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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 35 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,858 ratings — published 2013
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,943 ratings — published 1986
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,314 ratings — published 2017
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,106 ratings — published 1995
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,842 ratings — published 1946
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.30 — 61,257 ratings — published 2005
Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.15 — 258 ratings — published 2021
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.36 — 52,776 ratings — published 2024
The 2020 Commission Report On The North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States: A Speculative Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,288 ratings — published 2018
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.96 — 862 ratings — published
The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.12 — 213 ratings — published 1981
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 4.16 — 5,642 ratings — published 2009
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 — 32,320 ratings — published 2013
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,026 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 3.97 — 262 ratings — published
On Thermonuclear War (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.05 — 152 ratings — published 1960
The Wizards of Armageddon (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.12 — 301 ratings — published 1983
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,575 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 — 2,891 ratings — published 2017
The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.96 — 462 ratings — published 1995
Arms and Influence (The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,115 ratings — published 1967
Now It Can Be Told (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.18 — 521 ratings — published 1961
On the Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.98 — 50,902 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 4.10 — 142 ratings — published 1994
The Bomb: A New History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.66 — 143 ratings — published 2007
Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.25 — 59 ratings — published
The Samson Option (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.11 — 344 ratings — published 1991
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,707 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 — 2,970 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 — 10,059 ratings — published 2020
The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.99 — 279 ratings — published 1995
Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.29 — 73 ratings — published 2014
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,748 ratings — published 2012
Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.08 — 9,106 ratings — published 1968
On Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.68 — 44 ratings — published 2014
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 — 344 ratings — published 2010
Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.66 — 131 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 3.81 — 31 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 3.53 — 202 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 3.77 — 26 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 — 196 ratings — published 2008
100 Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.40 — 319 ratings — published 2003
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 — 244 ratings — published
The Limits of Safety (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.17 — 64 ratings — published 1993
The Fate of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.94 — 308 ratings — published 1982
The Rise of Nuclear Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.91 — 57 ratings — published 2012
Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.44 — 94 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 — 815 ratings — published 2020
Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 3.98 — 410 ratings — published 1979
Managing Nuclear Operations (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-weapons)
avg rating 4.59 — 17 ratings — published 1987
“I returned to civilization shortly after that and went to Cornell to teach, and my first impression was a very strange one. I can't understand it any more, but I felt very strongly then. I sat in a restaurant in New York, for example, and I looked out at the buildings and I began to think, you know, about how much the radius of the Hiroshima bomb damage was and so forth... How far from here was 34th street?... All those buildings, all smashed — and so on. And I would go along and I would see people building a bridge, or they'd be making a new road, and I thought, they're crazy, they just don't understand, they don't understand. Why are they making new things? It's so useless.
But, fortunately, it's been useless for almost forty years now, hasn't it? So I've been wrong about it being useless making bridges and I'm glad those other people had the sense to go ahead.”
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But, fortunately, it's been useless for almost forty years now, hasn't it? So I've been wrong about it being useless making bridges and I'm glad those other people had the sense to go ahead.”
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“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.”
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