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
- Thomas Reed, At the Abyss: An Insider’s History of the Cold War. New York: Presidio Press, 2005.
- Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.
- Stephen Younger, The Bomb: A New History. New York: Harper-Collins, 2009
- Office of the Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Matters, Nuclear Matters: A Practical Guide. Washington, DC: Department of Defense, 2009.
- Neil Sheehan, A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon. New York: Random House, 2009.
Arms Control
- Jeffrey A. Larsen and James J. Wirtz, editors, Arms Control and Cooperative Security. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2009.
- Mohamed El Baradei, The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2011.
- 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.
- 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.
- David Albright, Peddling Peril: How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America’s Enemies. New York: Free Press, 2010.
Chemical-Biological Warfare
- Eric Croddy, Chemical and Biological Warfare: A Comprehensive Survey for the Concerned Citizen. New York: Copernicus Books, 2002.
- Al Mauroni, Chemical and Biological Warfare, 2d edition. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2007.
- Joseph Cirincione, John Wolfsthal, and Miriam Rajkumar, Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats, 2d edition. New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005.
- Mark Wheelis, Lajos Rozsa, Malcolm Dando, eds, Deadly Cultures: Biological Weapons since 1945. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006.
- Jonathan Tucker, War of Nerves: Chemical Warfare from World War I to Al-Qaeda. New York: Anchor, 2007.
Homeland Security
- Mark A. Sauter and James J. Carafano, Homeland Security: A Complete Guide, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill, 2012
- James F. Miskel, Disaster Response and Homeland Security: What Works, What Doesn’t, Stanford University Press, 2008
- Donald F. Kettl, System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics, 2 ed., Washington D.C.: CQ Press, 2007
- Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security: Assessing the First Five Years, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009
- Charles Perrow, The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007
Nuclear Enterprise
- Francis Gavin, Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America’s Atomic Age (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, New York: Cornell University Press, 2012
- 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
- Paul Bracken, The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger and the New Nuclear Politics, New York: Times Books, 2012
- Nina Tannenwald, The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007
- 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
- Thomas Schelling, Arms and Influence, New Haven, CT: Yale University, 2008 (reprint)
- David Hoffman, The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy, New York: Random House, 2010
- Mohamed El Baradei, The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2011
- Nicholas Thompson, The Hawk and The Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War, New York: Henry Holt, 2009
- 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
- Jeannie Johnson, Kerry Karchner, and Jeffrey Larsen, Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009
- Frederic Brown, Chemical Warfare: A Study in Restraints, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2005 (reprint)
- 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
- Milton Leitenberg and Raymond Zilinskas, The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012
- Dr. Barry Schneider, Future War and Counterproliferation: U.S. Military Responses to NBC Proliferation Threats, Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999
Homeland Security
- Mark A. Sauter and James Jayu Carafano, Homeland Security: A Complete Guide, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill, 2012
- James F. Miskel, Disaster Response and Homeland Security: What Works, What Doesn’t, Stanford University Press, 2008
- Donald F. Kettl, System under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics, 2 ed., Washington D.C.: CQ Press, 2007
- Charles Perrow, The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2007
- Ian I. Mitroff, Crisis Leadership: Planning for the Unthinkable, Wiley, 2004
Think Tank / NGO
- American Nuclear Society
- Arms Control Association
- Atomic Heritage Foundation
- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Hardvard Kennedy School
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Center for International Security Cooperation, Standford University
- Center for Health Security, John Hopkins
- Federation of American Scientists
- International Institute for Strategic Studies
- James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, MIIS
- National Institute for Public Policy
- Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
- Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute
- Nuclear Threat Initiative
- Nuclear Scholars Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Ploughshares Fund
- Pugwash Group
- RAND, National Security Research Division
- RAND, National Security and Terrorism
- Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
- Strategic Security Blog, Federation of American Scientists
- Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology
International Arms Control