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