Below is one of the lists from the Peace section of the Booklists page of the Housmans website. It's the NUCLEAR AND OTHER WMDs list. You can go right back to the website's main Booklists page (which links directly to and from all the other main pages) here. You can go back up to the start of the Peace section here. And you can jump directly between the Peace lists, without going back up to the head of the Peace section, using the links which follow... Key/recommended texts New and recent publications Topic 1: Pacifism and nonviolence Topic 2: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, etc Topic 3: Peace education Topic 4: Peace research Topic 5: Women and peace Topic 6: Lifestyles and religious Topic 7: Disarmament, arms race Topic 8: Nuclear and other WMDs Topic 9: Arms trade Topic 10: Specific wars Topic 11: "Terrorism" [Classification not yet available] Topic 12: Peace movement history Topic 13: Miscellaneous topics Topic 14: General peace issues Topic 15: Relevant fiction and poetry Topic 16: Journals [Classification not yet available] Topic 17: Reference [Classification not yet available] Topic 8: NUCLEAR AND OTHER WMDs These are books dealing with: nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons systems (including "Star Wars" and space weapons) and nuclear disarmament; also other weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), such as chemical and biological weapons (CBW), and opposition thereto. Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand - see the Peace Booklists introductory page. The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb, Itty Abraham (Zed Books, 1998), £12.95 Disarmament Diplomacy No 86 Autumn 2007 (Acronym Institute), £2.00 Hawks, Doves, & Owls - An Agenda for Avoiding Nuclear War, (Eds) Graham T Allison, Albert Carnesale, Joseph S Nye Jr (WW Norton, New York), hbk £5.50 Nuclear Terrorism, Frank Barnaby (Scientists Against Nuclear Arms, London, 1991), pmphlt £1.50 What on Earth is Star Wars?, Frank Barnaby (Fourth Estate, 1986), pbk £2.00 The Politics of Alternative Defence: A Policy for a Non-nuclear Britain, Alternative Defence Commission (Paladin, 1987), pbk £4.95 The Plague Makers: The Secret World of Biological Warfare, Wendy Barnaby (Vision Paperbacks, 1999), £9.99 New Nukes: India, Pakistan and Global Nuclear Disarmament, Praful Bidwai & Achin Vanaik, introduction by Arundhati Roy (Signal Books, 2000), pbk £12.99 No-First-Use, Frank Blackaby, Jozef Goldblat and Sverre Lodgaart (SIPRI / Taylor & Francis, 1984), £5.00 Atomic Bombs and Human Beings, Arthur Booth (Quaker Peace & Service, London, 1981), pmphlt £3.00 A reprint of an article originally published by UNESCO. No Place to Hide 1946/1984, David Bradley (University Press of New England, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA, 1983), pbk £13.00 The 1980s reissue, with a foreword by Jerome B Wiesner, of one of the books which began the anti-nuclear movement nearly 40 years earlier. In Search of the Fourth Freedom, Howard S Brembeck (Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, India, 1998), hbk £12.95 A plan for the elimination of weapons of mass destruction, and the freeing of the world from the fear of war, by building on the increase in global interdependence. Star Warriors, William J Broad (Faber, 1985), £3.50 Namibia: A Contract to Kill - The Story of Stolen Uranium and the British Nuclear Programme, The Campaign Against the Namibian Uranium Contracts (Action on Namibia Publications, London, 1986), pmphlt £2.00 CANUC, the group which authored this pamphlet, was a key, and very active, link-up of solidarity and anti-nucelar activists during this period. In God We Trust: Christian Reflections on the Nuclear Arms Race (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, London, 1986), pmphlt £2.50 A collection of essays