Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970).

Problematique		Blair, Bruce	Global Zero Alert for Nuclear Forces	(Washington: Brookings, 1995).

Problematique		Bundy, McGeorge, William J. Crowe, Jr., and Sidney D. Drell	Reducing Nuclear Danger: The Road Away from the Brink	(New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1993).

Problematique		Drell, Sidney D.	Facing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons.	(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1983).

Problematique		Karp, Regina Cowen	Security With Nuclear Weapons? Different Perspectives on National Security	(New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).

Problematique		Rotblat, Joseph et al [eds]	A Nuclear Weapons Free World: Desirable? Feasible?	(Boulder: Westview, 1993).

Problematique		Schell, Orville	The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now	(Henry Holt, 1998).

Problematique		Turner, Stansfield	Caging the Nuclear Genie: An American Challenge for Global Security	(Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1997).

Problematique		von Hippel and Roald Sagdeev [eds]	Reversing the Arms Race: How to Achieve and Verify Deep Reductions	(Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1990). city?

Problematique	Europe		Ending Europe’s Wars: The Continuing Search for Peace and Security	(Twentieth Century Fund, 1994).

Problematique	US	Paine, Christopher and Matthew G. McKinzie	End Run: The U.S. Government’s Plan for Designing Nuclear Weapons and Simulating Nuclear Explosions under the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty	(Washington: Natural Resources Defense Council, 1997).

Problematique Strategy	US	Joseph, Robert and Ronald Lehman	U.S. Nuclear Policy in the 21st Century	(National Defense University and LLNL, 1998).

Procurement Missiles	US	Beard, Edmund	Developing the ICBM: A Study in Bureaucratic Politics.	(New York: Columbia University Press, 1976).

Proposal		Feiveson, Harold A. et al., eds.	The Nuclear Turning Point: A Blueprint for Deep Cuts and De-Alerting of Nuclear Weapons	(Washington: Brookings, 1999).

Proposal		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, 19999).

Risks		Blair, Bruce G. and John D. Steinbruner	The Effects of Warning on Strategic Stability	(Washington: Brookings, 1991).

Risks		Blair, Bruce	The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War	(Washington: Brookings, 1993).

Risks		Gregory, Shaun	The Hidden Cost of Deterrence: Nuclear Weapons Accidents	(London: Brassey’s, 1990)

Risks		Sagan, Scott D.	The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons	(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).

Science	China	Xie Guang [et al.] [eds]	Contemporary Chinese Science and Technology for National Defense	(Beijing: Contemporary China Publishing, 1992).

Science History		Herken, Gregg	Cardinal Choices: Presidential Science Advising from the Atomic Bombs to SDI.	(New York: Oxford University Press, 1992; revised and expanded, Stanford University Press, 2000).

Security		Karp, Regina Cowen	Security Without Nuclear Weapons? Different Perspectives on Non-nuclear Security	(New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).

Strategy		Ball, Desmond	Politics and Force Levels.	(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980).

Strategy		Brodie, Bernard, Michael Intriligator and Roman Kolkowicz	National Security and International Stability.	(Cambridge, Massachusetts: Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, 1983).

Strategy		Freedman, Lawrence	The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy	(London: Macmillan, 1989).

Strategy		Garrity, Patrick and Steven Maaranen	Nuclear Weapons in the Changing World	(New York: Plenum, 1992).

Strategy		Graebner, Norman A.	The National Security: Its Theory and Practice, 1945-1960.	(New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).

Strategy		Hanrieder, Wolfram F. [ed]	Technology, Strategy, and Arms Control	(Boulder: Westview, 1986).

Strategy		Herken, Gregg	Counsels of War.	(New York: Knopf, 1985; 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1987).

Strategy	UK France China	Hopkins, John and Weixing Hu [eds]	Strategic Views from the Second Tier: The Nuclear Weapons Policies of France, Britain, and China	(New Brusnwick, NJ: Transaction, 1995).

Strategy		Kahan, Jerome H.	Security in the Nuclear Age: Developing U.S. Strategic Arms Policy	(Washington: Brookings, 1975).

Strategy		Mandelbaum, Michael	The Nuclear Future	(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983).

Strategy		Mandelbaum, Michael	The Nuclear Question	(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979).

Strategy		Mandelbaum, Michael	The Nuclear Revolution: International Politics Before and After Hiroshima	(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981).

Strategy		Trachtenberg, Marc [ed]	The Development of American Strategic Thought: Writings on Strategy, 1961-1969, and Retrospectives.	(New York: Garland, 1987).

Strategy	Europe	Heuser, Beatrice [ed]	Nuclear Weapons and the Future of European Security	(London: Brassey’s, for the Centre for Defence Studies, King’s College, University of London, October 1991). London Defence Studies 8.

Strategy	Europe	Kelleher, Catherine McCardle	The Future of European Security: An Interim Assessment	(Washington: Brookings, 1995).

Strategy	France	Boniface, Pascal	Vive la Bombe: Éloge de la Dissuasion Nucléaire	(Paris: Editions ^•1, 1992).

Strategy	US	George, Alexander and Richard Smoke	Deterrence in American Foreign Policy.	(New York: Columbia University Press, 1974).

Strategy Bureaucracy	US	Nolan, Janne E.	Guardians of the Arsenal: The Politics of Nuclear Strategy	(New York: Basic Books, 1989).

Targeting		Ball, Desmond and Jeffrey Richelson	Strategic Nuclear Targeting	(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986). [1985?]

Verification		Gizewski, Peter [ed]	Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament: Enhancing Existing Regimes and Exploring New Dimensions	(Toronto: Centre for International and Security Studies, York University, 1998).

Weapons	Russia	Podvig, Pavel [ed]	Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces.	(Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2001).