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The following reading lists and websites represent a starting point for both junior and senior officers, as well as other interested parties, to learn more about the DoD nuclear enterprise, arms control, chemical-biological defense, and homeland security. These lists do not represent a complete bibliography of professional readings, but rather are intended to form a common basis of education for the general C-WMD community.  

Nuclear Enterprise

  1. Thomas Reed, At the Abyss: An Insider’s History of the Cold War. New York: Presidio Press, 2005.
  2. Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb.  New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.
  3. Stephen Younger, The Bomb: A New History.  New York: Harper-Collins, 2009
  4. Office of the Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters, Nuclear Matters: A Practical Guide. Washington, DC: Department of Defense, 2009.
  5. Neil Sheehan, A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon.  New York: Random House, 2009.

Arms Control

  1. Jeffrey A. Larsen and James J. Wirtz, editors, Arms Control and Cooperative Security. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2009.
  2. Mohamed El Baradei, The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times.  New York: Metropolitan Books, 2011.
  3. Amy F. Woolf, Mary Beth Nikitin, and Paul K. Kerr, Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements. Washington, D.C., Congressional Research Service, March 7, 2012.
  4. James M. Smith and Gwendolyn Hall, editors, Milestones In Strategic Arms Control, 1945-2000, United States Air Force Roles and Outcomes. Maxwell AFB, AU Press, 2002.
  5. David Albright, Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America’s Enemies. New York: Free Press, 2010.

Chemical-Biological Warfare

  1. Eric Croddy, Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen. New York: Copernicus Books, 2002.
  2. Al Mauroni, Chemical and Biological Warfare, 2d edition. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2007.
  3. Joseph Cirincione, John Wolfsthal, and Miriam Rajkumar, Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats, 2d edition. New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005.
  4. Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rozsa, Malcolm Dando, eds, Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons since 1945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
  5. Jonathan Tucker, War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda. New York: Anchor, 2007.

Homeland Security

  1. Mark A. Sauter and James J. Carafano, Homeland Security: A Complete Guide, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill, 2012
  2. James F. Miskel, Disaster Response and Homeland Security: What Works, What Doesn’t, Stanford University Press, 2008
  3. Donald F. Kettl, System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics, 2 ed., Washington D.C.: CQ Press, 2007
  4. Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security: Assessing the First Five Years, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009
  5. Charles Perrow, The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007

Nuclear Enterprise

  1. Francis Gavin, Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America’s Atomic Age (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, New York: Cornell University Press, 2012
  2. Sidney D. Drell and James E. Goodby, What Are Nuclear Weapons For? Recommendations for Restructuring U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces, Washington, DC: Arms Control Association, October 2007
  3. Paul Bracken, The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger and the New Nuclear Politics, New York: Times Books, 2012
  4. Nina Tannenwald, The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007
  5. Richard Rhodes, Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons, New York: Vintage Books, 2010

Arms Control

  1. Thomas Schelling, Arms and Influence, New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2008 (reprint)
  2. David Hoffman, The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy, New York: Random House, 2010
  3. Mohamed El Baradei, The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2011
  4. Nicholas Thompson, The Hawk and The Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War, New York: Henry Holt, 2009
  5. Scott Sagan and Kenneth Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons-An Enduring Debate, 3rd ed., New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2012

Chemical-Biological Warfare 

  1. Jeannie Johnson, Kerry Karchner, and Jeffrey Larsen, Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009
  2. Frederic Brown, Chemical Warfare: A Study in Restraints, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2005 (reprint)
  3. Al Mauroni, Where Are the WMDs? The Reality of Chem-Bio Threats on the Home Front and the Battlefront, Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2006
  4. Milton Leitenberg and Raymond Zilinskas, The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012
  5. Dr. Barry Schneider, Future War and Counterproliferation: U.S. Military Responses to NBC Proliferation Threats, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999

Homeland Security 

  1. Mark A. Sauter and James Jayu Carafano, Homeland Security: A Complete Guide, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill, 2012
  2. James F. Miskel, Disaster Response and Homeland Security: What Works, What Doesn’t, Stanford University Press, 2008
  3. Donald F. Kettl, System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics, 2 ed., Washington D.C.: CQ Press, 2007
  4. Charles Perrow, The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007
  5. Ian I. Mitroff, Crisis Leadership: Planning for the Unthinkable, Wiley, 2004