“[My time at ACA] prepared me very well for the position that I took following that with the State Department, where I then implemented and helped to implement many of the policies that we tried to promote.”
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 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 pagesVerifying Nuclear Disarmament
Thomas E. Shea, Routledge, 2018, 220 pagesBrokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia
Moeed Yusuf, Stanford University Press, May 2018, 320 pagesSleepwalking to Armageddon: The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation By Helen Caldicott, October 2017
Getting Nuclear Weapons Right: Managing Danger & Avoiding Disaster By Stephen J. Cimbala, December 2017- Indefensible: Seven Myths That Sustain the Global Arms Trade By Paul Holden, February 2017
Disarmament Under International Law By John Kierulf, March 2017 Unclear Physics: Why Iraq and Libya Failed to Build Nuclear Weapons and Deterring Nuclear Terrorism
International Cooperation on WMD Nonproliferation, by Jeffrey W. Knopf, ed., 2016
The Bomb: South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Programme, by Nic von Wielligh and Lydia von Wielligh-Steyn, 2015