BOOK LIST FOR BOMB
Gar Alperovitz, THE DECISION TO USE THE ATOMIC BOMB, and the Architecture of an American Myth, Knopf, NY, 1995
Albert Bigelow, THE VOYAGE OF THE GOLDEN RULE, an Experiment with Truth , Doubleday and Company, 1959
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, AMERICAN PROMETHEUS: the Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer , Vintage Books, 2006
Bruce G. Blair, THE LOGIC OF ACCIDENTAL NUCLEAR WAR , The Brookings Institution, 1993
Lesley M. M. Blume, FALLOUT: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World , Simon and Schuster, 2020
Kate Brown, PLUTOPIA, nuclear families, atomic cities, and the great Soviet and American plutonium disasters, Oxford University Press, NY, 2013
Smedley D Butler, WAR IS A RACKET, 1935
Dr. Helen Caldicott, THE NEW NUCLEAR DANGER , The New Press, 2002
Joseph Cirincione, BOMB SCARE, Columbia University Press, NY, 2007
Joseph Cirincione, NUCLEAR NIGHTMARES, Securing the World Before It Is Too Late, Columbia University Press, NY, 2013
Daniel Ellsberg, THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE, Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, Bloomsbury, NY and London, 2017
Federation of American (Atomic) Scientists, ONE WORLD OR NONE, A Report toThe Public on the Full Meaning of the Atomic Bomb, 1946, reprinted 2007
Michelle Stenehjem Gerber, ON THE HOME FRONT: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site , University of Nebraska Press, 1997
Tadashi Hasegawa, THE MORNING OF AUGUST 6, I WAS 14 YEARS OLD, August 6 Foundation,2013
John Hersey, HIROSHIMA, New Yorker, 1946, and Random House, NY, 1989
Rudolph Herzog, A SHORT HISTORY OF NUCLEAR FOLLY, Melville House, London, 2013
David E Hoffman, THE DEAD HAND, Anchor Books, NY, 2009
Vincent J Intondi, AFRICAN AMERICANS AGAINST THE BOMB, Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement, Stanford University Press, CA , 2015
Kristen Iverson, FULL BODY BURDEN: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats, Crown Publishers, NY, 2012
Barbara Rose Johnston and Holly M Barker, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF NUCLEAR WAR: Rongelap Report, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek, CA, 2008
Fred Kaplan, THE BOMB , Simon and Schuster, 2020
Cynthia C Kelly, Editor, THE MANHATTAN PROJECT: the Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians, Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, NY, 2007
Dean W. Kohlhoff, AMCHITKA AND THE BOMB, Nuclear Testing in Alaska, University of Washington Press, 2002
Lansing Lamont, DAY OF TRINITY, Atheneum, NY, 1985
Oishi Mataschichi, THE DAY THE SUN ROSE IN THE WEST: Bikini, the Lucky Dragon, and I,
University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2011
Robert J Lifton and Greg Mitchell, HIROSHIMA IN AMERICA: Fifty Years of Denial, GP Putnam’s Sons, NY, 1995
Sean L. Malloy, ATOMIC TRAGEDY: Henry L Stimson and the Decision to Use the Bomb Against Japan, Cornell University Press, Ithica NY, 2008
Jack Niedenthal, FOR THE GOOD OF MANKIND: A history of the People of Bikini and Their Islands , Bravo Publishers, RMI, 2001
James L. Nolan, Jr., ATOMIC DOCTORS: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 2020
Dan O'Neill, THE FIRECRACKER BOYS: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement , St. Martins Press, 1994
Judy Pasternak, YELLOW DIRT: A Poisoned Land and the Betrayal of the Navajos , Free Press, 2010
William J. Perry, MY JOURNEY at the NUCLEAR BRINK, Stanford University Press, CA, 2015
William J. Perry and Tom Z. Collina, THE BUTTON, The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump , Ben Bella Books, 2020
Trisha T. Pritikin, THE HANFORD PLAINTIFFS: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice, University Press of Kansas, 2020
Earl Reynolds, THE FORBIDDEN VOYAGE , David McKay Co, 1961
Richard Rhodes, THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB, Simon and Schuster, NY, 1986
Richard Rhodes, DARK SUN, the Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, Little, Brown and Co, NY, 1995
Jonathan Schell, THE FATE OF THE EARTH and ABOLITION, Stanford University Press, CA, 2000
Eric Schlosser, COMMAND AND CONTROL, Penguin Press, NY, 2013
Steve Sheinkin, BOMB: The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon , Roaring Book Press, 2012
Martin J. Sherwin, GAMBLING WITH ARMAGEDDON, Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 2020
Susan Southard, NAGASAKI, Life After Nuclear War , Penguin Books, 2016
Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, UNTOLD HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, updated, Gallery Books, New York, 2019
Taniguchi Sumiteru, THE ATOMIC BOMB ON MY BACK, Rootstock Publishing, 2020
David Swanson, WAR IS A LIE , 2nd Edition, Just World Publishing LLC, 2016
Ronald Tataki, HIROSHIMA: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb, Little, Brown , NY, 1995
Philip Taubman, THE PARTNERSHIP: Five Cold Warriors and Their Quest to Ban the Bomb , Harper Collins Publishers, 2012
Timmon Milne Wallis, DISARMING THE NUCLEAR ARGUMENT, The Truth About Nuclear Weapons, Luath Press, Edinburgh, 2017
Peter Watson, FALLOUT: Conspiracy, Cover-up, and the Deceitful Case for the Atomic Bomb , Hachette Book Group, 2018
Alex Wellerstein, RESTRICTIVE DATA, The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, University of Chicago Press, 2021
Ward Wilson, FIVE MYTHS ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, NY, 2013
Lawrence S Wittner, CONFRONTING THE BOMB: a Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, Stanford University Press, 2009
Mark Wolverton, BURNING THE SKY , Overlook Press, 2018
Howard Zinn, THE BOMB, City lights, San Francisco, 2010
Tom Zoellner, URANIUM: War, Energy, and the Rock that Shaped the World , Penguin Books, 2009
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