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.

  • September 1, 2025

    Rethinking a Political Approach to Nuclear Abolition
    George Perkovich, Fumihiko Yoshida, and Michiru Nishida

    Beyond the Euromissile Crisis: Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear 
    Activism in the Cold War
    Luc-André Brunet and Eirini Karamouzi (eds.)

  • June 1, 2025

    The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon
    By Ankit Panda

    Influence Without Arms: The New Logic of Nuclear Deterrence
    By Matthew Fuhrmann

  • April 1, 2025

    Ending the Nuclear Arms Race: A Physicist’s Quest
    By Frank N. von Hippel

    Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses
    By M.G. Sheftall

  • January 10, 2025

    The Foundations of Modern Arm Control: An International History, 1815-1968
    By Robert M. Blum

    A Farewell to Wars: The Growing Restraints on the Interstate Use of Force
    By Hans Blix

  • July 9, 2024

    Nuclear Decisions: Changing the Course of Nuclear Weapons Programs

    Nuclear Weapons and International Law: Existential Risks of Nuclear War and Deterrence Through a Legal Lens 

  • June 1, 2024

    Germany and Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century: Atomic Zeitenwende?

    Arms Control at a Crossroads: Renewal or Demise?

  • March 13, 2024

    Under the Cap of Invisibility: The Pantex Nuclear Weapons Plant and the Texas Panhandle

  • October 1, 2023

    Unparalleled Catastrophe: Life and Death in the Third Nuclear Age

  • June 1, 2023

    Forbidden: Receiving Pope Francis’s Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons
    By Drew Christiansen, SJ, and Carole Sargent
    Georgetown University Press
    February 2023

  • April 1, 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