Nuclear Arms Control Resources

Organizations and Websites

• Arms Control Association
• Arms Control Wonk
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• Council for a Livable World
• Friends Committee on National Legislation
• Global Zero
• International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons
• James Martin Center for Non-Proliferation Studies
• PeaceAction
• Physicians for Social Responsibility
• Ploughshares Fund
• Stockholm International Peach Research Institute
• Mayors for Peace

Primary Documents

• Nuclear Posture Review 2018
• Congressional Budget Office Nuclear Cost Estimate 2018

State Legislation

California

• AJR 30 (Aguiar-Curry) of 2018 – Supports HR 669 (Lieu)
• AJR 33 (Limon) of 2018 – Supports principles of UN Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty

National Legislation

• HR 921 (Smith) / S 272 (Warren) – No First Use
• HR 669 (Lieu) / S200 (Markey) – No First Use
• HR 1086 (Lieu) / S 401 (Markey) – Stop Low Yield Nuclear Weapons
• HR 1231 (Frankel) / S 312 (Markey) – Prevent Nuclear Arms Race

International Legislation

• United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Books on Nuclear Weapons History and Policy

• The Decision to use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth by Gar Alperwitz, 1995
• The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg, 2017
• The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism by Charles Ferguson and William Potter, 2005
• Paper Tigers: China’s Nuclear Posture by Jeffrey Lewis, 2014
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes, 2012
• Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes, 1995
• Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race by Richard Rhodes, 2007
• Twilight of the Bombs by Richard Rhodes, 2010
• The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: An Enduring Debate by Scott Sagan and Kenneth Waltz, 2013
• The Fate of the Earth and The Abolition by Jonathan Schell, 1984
• Disarming the Nuclear Argument by Timmon Wallis
• Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the Nuclear Disarmament Movement by Lawrence Wittner, 2009