From Foreign Affairs, Charles Ferguson (FAS): The Long Road to Zero: Overcoming the Obstacles to a Nuclear-Free World; and Graham Allison (Harvard): Nuclear Disorder: Surveying Atomic Threats (and more by Allison on a nuclear 9/11). Rolf Mowatt-Larssen (Belfer Center): Al Qaeda Weapons of Mass Destruction Threat: Hype or Reality? An excerpt from Atomic Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda by John Mueller. A review of The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and Its Proliferation by Thomas Reed and Danny Stillman. A panel on Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly by Michael Gordin. Rick Pearlstein profiles Garry Wills, author of Bomb Power: The Modern Presidency and the National Security State (and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more). A review of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons by Joseph Cirincione. George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, and Sam Nunn on how to protect the American nuclear deterrent. The Doomsday Clock keeps ticking: Governments must change nuclear policy, but they won't find the political will unless the public demands it. Joe Biden on the president's nuclear vision). Bruce Slawter on how US nonproliferation policy is linked to civilian nuclear power. An interview with Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the IAEA. Shane Maddock on the delicate art of nuclear jujutsu. Believe it or not, there are some potential benefits to the United States should Iran build a bomb. Contrary to popular belief, Israel is not afraid of a nuclear attack by Iran; rather, it fears losing its nuclear monopoly in the region and the image of invincibility that comes with it.
