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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.
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November 5, 2009
A review of Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism From
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September 4, 2009
A Review of Reagan’s Secret War: The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World From Nuclear Disaster by Martin Anderson and Annelise Anderson (Continue)
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June 5, 2009
A Review of Better Safe Than Sorry: The Ironies of Living with the Bomb, by Michael Krepon.
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March 31, 2009
A Review of Reykjavik Revisted: Steps Toward a World Free of Nuclear Weapons Edited by George P. Shultz et al.
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November 4, 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.
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September 2, 2008
A Review of The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945 by Nina Tannenwald.
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June 9, 2008
A Review of U.S. vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined American Security by J. Peter Scoblic.
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April 1, 2008
A Review of On Nuclear Terrorism by Michael Levi.
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December 1, 2007
A Review of Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Richard Rhodes.
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October 1, 2007
A Review of Failed Diplomacy: The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb by Charles L. Pritchard
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July 1, 2007
A Review of Atoms for Peace: A Future After Fifty Years? edited by Joseph F. Pilat
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May 7, 2007
A Review of The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China’s Search for Security in the Nuclear Age by Jeffrey Lewis. (Continue)
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March 1, 2007
A Review of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy: Confronting Today’s Threats edited by George Bunn and Christopher F. Chyba
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December 1, 2006
A review of A Moment of Crisis: Jimmy Carter, The Power of a Peacemaker, and North Korea’s Nuclear Ambitions by Marion Creekmore, Jr.
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October 1, 2006
A Review of At the Borderline of Armageddon: How American Presidents Managed the Atom Bomb by James E. Goodby
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July 1, 2006
A Review of Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons Since 1945 edited by Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rózsa, and Malcolm Dando
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May 1, 2006
A Review of The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: An Insider’s Perspective by Keith A. Hansen
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March 1, 2006
A Review of War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare From World War I to Al-Qaeda by Jonathan B. Tucker
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December 1, 2005
A Review of Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons by Sumit Ganguly and Devin T. Hagerty
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October 1, 2005
A Review of:
Nuclear Transformation: The New U.S. Nuclear Doctrine by James Wirtz and Jeffery Larson
Nuclear Weapons and Strategy: U.S. Nuclear Policy for the Twenty-First Century by Stephen Cimbala
Nuclear Inertia: U.S. Weapons Policy After the Cold War by Tom Sauer -
July 1, 2005
A Review of:
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos by Jennet Conant
Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race by Priscilla McMillan -
May 1, 2005
A Review of The Biological Weapons Convention: A Failed Revolution by Jez Littlewood
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March 1, 2005
A Review of The Future of Arms Control by Michael A. Levi and Michael E. O'Hanlon
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November 1, 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
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September 1, 2004
A Review of Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bombby Strobe Talbott
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June 1, 2004
A Review of Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix
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April 1, 2002
A Review of Fatal Choice: Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Missile Defense by Richard Butler
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April 1, 2002
A Review of Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947 by Šumit Ganguly
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February 3, 2010
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February 2010
February 2010
Vice President Joe Biden delivered an address on the administration's nonproliferation and nuclear security agenda.