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Bull, Stephen. Nuclear, thermonuclear, “atomic” weapons.
In his Encyclopedia of military technology and innovation. Westport,
Conn., Greenwood Press, 2004. p. 192-193. Invention and Discovery: Atomic Bombs and Fission. The Nature of an Atomic Explosion. In The Avalon Project at Yale
Law School, The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Chapter
11.
Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which works on nuclear weapons can be located in Library catalogs, include the following:
Lambers, William. Nuclear weapons. 4th ed. United States, W.
Lambers, 2006. 175 p.
Langford, Roland E. Introduction to weapons of mass destruction: radiological,
chemical, and biological. Hoboken, NJ, Wiley-Interscience, 2004. 394 p.
Beckman, Peter R., and others. Nuclear weapons, nuclear
states, and terrorism. 4th ed. Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY, Sloan Pub.,
2007. 393 p. Ferguson, Charles D., William C. Potter, Amy Sands, and others. The
four faces of nuclear terrorism. New York, Routledge, 2005.
376 p. Garrison, Dee. Bracing for Armageddon: why civil defense
never worked. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 2006. 242 p.
Historical Atomic bomb scientists: memoirs, 1939-1945: interviews with Werner
Karl Heisenberg, Paul Harteck, Lew Kowarski, Leslie R. Groves, Aristid
von Grosse,
C.E. Larson. Conducted and edited by Joseph J. Ermenc. Westport, Conn.,
Meckler, c1989. 385 p.
Badash, Lawrence. Scientists and the development of nuclear weapons: from
fission to the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1939-1963. Atlantic Highlands, NJ, Humanities
Press, 1995. 129 p.
De Groot, Gerard J. The bomb: a life. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard, 2005. 397
p. Gosling, Francis G. The Manhattan Project: making the atomic
bomb. 2005 ed. Washington, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2005. 115 p. (National
security history series, v. 1) Hughes, Jeff. The Manhattan Project: big science and the
atom bomb. New York, Columbia University Press, 2002. 170 p. Krugler, David F. This is only a test: how Washington, D.C.
prepared for nuclear war. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. 248 p. Living under the threat of nuclear war. Edited by Derek C. Maus.
Detroit, Greenhaven Press, c2005. 143 p.
Bibliography: p. 134-137. Loeber, Charles R. Building the bombs: a history of the nuclear
weapons complex. 2nd ed. Albuquerque, N.M., Sandia National Laboratories,
2005. 266 p. Richelson, Jeffrey. Spying on the bomb: American nuclear
intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea. New York, Norton, c2006.
702 p. United States nuclear tests: July 1945 through September
1992. Las Vegas, Dept. of Energy, Nevada Operations Office, 2000. 162
p. Wenger, Andreas. Living with peril: Eisenhower, Kennedy,
and nuclear weapons. Lanham, Md., Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
c1997. 461 p. Nuclear Security, Arms Control, and Nonproliferation Avoiding nuclear anarchy: containing the threat of loose
Russian nuclear weapons and fissile material. Graham T. Allison
and others. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, c1996. 295 p. (CSIA
studies in international security, no. 12) Cirincione, Joseph, Jon B. Wolfsthal, and Miriam Rajkumar. Deadly
arsenals: nuclear, biological, and chemical threats. 2nd ed. Washington,
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, c2005. 490 p. Diehl, Sarah J., and James Clay Moltz. Nuclear weapons and
nonproliferation: a reference handbook. Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-CLIO, c2002. 375
p. Nuclear security. Helen Cothran, book editor. San Diego, Calif.,
Greenhaven Press, 2001. 96 p. Nuclear weapons into the 21st century: current trends and
future prospects. Edited by Joachim Krause and Andreas Wenger with the
assistance of Lisa Watanabe. Bern, New York, Peter Lang, 2001.
252 p. (Studien zur Zeitgeschichte und Sicherheitspolitik = Studies
in contemporary history and security policy, v. 8) Strategy & Policy Cimbala, Stephen J. First strike stability: deterrence after containment. New York, Greenwood Press, 1990. 213 p. (Contributions in military studies,
no. 101) Cimbala, Stephen J. Military persuasion: deterrence and
provocation in crisis and war. University Park, Penn., Pennsylvania State
University Press, c1994. 307 p. Gregory, Shaun. Nuclear command and control in NATO: nuclear
weapons operations and the strategy of flexible response. Houndmills,
Basingstoke, Hampshire, Eng., Macmillan Press; New York, St.
Martin's Press, 1996. Quester, George H. Nuclear first strike: consequences of
a broken taboo. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
159 p. Weapons Effects The Effects of nuclear weapons. Compiled and edited by Samuel Glasstone
and Philip J. Dolan. Prepared and published by the U.S. Dept. of Defense
and the U.S. Dept. of Energy. 3rd ed. Washington, U.S. Dept. of Defense,
1977. 653 p. The Medical implications of nuclear war. Institute of Medicine,
National Academy of Sciences. Fredric Solomon and Robert Q. Marston,
editors. Washington, National Academy Press, 1986. 619 p.
