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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.

Paul Boyer

A Review of U.S. vs. Them: How a Half Century of Conservatism Has Undermined American Security by J. Peter Scoblic.

William C. Potter

A Review of On Nuclear Terrorism by Michael Levi.

John Newhouse

A Review of Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Richard Rhodes.
 
Leon V. Sigal

A Review of Failed Diplomacy: The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb by Charles L. Pritchard
 
Ambassador Norman A. Wulf

A Review of Atoms for Peace: A Future After Fifty Years? edited by Joseph F. Pilat
 
Brad Roberts

A Review of The Minimum Means of Reprisal: China’s Search for Security in the Nuclear Age by Jeffrey Lewis
 
Barclay Ward
 
A Review of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy: Confronting Today’s Threats Edited by George Bunn and Christopher F. Chyba
C. Kenneth Quinones
Spurgeon M. Keeny, Jr.

A Review of At the Borderline of Armageddon: How American Presidents Managed the Atom Bomb by James E. Goodby

Jean Pascal Zanders

A Review of Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons Since 1945 edited by Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rózsa, and Malcolm Dando
 
Steve Andreasen

A Review of The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: An Insider’s Perspective by Keith A. Hansen
 
Michael Moodie

A Review of War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare From World War I to Al-Qaeda by Jonathan B. Tucker
 
Robert M. Hathaway

A Review of Fearful Symmetry: India-Pakistan Crises in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons by Sumit Ganguly and Devin T. Hagerty
 
Jack Mendelsohn

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

Peter J. Kuznick
 
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

Jonathan B. Tucker

A Review of The Biological Weapons Convention: A Failed Revolution by Jez Littlewood
 
John D. Steinbruner

A Review of The Future of Arms Control by Michael A. Levi and Michael E. O'Hanlon
 
Thomas Graham, Jr.

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
 
Michael Krepon

A Review of Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb by Strobe Talbott
 
Greg Thielmann
 
A Review of Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix
 
Wade Boese
A Review of Fatal Choice: Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Missile Defense by Richard Butler
J. Peter Scoblic

A Review of Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947 by Šumit Ganguly