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.
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 2023
Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO
By Susan Colbourn
2022
The Fragile Balance of Terror: Deterrence in the New Nuclear Age
Edited by Vipin Narang and Scott D. Sagan
January 2023
Saving the World from Nuclear War: The June 12, 1982, Disarmament Rally and Beyond
By Vincent J. Intondi
March 2023
Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America
By Joshua Frank
Haymarket Books
January 2023
Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War
By Jayita Sarkar
Cornell University Press
July 2022
The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam
By Jonathan R. Hunt
Stanford University Press
November 2022
Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb
By Togzhan Kassenova
2022
Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture: The IAEA, Iraq, and the Future of Non-Proliferation
By Trevor Findlay
June 2022
Averting Doomsday: Arms Control during the Nixon Presidency
By Patrick J. Garrity and Erin R. Mahan
Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons
By Herbert Lin
Networked Nonproliferation: Making the NPT Permanent, By Michal Onderco
Brazil in the Global Nuclear Order, 1945–2018, By Carlo Patti
Political Minefields: The Struggle Against Automated Killing, Matthew Breay Bolton
Nuclear Modernization in the 21st Century, By Aiden Warren and Philip M. Baxter, eds.
The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump, William J. Perry and Tom Z. Collina
The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy: New, Updated and Completely Revised, Lawrence Freedman and Jeffrey Michaels