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Book Reviews
From time to time, Arms Control Today will provide full-length reviews of upcoming books on the subject of arms control, nonproliferation, and international security. Shorter reviews of upcoming books can be found in the Books of Note section. To purchase any of these books, please consider using one of our online partners, who will share a portion of sales revenue with the Arms Control Association.
Space Weaponization: Aye or Nay?
Brian Weeden
November, 2008
A Review of Harnessing the Heavens: National Defense Through Space edited by Paul G. Gillespie and Grant T. Weller, and The Politics of Space Security: Strategic Restraint and the Pursuit of National Interests by James Clay Moltz.
Keeping a Tight Lid on Pandora’s Box
William Burr
September, 2008
A Review of The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945 by Nina Tannenwald.
“Moral Clarity,” Ideological Rigidity, Strategic Myopia
Paul Boyer
June, 2008
A Review of U.S. vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined American Security by J. Peter Scoblic.
Using Murphy’s Law Against Nuclear Terrorists
William C. Potter
March, 2008
A Review of On Nuclear Terrorism by Michael Levi.
A Somber Trip Down Memory Lane
John Newhouse
December, 2007
A Review of Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Richard Rhodes.
Diplomacy Delayed Is Not Diplomacy Denied
Leon V. Sigal
September, 2007
A Review of Failed Diplomacy: The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb by Charles L. Pritchard
The Wisdom of Sharing the Peaceful Atom
Ambassador Norman A. Wulf
June, 2007
A Review of Atoms for Peace: A Future After Fifty Years? edited by Joseph F. Pilat
Nuclear Minimalism
Brad Roberts
May, 2007
A Review of The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China’s Search for Security in the Nuclear Age by Jeffrey Lewis
Moving Nonproliferation Forward
Barclay Ward
March, 2007
A Review of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy: Confronting Today’s Threats Edited by George Bunn and Christopher F. Chyba
BOOK REVIEW: Back to the Future
C. Kenneth Quinones
December, 2006
Fingers on the Nuclear Trigger
Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr.
October, 2006
A Review of At the Borderline of Armageddon: How American Presidents Managed the Atom Bomb by James E. Goodby
Unmasking a Culture of Death
Jean Pascal Zanders
July, 2006
A Review of Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons Since 1945 edited by Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rózsa, and Malcolm Dando
Treaty and Tragedy
Steve Andreasen
May, 2006
A Review of The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: An Insider’s Perspective by Keith A. Hansen
A Never-Ending Story?
Michael Moodie
March, 2006
A Review of War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare From World War I to Al-Qaeda by Jonathan B. Tucker
Subcontinental Nightmares
Robert M. Hathaway
December, 2005
A Review of Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons by Sumit Ganguly and Devin T. Hagerty
The Muddle of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Strategy
Jack Mendelsohn
October, 2005
A Review of Nuclear Transformation: The New U.S. Nuclear Doctrine by James Wirtz and Jeffery Larson
A Review of Nuclear Weapons and Strategy: U.S. Nuclear Policy for the Twenty-First Century by Stephen Cimbala
A Review of Nuclear Inertia: U.S. Weapons Policy After the Cold War by Tom Sauer
A Tragic Life: Oppenheimer and the Bomb
Peter J. Kuznick
July, 2005
A Review of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
A Review of 109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet Conant
A Review of Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
A Review of The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race by Priscilla McMillan
Biological Weapons Breakdown
Jonathan B. Tucker
May, 2005
A Review of The Biological Weapons Convention: A Failed Revolution by Jez Littlewood
Can Arms Control Be Revived?
John D. Steinbruner
March, 2005
A Review of The Future of Arms Control by Michael A. Levi and Michael E. O'Hanlon
Avoiding the Tipping Point
Thomas Graham, Jr.
November, 2004
A Review of The Nuclear Tipping Point: Why States Reconsider Their Nuclear Choices edited by Kurt M. Campbell, Robert J. Einhorn, and Mitchell B. Reiss
Engaging India
Michael Krepon
September, 2004
A Review of Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb by Strobe Talbott
Disarmingly Bland
Greg Thielmann
June, 2004
A Review of Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix
Richard Butler’s Fatal Choice
Wade Boese
April, 2002
A Review of Fatal Choice: Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Missile Defense by Richard Butler
Šumit Ganguly’s Conflict Unending
J. Peter Scoblic
April, 2002
A Review of Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947 by Šumit Ganguly
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World Politics Review
December 17, 2008
World Leaders Try to Ban Nuclear Weapons
International Herald Tribune
December 6, 2008
Obama’s National-Security Team ‘Covers the Bases’
Bloomberg
December 1, 2008
What Should Obama Do About Missile Defense?
Washington Times
November 30, 2008
World Politics Review
December 17, 2008
World Leaders Try to Ban Nuclear Weapons
International Herald Tribune
December 6, 2008
Obama’s National-Security Team ‘Covers the Bases’
Bloomberg
December 1, 2008
What Should Obama Do About Missile Defense?
Washington Times
November 30, 2008