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.
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Using Murphy’s Law Against Nuclear Terrorists
William C. Potter
April 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
October 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
July/August 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
A Review of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy: Confronting Today’s Threats edited by George Bunn and Christopher F. Chyba
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/August 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/August 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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