Rethinking Nuclear Weapons

Event Ideas

The following is a list of resources that may be used for chapter meetings and events. Ideas range from book clubs to movie nights and from roundtable discussions to large events.

Books

• The Absolute Weapon by Bernard Brodie

• Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes

• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

• Making Weapons, Talking Peace: A Physicist's Odyssey from Hiroshima to Geneva by Herbert York

• A Nuclear Weapon-Free World: Desirable? Feasible? edited by Jack Steinberger, Bhalchandra Udgaonkar, and Joseph Rotblat

• Star Warriors: A Penetrating Look into the Lives of the Young Scientists Behind Our Space Age Weaponry by William Broad
  

Government Documents

• The National Security Strategy of the United States of America

• Nuclear Posture Review (Excerpts)

• Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century
  (white paper by Stephen Younger, Los Alamos National Laboratory, June 27, 2000)

• Pursuing a New Nuclear Weapons Policy for the 21st Century
  (white paper by C. Paul Robinson, Sandia National Laboratory, March 22, 2001)

Congressional Legislation

• Coming Soon

Articles

• The Fog of WMD by Peter D. Feaver, Duke University (Janurary 24, 2004)

• Intelligence and Arms Control Experts Analyze Powell's UN Speech, CIA Estimates on Iraqi Weapons One Year Later (Arms Control Association, February 2004)

• Will Emerging Challenges Change Japanese Security Policy? by Stephanie Lieggi and Mark Wuebbels, Center for Nonproliferation Studies (December 2003)

• Rogue States: Nuclear Red-Herrings by Bruce G. Blair, President, Center for Defense Information (December 2003)

• A Strategic Choice: New Bunker Busters Versus Nonproliferation by Sidney Drell, James Goodby, Raymond Jeanloz, and Robert Peurifoy (March 23, 2003)

• Differentiation and Defense: An Agenda for the Nuclear Weapons Program (House Policy Committee February 2003)

• Enough Already: Ten Years Without Nuclear Tests is Too Long to Assure the Deterrent's Safety, Reliability (Center for Security Policy Sept. 2002)

• "Building a Better Bomb," by Michael Scherer (Mother Jones May/June 2002)

• Mini-Nukes, Bunker-Busters, and Deterrence. Framing the Debate (Center for Defense Information April 2002)

• "Counterproliferation at Core of New Security Strategy," by Christine Kucia (Arms Control Today October 2002)

• "Mini-Nuclear Weapons and the U.S. Nuclear Posture Review," by Charles D. Ferguson (Center for Nonproliferation Studies April 8, 2002)

• "The New-Nuke Chorus Tunes Up," by Stephen I. Schwartz (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists July/August 2001)

• "Nuclear Deceit," by Jim Hoagland (Washington Post November 10, 2002)

• "Nuclear Posture Review Leaks; Outlines Targets, Contingencies," by Phillip Bleek (Arms Control Today April 2002)

• "War by Spring," by William M. Arkin (Washington Post November 11, 2002)
  

Movies

• The Day After Trinity

• The Day After

• Dr. Strangelove

• Fat Man, Little Boy

• Testament

• The Sum of All Fears

Websites

• Arms Control Association
  http://www.armscontrol.org

• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  http://www.ceip.org

• Center for Defense Information
  http://www.cdi.org

• Center for Security Policy
  http://www.security-policy.org

• Council for a Livable World
  http://www.clw.org

• Defense Threat Reduction Agency
  http://www.dtra.mil

• Federation of American Scientists
  http://www.fas.org

• Henry L. Stimson Center
  http://www.stimson.org

• Heritage Foundation
  http://www.heritage.org

• Los Alamos Study Group
  http://www.lasg.org

• Monterey Institute for International Studies Center for Nonproliferation Studies
  http://cns.miis.edu

• Nuclear Threat Initiative
  http://www.nti.org

• Union of Concerned Scientists
  http://www.ucsusa.org

• U.S. State Department Bureau of Arms Control
  http://www.state.gov/t/ac

• Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control
  http://www.wisconsinproject.org