Atomic audit: the costs and consequences of U.S. nuclear
weapons since 1940. Stephen I. Schwartz, editor. Washington, Brookings
Institution Press, 1998. 680 p. Nuclear terms handbook. Washington, Office of Intelligence. Issued
by Dept. of Homeland Security, Office of Science and Technology,
2003- Nuclear test explosions: environmental and human impacts. Edited
by Frederick Warner and Rene J. C. Kirchmann. Chichester, Eng.,
New York, Wiley, 2000. 275 p. (SCOPE report, 59) Semler, Eric, James Benjamin, and Adam Gross. The language
of nuclear war: an intelligent citizen's dictionary. New York, Perennial
Library, c1987. 325 p. Weapons of mass destruction: an encyclopedia of worldwide
policy, technology, and history. Eric A. Croddy and James J. Wirtz, editors.
Santa Barbara, Calif., ABC-CLIO, c2005. 2 v.
Disseratations may be identified by using online resources or the following indexes located in the Main Reading Room. Consult any reference librarian about options. Some dissertations may be available in full text through electronic resources on public terminals at the Library of Congress
Bright, Christopher John. "A portent of flaming doom":
Nuclear antiaircraft arms, continental defense, and the Eisenhower
era. Ann Arbor, Mich., UMI, 2006.
Pomeroy, Steven Anthony. Echoes that never were: American mobile intercontinental
ballistic missiles, 1956-1983. Ann Arbor, Mich., UMI, 2006.
Rezelman, David. "Terror and mystery": The United States and nuclear
fear, 1905-45. Ann Arbor, Mich., UMI, 2006.
GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS can be identified and located by going to individual agency web sites, listed below in the section “Additional Information Sources,” or by searching the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, http://catalog.gpo.gov. Government technical report access is described in the section “Technical Reports.” Older government publications may be identified by using the Government Reports and Monthly Catalog indexes; selected indexes and government publications are listed below.
Detecting smuggled nuclear weapons: hearing before the Subcommittee
on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security of the Committee on the
Judiciary,
United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session,
July 27, 2006. Washington, U.S. G.P.O., 2007. 93 p. Medalia, Jonathan. The Reliable Replacement Warhead program: background
and current developments. Washington, Congressional Research Service.
Updated Feb. 8, 2007.
Nuclear weapons: annual assessment of the safety, performance, and reliability
of the nation’s stockpile. Washington, United States Government Accountability
Office, 2007. 21 p.
Iran's political/ nuclear ambitions and U.S. policy options: hearings before
the Committee on Foreign Relations. Washington, U.S. G.P.O., 2007. 109th
Congress, 2nd Session, May 17 and 18, 2006. 126 p.
Technical Reports are indexed and archived by several government clearinghouses and many are available online in full-text. For many reports in the LC Technical Reports Collection the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) index provides access. The LC Electronic Resources web page has an extensive list of both subscription and open-access indexes for identifying Technical Reports & Standards. With a few exceptions, most of the indexes are open-source. Database descriptions include details on coverage and availability of copies. For more information ask a reference librarian for assistance, or contact the Technical Reports Section. Selected Technical Reports Bunn, Matthew, and Anthony Wier. Securing the Bomb 2006. Cambridge, Mass.,
Washington, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
July 2006. Wuest, Craig R. and others. Applying Science and Technology to Combat
WMD Terrorism. Livermore, CA, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, May 5,
2006. UCRL-PROC-221144. SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Orlando, FL,
United States, Apr 07 - Apr 21, 2006.
Abstracting and Indexing Services services that index relevant journal articles and other periodical literature, conference papers and proceedings, government reports, as well as technical reports and other ‘grey literature,’ are listed below. Additional targeted search engines, online indexes and e-print archives are listed under the section “Additional Online Resources.” For the current status of LC online subscription indexes, go to web page http://www.loc.gov/rr/ElectronicResources/. (Selected open-source indexes are also listed on this web page.) For more information consult a reference librarian.
Journals that are frequently good sources of articles on nuclear weapons technologies and related issues include the following:
Selected materials in the Nuclear Weapons pamphlet box include journal and newspaper articles and other miscellaneous items of interest and are located in the Science & Business Reading Room. Cirincione, Joseph. Controlling Iran’s nuclear program. Issues in science and technology, v. 22, Spring 2006: 75-82. Delegitimizing nuclear weapons: the United States should take the lead in making the use of nuclear weapons unacceptable under any but the most extenuating circumstances. Issues in science and technology, v. 22, Spring 2006: 67-74. Ferguson, Charles D., and Lisa Obrentz. Make it or break it. Bulletin of the atomic scientists, v. 63, March/April 2007: 46-52. Global nuclear stockpiles, 1945-2006. Bulletin of the atomic scientists, v. 62, July-Aug. 2006: 64-67. Gusterson, Hugh. Understanding the Reliable Replacement Warhead. Bulletin of the atomic scientists, 26 March 2007: http://www.thebulletin.org/columns/hugh-gusterson/20070326.html The next nuke (Reliable Replacement Warhead). Nature, v. 442, July 6, 2006: 18-22.
The swords of Armageddon: U.S. nuclear weapons development since 1945. Edited by Chuck Hansen. San Jose, Calif., Chukelea Publications, 1995. CD-ROM
and User’s Guide.
Chun, Stephen B. T. Iran nuclear program: U.S. options. Bibliography. Maxwell
AFB, Ala., Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center. March 2007. Nuclear Files |
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