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Book Reviews

Arms Control Today reviews of recent books on the subject of arms control, nonproliferation, and international security. Shorter reviews of books can be found in the Books of Note section. To purchase any of these books, please visit our Arms Control Today Reviewed Books list on Amazon.com, who will share a portion of sales revenue with the Arms Control Association.

China’s Strategic Arsenal: Worldview, Doctrine, and Systems

Reviewed by Tong Zhao

December 2021
Banning the Bomb: Smashing the Patriarchy and The Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons: How It Was Achieved and Why It Matters

Reviewed by Rebecca Davis Gibbons

November 2021
The Revolution That Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War

Reviewed by George Perkovich

October 2021
Negotiating the New START Treaty

Reviewed by Linton F. Brooks

September 2021
A Middle East Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A New Approach to Nonproliferation

Reviewed by Thomas R. Pickering

January 2021
Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare

Reviewed by Thomas Countryman

November 2020
Nuclear Security Summits: A History

Reviewed by Manpreet Sethi

September 2020
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War

Reviewed by Nina Tannenwald

June 2020
Global Flashpoints and the Risks of Escalation

Reviewed by Michael T. Klare

October 2019
Nuclear Deterrence: Megatons in a Minibook

Reviewed by Henry Sokolski

March 2019

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