by theologians and campaigners. Cruise, Pershing and SS-20, John Cartwright MP & Julian Critchley MP (Brassey's Defence publishers), £3.75 The Nuclear Axis - Secret collaboration betwen West Germany and South Africa, Zdenek Cervenka and Barbara Rogers (Julian Friedmann, 1978), hbk £5.00 Trident: Britain's Independent Arms Race, Malcolm Chalmers (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, London, 1984), pbk £7.50 The Star Wars History - From Deterrence to Defence: The American Strategic Debate, Michael Charlton (BBC Publications, 1986), hbk £5.00 Trident - Nuclear Proliferation the British Way The Spokesman No 98, (ed) Ken Coates (Spokesman, Nottingham, 2008), pbk £5.00 Eleventh Hour for Europe, Ken Coates, Peggy Duff, Dan Smith, Mary Kaldor, EP Thompson & Roy Medvedev (Spokesman, 1981), £2.00 (pbk) / £4.00 (hbk) Overkill: The Story of Modern Weapons, John Cox (Pelican, 1981), £2.00 Disarmament Negotiations - The Way Forward, George Crossley (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1984), pmphlt £3.50 The Soldier's Tale, Bill Cutler (Ex-Services CND, Bristol, 1987), pmphlt £5.00 A short memoir by a member of ex-services CND. The Death of Deterrence - Consequences of the New Nuclear Arms Race, Malcolm Dando and Paul Rogers (CND Publications, 1984), pbk £3.00 Pacific Women Speak Out - for independence and denuclearisation, Zohl de Ishtar (Pacific Connections, Annadnale, Australia, 1998), pmphlt £4.50 A collection of stories of resistance against incredible odds, stories of survival. Aotearoa / New Zealand at the World Court, Kate Dewes and Robert Green (Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1999), pmphlt £3.00 The story of New Zealand attempts to bring the issue of nuclear weapons to the World Court. Fuelling the Nuclear Arms Race - The Links Between Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons, Sheila Durie and Rob Edwards (Pluto Press, 1982), pbk £3.00 Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons: The Dangerous Dynamic of Nuclear Revival (East Midlands CND, 2008), pmphlt, £0.50 This slight pamphlet provides an excellent, concise round-up of reasons to oppose the government's plan to restart the development of nuclear power generation in Britain and looks at the links with its plans for a new generation of nuclear weapons. Disarming the Oceans - International Resistance to the Nuclear Navies (European Nuclear Disarmament, 1985), pmphlt £2.00 Produced with the support of the Greater London Council, in connection with the campaign by international networks of activists opposing - especially - the presence of nuclear weapons in the world's oceans. The Yellow Rainmakers: Are Chemical Weapons Being Used in Southeast Asia?, Grant Evans (Verso, 1983), pbk £4.00 Freedom from Nuclear Weapons, (Ed) George Farebrother for World Court Project UK (Spokesman Books, Nottingham, 2007), £7.00 A report of the "Freedom from Nuclear Weapons" conference held in the European Parliament building in Brussels, in July 2006, where legal experts and civil society representatives examined in depth the legality of nuclear weapons. The Human Cost of Nuclear War, (Eds) Stephen Farrow and Alex Chown (Medical Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons, 1983), pbk £5.00 Risks of Unintentional Nuclear War, Daniel Frei (United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, 1983), £5.95 Nuclear Weapons: the way ahead, Ronald Gaskell (The Menard Press, London, 1982), pbk £3.50 One Year to Go? - The Time for Negotiated Disarmament is Running Out Fast, James George (The Menard Press, London, 1982), pmphlt £2.00 Safeguarding the Atom: A Critical Appraisal, (Ed) Jozef Goldblat(Taylor & Francis for SIPRI, 1985), hbk £15.50 The Devil's Repertoire - or, Nuclear Bombing and the Life of Man, Victor Gollancz (Victor Gollancz, 1958), pbk £5.00 