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Resources on Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century
Student Pugwash USA's Top Five Resources To 1) Arms Control Wonk: Written by Dr. Jeffrey Lewis of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, this popular blog offers commentary on current nuclear news and events. 2) Last Best Chance: Starring former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson (of Law and Order), this gripping docudrama illustrates how a terrorist organization could obtain and assemble a nuclear bomb. 3) Blast Maps: Have a hard time envisioning the devastation left by a nuclear blast? Type in your zip code to see the effects of a 10 Kiloton nuclear explosion on your city. 4) Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrators: Want to learn what is behind the mini-nuke debate? Click here for an illustration of why the Union of Concerned Scientists is not convinced that nuclear bunker busters would successfully destroy buried targets. This report from the National Research Council explains the science behind the illustration. 5) Nuclear Calendar: Want to know what is going on in nuclear disarmament right now? Visit this current events calendar, compiled by the Friends Committee on National Legislation, to learn more about upcoming events and conferences dedicated to ending global reliance on nuclear weapons.
Contemporary Nuclear Debates: Missile Defense, Arms Control, and the Arms Races in the Twenty-First Century The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism Iran's Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Real and Potential Threat Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe The Nuclear Tipping Point: Why States Reconsider Their Nuclear Choices Deadly Arsenals II: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats The Military Balance The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation's High-Level Nuclear Waste Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security (pdf) Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U. S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 Disarmament Sketches: Three Decades of Arms Control and International Law Edward Teller: The Real Dr. Strangelove Nuclear Wastelands: A Global Guide to Nuclear Weapons Production and Its Health and Environmental Effects Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea Effects of Nuclear Earth-Penetrator and Other Weapons The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy Health and Environmental Legacy of Nuclear Wepaons Lugar Survey on Proliferation Threats and Responses (pdf) Missile Defense: The Current Debate Nuclear Threat Perceptions and Nonproliferation Responses: A Comparative Analysis (pdf) Overview of Project Findings: The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Group Securing the Bomb 2006 (pdf) Albright, David. When could Iran get the Bomb? Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2006. Blair, Bruce. Rogue States: Nuclear Red-Herrings. Bruce Blair’s Nuclear Column, Center for Defense Information, December 5, 2003. Opinion. Boese, Wade. Nuclear Proliferation Treaty Meeting Sputters. Arms Control Today, July/August 2005. D’Souza, Delano and Karen Yourish. Father of Pakistani Bomb Sold Nuclear Secrets. Arms Control Today, March 2004. Evans, Nicole. Missile Defense: Winning Minds, Not Hearts. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 2004. Gottemoeller, Rose. Cooperative Threat Reduction Beyond Russia. (pdf) The Washington Quarterly, 28 (2): Spring 2005. Kristensen, Hans and Robert Norris. Global Nuclear Stockpiles, 1945 – 2006 . Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2006. Lieber, Keir and Daryl Press. The Rise of U.S. Nuclear Primacy. Foreign Affairs, March/April 2006. Nelson, Robert. Nuclear Bunker Busters, Mini-nukes, and the U.S. Nuclear Stockpile (pdf). Physics Today, November 2003. Tannenwald, Nina. Stigmatizing the Bomb: Origins of the Nuclear Taboo (pdf). International Security, 29 (4): Spring 2005. Zhang, Hui. Action/Reaction: U.S. Space Weaponization and China. Arms Control Today, December 2005.
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