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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.
The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon
By Ankit PandaInfluence Without Arms: The New Logic of Nuclear Deterrence
By Matthew FuhrmannEnding the Nuclear Arms Race: A Physicist’s Quest
By Frank N. von HippelHiroshima: The Last Witnesses
By M.G. SheftallThe Foundations of Modern Arm Control: An International History, 1815-1968
By Robert M. BlumA Farewell to Wars: The Growing Restraints on the Interstate Use of Force
By Hans BlixNuclear 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 2023