The Naked Nuclear Emperor: Debunking Nuclear Deterrence - A Primer for Safer Security Strategies, Robert Green (Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2000), pbk £5.00 Re-Thinking Nuclear Deterrence, Robert Green (Disarmament and Security Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2001), pbk £2.00 A summary of arguments from The Naked Nuclear Emperor: Debunking Nuclear Deterrence by the same author. London After the Bomb, Owen Greene, Barry Rubin, Neil Turok, Philip Webber and Graeme Wilkinson (OUP, 1982), £3.25 Verifying a Nuclear Freeze, Roger Harrison (Berg Publishers, 1986), £6.00 The Ultimate Disposal of Fissile Material from Nuclear Weapons, Roger D Harrison (Scientists Against Nuclear Arms, London, 1991), pmphlt £1.50 Hiroshima, John Hersey (Penguin, 1946), pbk £5.00 Hiroshima, John Hersey (Penguin Classics, 2001), pbk £7.99 The 1985 version, with an additional chapter by the author after his return to Hiroshima, of the 1946 classic. The European Missiles Crisis: Nuclear Weapons and Security Policy, (Eds) Hans-Henrik Holm and Nikolaj Petersen (Frances Pinter, 1983), £5.05 CND: Now More Than Ever - The Story of a Peace Movement, Kate Hudson (Vision Paperbacks, 2005), pbk £10.99 Four Minutes to Midnight: Bronowski Memorial Lecture, Nicholas Humphrey (BBC, 1981), £2.00 Four Minutes to Midnight: The Bronowski Memorial Lecture 1981, Nicholas Humphrey (The Menard Press, London, 1982), pmphlt £2.00 Space Wars, Martin Ince (Camden Press, 1986), £3.00 Securing our Survival (SOS): The Case for a Nuclear Weapons Convention (International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 2007), pbk £8.50 The definitive handbook of the international network for a nuclear weapons convention. Includes a model convention. Weapons that may Cause Unnecessary Suffering or have Indiscriminate Effects (International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, 1973), pbk £2.00 Radioactive Heaven & Earth: The health and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing in, on and above the earth, IPPNW (Zed Books, 1991), £7.00 The Nuclear Era, C G Jacobsen (Spokesman University Paperback, 1982), £2.00 Verification Technologies, Bhupendra Jasani (Berg Publishers, 1984), £2.00 Countdown to Space War, Bhupendra Jasani and Christopher Lee (Taylor & Francis for SIPRI, 1984), pbk £4.00 Space Weapons - The Arms Control Dilemma, (Ed) Bhupendra Jasani (Taylor & Francis for SIPRI, 1984), hbk £8.50 From Bikini to Belau: the nuclear colonisation of the Pacific, Peter D Jones (War Resisters' International, 1988), pmphlt £1.00 Damit Wir Nicht Untergehen, Robert Jungk (Grune Bildungs Werkstatt, 1992), £4.00 In German. Disarming Europe, (Eds) Mary Kaldor & Dan Smith (Merlin Press, 1982), £6.00 Dubious Specter - A Skeptical Look at the Soviet Nuclear Threat, Fred M Kaplan (Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC, USA, 1980), £2.00 Security with Nuclear Weapons? - Different Perspectives on National Security, (Ed) Regina Cowen Karp (SIPRI / Oxford University Press, 1991), £27.50 Nuclear Risk Analysis in Comparative Perspective, Roger E Kasperson (Allen & Unwin, 1987), £3.60 Verification: How Much is Enough?, Allan S Krass (SIPRI / Taylor & Francis, 1985), hbk £4.75 Bonn and the Bomb, Matthias Kuntzel (Pluto Press, 1995), £7.50 War in Space, Christopher Lee (Sphere Books, 1987), £3.00 Verification and Disarmament, Patricia M Lewis (Scientists Against Nuclear Arms, London, 1991), pmphlt £1.50 Weapons in Space, Franklin A Long, Donald Hafner & Jeffrey Boutwell (American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1986), £6.00 SIPRI Chemical & Biological Warfare Studies - 12: Views on Possible Verification Measures for the Biological Weapons Convention, (Ed) SJ Lundin (SIPRI/OUP, 1991), £3.50 SIPRI Chemical & Biological Warfare Studies - 13: Verification