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.

  • 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

  • Hacking the Bomb: Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons
    Andrew Futter, Georgetown University Press, 2018, 212 pages

    Red Cross Interventions in Weapons Control
    Ritu Mathur, Lexington Books, October 2017, 190 pages

  • Verifying Nuclear Disarmament
    Thomas E. Shea, Routledge, 2018, 220 pages

    Brokering Peace in Nuclear Environments: U.S. Crisis Management in South Asia
    Moeed Yusuf, Stanford University Press, May 2018, 320 pages

  • Sleepwalking 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