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• The Effects of Nuclear War (1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Controlling Threats to Nuclear Security: A Holistic Model (1997), by James L. Ford and C. R. Schuller (page images at Google)
• Post-Cold War Conflict Deterrence (1997), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Lives in the Balance: The Cold War and American Politics, 1945-1991 (c1992), by Moti Nissani (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Dynamic Stability: A New Concept for Deterrence (Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, 1987), by Fred J. Reule, Harvey J. Crawford, Daniel S. Papp, and Grover E. Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn't Matter--And What Does (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by William A. Schwartz and Charles Derber (HTML at UC Press)
• Disarmament: Atoms Into Plowshares? (Headline Series #113; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1955), by William R. Frye (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Strategy in the Missile Age (1959), by Bernard Brodie (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

• Atomic War! (4 issues; Canton, OH: Junior Books, 1952-1953)
  • Issue 1 (November 1952): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Issue 2 (December 1952): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Issue 3 (February 1953): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Issue 4 (April 1953): multiple formats at archive.org
• World War III: The War That Will Never Happen if America Remains Strong and Alert (2 issues, published by Ace Comics, 1952 or 1953)
  • Issue 1 (March): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Issue 2 (May): multiple formats at archive.org

• The Medical Implications of Nuclear War, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.), ed. by Fredric Solomon and Robert Marston (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Medical Implications of Nuclear War, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.), ed. by Fredric Solomon and Robert Marston (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Medical Implications of Nuclear War, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.), ed. by Fredric Solomon and Robert Marston (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Medical Implications of Nuclear War, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.), ed. by Fredric Solomon and Robert Marston (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives, by United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Gutenberg text)

• Project Cyclops (c1992), by Thomas Hoover (Gutenberg multiple formats)
• The Creature from Cleveland Depths (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1962), by Fritz Leiber, illust. by Wallace Wood (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Alas, Babylon (c1959), by Pat Frank (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Forbidden Area (c1956), by Pat Frank (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Nuclear Holocaust: Never Again, by R. J. Rummel (PDF at Hawaii)
• The World Set Free, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)

• Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction (online edition, last revised 2015), by Paul Brians (HTML at wsu.edu)

• No More Nagasakis: Interfaith Action Toward a World Without Nuclear Weapons (in English and Japanese; Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, c2018), by Toyokazu Ihara, trans. by Hirokazu Miyazaki and Xavier Riles Miyazaki (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Hundredth Monkey, by Ken Keyes (HTML with commentary at wowzone.com)

• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (partial serial archives)

• Air War and Emotional Stress: Psychological Studies of Bombing and Civilian Defense (first edition; New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1951), by Irving L. Janis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack (May 1959, reprinted January 1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987 edition), by Cresson H. Kearny, contrib. by Edward Teller (illustrated HTML at oism.org)

• Nuclear Texts and Contexts (partial serial archives)

• Nuclear Texts and Contexts (partial serial archives)

• Footnotes to History: Selected Speeches And Writings Of Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., Founder of The School of Foreign Service (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1990), by Edmund A. Walsh, ed. by Anna Watkins (PDF at Georgetown)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons (2003), by Sidney D. Drell and James E. Goodby, contrib. by George P. Shultz (PDF files at Hoover Institution)
• The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn't Matter--And What Does (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by William A. Schwartz and Charles Derber (HTML at UC Press)
• Nuclear Proliferation and Safeguards (2 volumes; 1977), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • Volume I (main report): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II, part 1 (Appendixes I-V): PDF files with commentary at Princeton
  • Volume II, part 2 (Appendices VI-IX): PDF files with commentary at Princeton
• Transforming Nuclear Deterrence (1997), ed. by Hans Binnendijk and James E. Goodby (HTML at fdlp.gov)

• Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (2009), by Albert J. Wohlstetter and Roberta Wohlstetter, ed. by Robert Zarate and Henry D. Sokolski (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Assessing the Risks (OTA-ISC-559; 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College, 2004), ed. by Henry D. Sokolski and Patrick Clawson (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)

• Iraq's Nuclear Weapons Capability and IAEA Inspections in Iraq: Joint Hearing before the Subcommittees on Europe and the Middle East and International Security, International Organizations, and Human Rights of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, June 29, 1993 (Washington: GPO, 1993), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Israeli Aggression Against the Peaceful Nuclear Installations in Iraq: Statement Made by Dr. Sa'adoun Hammadi, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iraq, Before the Security Council, 12 June 1981 (Baghdad: Republic of Iraq, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1981), by Sa'dun Hammadi (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Nuclear Reactions: How Nuclear-Armed States Behave (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Mark Bell
  • HTML at Project MUSE
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell University Press

• Solzhenitsyn, the "Communist" Power, and the Answer to the SALT Delusion (1975), by George Spiro (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Family Fallout Shelter (1959), by United States Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Project Trinity, 1945-1946, by Carl R. Maag and Steve Rohrer (Gutenberg text)

• U.S. Nuclear Policy in the 21st Century: A Fresh Look at National Strategy and Requirements (1998), by Center for Counterproliferation Research and Center for Global Security Research (page images at Google)

• Secret (Detroit: Chrysler Corp., 1947), by Wesley Winans Stout (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atomic Energy for Military Purposes: The Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb Under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945 (slightly updated version of GPO edition; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945), by Henry De Wolf Smyth, contrib. by Leslie R. Groves (page images at HathiTrust)
• A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes Under the Auspices of the United States government, 1940-1945 (Washington: GPO, 1945), by Henry De Wolf Smyth, contrib. by Leslie R. Groves (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Many Uses of the Atom (Headline Series #117; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1956), by Waldemar Kaempffert (multiple formats at archive.org)
• I Have Been to the Village (Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1948), by Daniel Q. Posin, contrib. by Albert Einstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Atomic Challenge (Headline Series #63; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1947), by William A. Higinbotham and Ernest Kidder Lindley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy (aka the Acheson Report; 1946), by United States Department of State Committee on Atomic Energy, contrib. by Dean Acheson
  • page images at HathTtrust
  • reprint: PDF at cia.gov

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