Command and Control

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Nichols, Kenneth D. The Road to Trinity: A Personal Account of How America’s Nuclear Policies Were Made. New York: William Morrow, 1987.

Nutter, Ralph H. With the Possum and the Eagle: The Memoir of a Navigator’s War over Germany and Japan. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2002.

O’Keefe, Bernard J. Nuclear Hostages. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.

Powell, Colin, with Joseph E. Persico. My American Journey. New York: Random House, 1995.

Power, Thomas S., with Albert A. Arnhym. Design for Survival. New York: Coward-McCann, 1964.

Pryor, David, with Don Harrell. A Pryor Commitment: The Autobiography of David Pryor. Little Rock, AR: Butler Center Books, 2008.

Reed, Thomas C. At the Abyss: An Insider’s History of the Cold War. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.

Rubel, John H. Doomsday Delayed: USAF Strategic Weapons Doctrine and SIOP-62, 1959–1962, Two Cautionary Tales. New York: Hamilton Books, 2008.

_____. Reflections on Fame and Some Famous Men. Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press, 2009.

Schonfeld, Reese. Me and Ted Against the World: The Unauthorized Story of the Founding of CNN. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

Sheff, David, and G. Barry Golson, eds. All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2000.

Sweeney, Charles W., with James A. Antonucci and Marion K. Antonucci. War’s End: An Eyewitness Account of America’s Last Atomic Mission. New York: Avon Books, 1997.

Vance, Cyrus. Hard Choices: Critical Years in America’s Foreign Policy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983.

Womack, John. Titan Tales: Diary of a Titan II Missile Crew Commander. Franklin, NC: Soliloquy Press, 1997.

York, Herbert F. Making Weapons, Talking Peace: A Physicist’s Odyssey from Hiroshima to Geneva. New York: Basic Books, 1987.

_____. Race to Oblivion: A Participant’s View of the Arms Race. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1970.

Books

Abella, Alex. Soldiers of Reason: The RAND Corporation and the Rise of the American Empire. New York: Harcourt, 2008.

Abrahamson, James L., and Paul H. Carew. Vanguard of American Atomic Deterrence: The Sandia Pioneers, 1946–1949. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.

Ackland, Len. Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1999.

Air Force Missileers: Victors in the Cold War. Paducah, KY: Association of the Air Force Missileers, Turner Publishing Company, 1998.

Allison, Graham. Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. New York: Times Books, 2004.

_____, and Philip Zelikow. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Longman, 1999.

Alperovitz, Gar. The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb. New York: Vintage Books, 1996.

Ambrose, Stephen E. Eisenhower, Soldier and President: The Renowned One-Volume Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.

Ammerman, Robert T., Peggy J. Ott, and Ralph E. Tarter, eds. Prevention and Societal Impact of Drug and Alcohol Abuse. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., 1999.

Anderson, Martin, and Annelise Anderson. Reagan’s Secret War: The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster. New York: Crown Publishers, 2009.

Andrew, Christopher, and Vasili Mitrokhin. The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

_____. The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World. New York: Basic Books, 2005.

Arbatov, Alexei, and Vladimir Dvorkin. Beyond Nuclear Deterrence: Transforming the U.S. — Russian Equation. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2006.

Armacost, Michael H. The Politics of Weapons Innovation: The Thor-Jupiter Controversy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.

Auten, Brian J. Carter’s Conversion: The Hardening of American Defense Policy. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 2008.

Ayson, Robert. Thomas Schelling and the Nuclear Age: Strategy as Social Science. New York: Frank Cass, 2004.

Ball, Adrian. Ballistic and Guided Missiles. London: Frederick Muller, 1960.

Ball, Desmond. Politics and Force Levels: The Strategic Missile Program of the Kennedy Administration. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

_____, and Jeffrey Richelson. Strategic Nuclear Targeting. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Barlow, Jeffrey G. Revolt of the Admirals: The Fight for Naval Aviation 1945–1950. Washington, D.C.: Government Reprints Press, 2001.

Berhow, Mark A. U.S. Strategic and Defensive Missile Systems, 1950–2004. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2005.

Bernstein, Jeremy. Plutonium: A History of the World’s Most Dangerous Element. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2007.

Bird, Kai, and Martin J. Sherwin. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. New York: Vintage Books, 2006.

Blair, Bruce G. Strategic Command and Control: Redefining the Nuclear Threat. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1985.