“It will take all of us working together – government officials, and diplomats, academic experts, and scientists, activists, and organizers – to come up with new and innovative approaches to strengthen transparency and predictability, reduce risk, and forge the next generation of arms control agreements.”
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.
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 2023Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War
By Jayita Sarkar
Cornell University Press
July 2022The Nuclear Club: How America and the World Policed the Atom from Hiroshima to Vietnam
By Jonathan R. Hunt
Stanford University Press
November 2022Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb
By Togzhan Kassenova
2022Transforming Nuclear Safeguards Culture: The IAEA, Iraq, and the Future of Non-Proliferation
By Trevor Findlay
June 2022Averting Doomsday: Arms Control during the Nixon Presidency
By Patrick J. Garrity and Erin R. MahanCyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons
By Herbert LinNetworked 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
Hacking the Bomb: Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons
Andrew Futter, Georgetown University Press, 2018, 212 pagesRed Cross Interventions in Weapons Control
Ritu Mathur, Lexington Books, October 2017, 190 pages