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Nuclear Weapons Books
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,289 ratings — published 2013
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,088 ratings — published 1986
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,159 ratings — published 2017
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,984 ratings — published 1995
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,698 ratings — published 1946
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.31 — 56,747 ratings — published 2005
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.17 — 231 ratings — published 2021
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.95 — 836 ratings — published 2007
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.38 — 40,369 ratings — published 2024
The 2020 Commission Report On The North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States: A Speculative Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,141 ratings — published 2018
The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,483 ratings — published 2009
The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.12 — 204 ratings — published 1981
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.73 — 31,579 ratings — published 2013
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.07 — 996 ratings — published 2020
The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.98 — 243 ratings — published
On Thermonuclear War (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.03 — 147 ratings — published 1960
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,439 ratings — published 2008
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,681 ratings — published 2017
The Wizards of Armageddon (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.14 — 286 ratings — published 1983
The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.97 — 454 ratings — published 1995
Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,044 ratings — published 1967
On the Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.98 — 48,765 ratings — published 1957
Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.11 — 133 ratings — published 1994
The Bomb: A New History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.66 — 141 ratings — published 2007
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,563 ratings — published 2021
Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,824 ratings — published 2020
Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the 116 Days that Changed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,634 ratings — published 2020
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.99 — 277 ratings — published 1995
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,547 ratings — published 2012
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,859 ratings — published 1968
Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.19 — 465 ratings — published 1961
The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons (The Making of the Nuclear Age Book 4)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.08 — 333 ratings — published 2010
Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.68 — 130 ratings — published 2013
Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.80 — 30 ratings — published 2009
How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.56 — 196 ratings — published 2010
Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.71 — 24 ratings — published 2003
A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.65 — 195 ratings — published 2008
100 Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.41 — 315 ratings — published 2003
Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.23 — 48 ratings — published
Burning the Sky: Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.64 — 236 ratings — published
The Fate of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.94 — 300 ratings — published 1982
The Rise of Nuclear Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.93 — 56 ratings — published 2012
Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.40 — 85 ratings — published 2022
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.14 — 769 ratings — published 2020
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.95 — 388 ratings — published 1979
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.80 — 234 ratings — published 2015
Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.29 — 68 ratings — published 2014
Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.72 — 60 ratings — published 2002
To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.97 — 39 ratings — published 2015
On Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.64 — 44 ratings — published 2014
“What Nixon sought throughout the Cold War was a stable international order for a world filled with nuclear weapons.”
― On China
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“The thought that human beings are considering saving lives by killing millions of their fellow human beings is so preposterous that the words 'saving life' have lost all of their meaning. One of the most tragic facts of our century is that this 'No' to nuclear weapons has been spoken so seldom, so softly, and by so few.”
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