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Nonproliferation Reading List

Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
Washington, DC
July 3, 2008

Alibek, Ken and Handelsman, Stephen, Biohazard, Delta, 2000.

Arbatov, Alexei, and Vladimir Dvorkin, eds. Nuclear Deterrence and Non-Proliferation. Moscow: Carnegie Moscow Center, 2006.

Bosch, Olivia, and Peter van Ham, ed. Global Non-Proliferation and Counter-Terrorism: The Impact of UNSCR 1540. London: Chatham House, 2007.

Bowen, Wyn Q. Libya and Nuclear Proliferation: Stepping Back from the Brink. Adelphi Paper 380, London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2006

Cirincione, Joseph, Jon B. Wolfsthal, and Miriam Rajkumar. Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear Biological and Chemical Threats. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005.

Corera, Gordon. Shopping for Bombs: Nuclear Proliferation, Global Insecurity, and the Rise and Fall of the A.Q. Khan Network. Oxford University Press, 2006.

Davis, Jim A., and Barry R. Schneider, eds. Avoiding the Abyss: Progress, Shortfalls, and the Way Ahead in Combating the WMD Threat. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: USAF Counterproliferation Center, March 2005.

Hymans, Jacques E. C. The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council, Globalization, Biosecurity, and the Future of the Life Sciences, The National Academies Press, 2006.

Kellman, Barry, Bioviolence, Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Lennon, Alexander T. J., ed. Contemporary Nuclear Debates: Missile Defense, Arms Control, and Arms Races in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2002.

National Research Council, Biotechnology Research in an Age of Terrorism, The National Academies Press, 2004.

Miller, Judith, Germs, et. al., Simon and Schuster, 2001.

Mistry, Dinshaw. Containing Missile Proliferation: Strategic Technology, Security Regimes, and International cooperation in Arms Control. Seattle: University Press of Washington, 2003.

Mozley, Robert F. The Politics and Technology of Nuclear Proliferation. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998.

Muller, Harald, David Fischer, and Wolfgang Kotter. Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Global Order. Oxford University Press, 1994.

Perkovich, George. India’s Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation. University of California Press, 1999.

Preston Richard, The Hot Zone, Random House, 1997.

Price, Owen C.W., and Jenifer Mackby, eds. Debating 21st Century Nuclear Issues. Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2007.

Russell, James A. Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East: Directions and Policy Options in the New Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Schneider, Barry R. Future War and Counterproliferation: U.S. Military Responses to NBC Proliferation Threats. Westport: Praeger, 1999.

Schneider, Barry R., and Jerrold M. Post, eds. Know Thy Enemy: Profiles of Adversary Leaders and Their Strategic Cultures. USAF Counterproliferation Center, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, November 2002.

Smith, Derek D. Deterring America: Rogue States and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Sokolski, Henry D. Best of Intentions: America’s Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001.

Solingen, Etel. Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia & The Middle East. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.

Tucker, Jonathan, War of Nerves, Pantheon, 2006.

Utgoff, Victor A., ed. The Coming Crisis: Nuclear Proliferation, U.S. Interests, and World Order. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000.

Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, Weapons of Terror. (www.wmdcommission.org), 2006.

Disclaimer: Inclusion of a title in this reading list does not imply endorsement of the views contained in the source by the U.S. Department of State.


Released on July 3, 2008

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