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Books of Note
From time to time, Arms Control Today provides short reviews of upcoming or recent books on the subject of arms control, nonproliferation, and international security. Full-length reviews of upcoming books can be found in the Book Review section. To purchase any of these books, visit the link at the end of each review.
Nuclear Decisions: Changing the Course of Nuclear Weapons Programs
Nuclear Weapons and International Law: Existential Risks of Nuclear War and Deterrence Through a Legal Lens
Germany and Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century: Atomic Zeitenwende?
Arms Control at a Crossroads: Renewal or Demise?
Under the Cap of Invisibility: The Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant and the Texas Panhandle
Unparalleled Catastrophe: Life and Death in the Third Nuclear Age
Forbidden: Receiving Pope Francis’s Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons
By Drew Christiansen, SJ, and Carole Sargent
Georgetown University Press
February 2023Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO
By Susan Colbourn
2022The Fragile Balance of Terror: Deterrence in the New Nuclear Age
Edited by Vipin Narang and Scott D. Sagan
January 2023Saving the World from Nuclear War: The June 12, 1982, Disarmament Rally and Beyond
By Vincent J. Intondi
March 2023Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
By Joshua Frank
Haymarket Books
January 2023Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War
By Jayita Sarkar
Cornell University Press
July 2022The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam
By Jonathan R. Hunt
Stanford University Press
November 2022Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb
By Togzhan Kassenova
2022Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture: The IAEA, Iraq, and the Future of Non-Proliferation
By Trevor Findlay
June 2022Averting Doomsday: Arms Control during the Nixon Presidency
By Patrick J. Garrity and Erin R. MahanCyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons
By Herbert Lin