Nuclear Weapons

26 Aug 2024 15:30

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I have a special interest in the Manhattan Project, but this is, after all, a broader subject.

To read:
• Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky, Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics, and Strategy
• Carlisle and Zenzen, Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal: American Production Reactors, 1942--1992
• Hugh Gusterson, Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War [Livermore; Review by Danny Yee]
• Fred Kaplan. Wizards of Armageddon [Nuclear strategists]
• Joseph Masco, The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico
• John Mueller, Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to al Qaeda
• Vipin Narang, Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation
• Richard Rhodes, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
• Scott D. Sagan, Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons
• Nina Tannenwald, The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945
• Tom Vanderbilt, Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America
• Herbert F. York, The Advisors: Oppenheimer, Teller, and the Superbomb