Additional Resources

History of Nuclear Warfare

Literature

• Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, A. Knopf Publisher, 2005.
• Andrew Grossman, Neither Dead nor Red, Routledge, 2001.
• Gregg Herken, Brotherhood of the Bomb, Holt & Co, 2002.
• Robert Jungk, Brighter than a Thousand Suns, Harcourt, 1986.
• Alexei Kojevnikov, Stalin’s Great Science, Imperial College Press, 2004.
• Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Simon & Schuster, 1986.
• Kenneth Rose, One Nation Underground, New York University Press, 2001.
• Gerhard Weinberg, A World at Arms, Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Internet

• http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/
• http://www.teacheroz.com/wwi.htm
• http://www.aip.org/history/exhibits.html
• http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/germany/nuke.htm
• http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/heavy.htm
• http://www.archiv.uni-leipzig.de/heisenberg/Vom_Frieden_zum__Krieg/Von_Haigerloch_nach_Farm_Hall/von_haigerloch_nach_farm_hall.htm
• http://www.dannen.com/decision/

The Physics of Nuclear Weapons

Literature

• Ramesh Chandra, Nuclear Medicine Physics, Williams & Wilkins, 1992
• Paul P. Craig & Johna A. Jungerman, Nuclear Arms Race, McGraw Hill 1986, 1990
• David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker, Fundamentals of Physics, Part 5, Wiley & Sons, 2001
• John Lilley, Nuclear Physics, Wiley & Sons, 2001

Internet

• http://www.lbl.gov/abc/
• http://nucleardata.nuclear.lu.se/database/masses/
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/atom/#

Technology of Nuclear Weapons

Literature

• Brian Alexander, Tactical Nuclear Weapons, Brassey’s Inc, 2003
• Richard Meserve et al, The Nuclear Weapons Complex, National Academy Press, 1989

Internet

• http://www.science.uwaterloo.ca/~cchieh/cact/nuctek/fusionbomb.html
• http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/
• http://www.cdi.org/nuclear/

Effects of Nuclear Weapons:

Literature

• John Auxier et al., “Radiological Effluents Released from U.S. Continental Tests 1961 through 1992”, U.S. DOE 1996;  http://www.nv.doe.gov/news&pubs/publications/historyreports/doenv209&317/317cover.pdf
• Paul P. Craig & John A. Jungerman, Nuclear Arms Race, McGraw Hill 1986
• Samuel Glasstone & Philip Dolan, “The Effects of Nuclear Weapons”, Department of Defense 1977 (out of print); can be found online at:     http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/nukeffct/enw77.htm, OR http://www.princeton.edu/~globsec/publications/effects/effects.shtml
• Lionel Johns et al., “The Effects of Nuclear War”, Office of Technology Assessment, 1979  can be found online at:http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/7906/
• Jeffrey Koplan, “A Feasibility Study of the Health Consequences to the American Population of Nuclear Weapons Tests”, Report to Congress, 2001 www version:        http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/fallout/report.pdf
• Richard Miller, The US Atlas of Nuclear Fallout 1951-1962, Vol. I-V, Legis Books, 2001
• Richard Miller, Under the Cloud, Two-Sixty Press, 1991
• Frederic Salomon & Robert Marston, The Medical Implications of Nuclear War, National Academic Press, 1986
• Susan Thaul & Heather O’Maonaigh, Potential Radiation Exposure in Military Operations, National Academy Press 1999
• United Nations Reports on the Effects of Atomic Radiation: http://www.unscear.org/
• Tom Vanderbilt, Survival City, Princeton Architectural Press, 2002

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

• http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/bomb/large/index.php  
  
• http://www.fas.org/nuke/intro/nuke/effects.htm
• http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/atomic/hiroshim/
• http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/abomb/mpmenu.htm
• http://www-sdc.med.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/n50/start-E.html

US Bomb Test Results

• http://nuclearweaponarchive.org
• http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Science/Nuke.html

Legal Aspects and Non-Proliferation Issues

Literature

• Brian Alexander, Tactical Nuclear Weapons, Brassey’s Inc, 2003
• Helen Caldicott, The New Nuclear Danger, New Press, 2002
• Paul P. Craig & Johna A. Jungerman, Nuclear Arms Race, McGraw Hill 1986
• Siegfried Hecker et al., High Impact Terrorism, National Academic Press, 2002
• John Holdren et al., The Future of US Nuclear Weapons Policy, National Academy Press, 1997
• Richard Meserve et al., Protecting Nuclear Weapons Materials in Russia, National Academy Press, 1999

Internet

• http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague02.htm#art1
• http://www.wslfweb.org/nukes.htm
• http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/index.html
• http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Nuclear_Non-Proliferation_Treaty
• http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsControl/Nuclear.asp
• http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList167/42F64C9A4212EA07C1256B66005C0BF1

Movies and Videos of Interest

• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
• The Atomic Café (1982)     
  
• Trinity and Beyond (1995)  [http://www.vce.com/trinity.html]
• Hiroshima (1995)                [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=151837]
• Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped  (1996)
  
• Atomic Journeys (1999)  
  
• Nukes in Space (1999)      [http://www.vce.com/nukes.html]