of Dual-use Chemicals under the Chemical Weapons Convention: The Case of Thiodiglycol, (Ed) SJ Lundin (SIPRI/OUP, 1991), £2.50 Nuclear-Free Defence, (Eds) Louis Mackay and David Fernbach (Heretic Books, London, 1983), pbk £5.00 A symposium wherein 25 people who are advocates of a variety of positions - from proponents of the use of conventional forces, to pacifists committed to nonviolent resistance - answer a series of questions, dealing with issues such as what is being defended, the principles of foreign policy, the armaments industry, women and the military, and what are acceptable forms of resistance. Some of the People all the Time, Alastair Mackie (Book Guild Publishing, Brighton, Sussex, 2006), hbk £17.99 An autobiography by a one-time Air Commodore and H-bomber pilot, turned health educator and nuclear disarmament campaigner (becoming Vice-Chair of CND). Civil Disobedience as Christian Obedience: Theological Reflections on Non-Violent Direct Action in Relation to the Nuclear Issue, Steven Mackie (British Council of Churches / Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1983), pmphlt £9.00 A short, but perhaps uniquely well-argued, call for British churches to get stuck into NVDA. Unholy Warfare - The Church and the Bomb, (Eds) David Martin & Peter Mullen (Basil Blackwell, 1983), pbk £4.50 Russia, Europe, The Bomb, and the Fall of Western Europe, Brian May (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984), hbk £5.50 Nuclear Peace: The Story of The Trident Three, John Mayer (Vision, London, 2002), hbk £16.99 The story of a successful direct action against Britain's nuclear weapons system, written by the lawyer who defended the activists in court. The Hidden Human Cost of Trident, Di McDonald & Jamie Woolley (Abolition 2000 UK, 2007), pbk £2.00 Seventh in the Blackaby Papers series dealing with defence and disarmament issues. After all the arguments about the financial implications of the continuing British nuclear weapons programme, this report also documents the human and environmental costs. Nuclear Weapons: Who's in Charge?, Hugh Miall (Macmillan, 1987), £4.00 The Nuclear Weapons Freeze and Arms Control, (Ed) Steven E Miller (Ballinger Publishing, Cambrdge, Massachusetts, USA, 1984), pbk £9.50 The CND Story, (Eds) John Minnion and Philip Bolsover (Allison & Busby, 1983), pbk £2.00 The first 25 years of CND in the words of many of the people involved. Race to the Finish? - The Nuclear Stakes, Dervla Murphy (John Murray, 1981), £2.90 No Fire, No Thunder: The Threat of Chemical and Biological Weapons, Sean Murphy, Alastair Hay and Steven Rose (Pluto, 1984), pbk £3.00 Back from the Abyss, Michael Nicholson (1984), pmphlt £1.50 The author's personal odyssey around northern Europe discussing the idea of a regional nuclear-free zone. The Effects of Nuclear War, Office of Technology Assessment of the US Congress (Croom Helm, 1980), hbk £4.00 The Plutonium Business and the Spread of the Bomb, Walter C Patterson (Paladin, London, 1984), pbk £3.00 A devastating expose of industrial megalomania, showing the disastrous implications for proliferation of the rush to build fast-breeder reactors. Voices of Survival in the Nuclear Age, Dennis Paulson (Wisdom Publications, 1986), £2.00 Nuclear-Free Zones, David Pitt & Gordon Thompson (Croom Helm, 1987), £5.00 The Writing on the Sky, Oliver Postgate (The Menard Press, London, 1983), pmphlt £2.00 Thinking it through: the Plain Man's Guide to the Bomb, Oliver Postgate (The Menard Press, London, 1982), pmphlt £3.00 This essay summarises a series of speeches given by this author (well-known for his books and television films for children) around the south of England, and on the radio, the previous year. Modernising NATO's Nuclear Weapons, Oliver Ramsbotham (Macmillan, 1989), £5.00 The Rossing File: The Inside Story of Britain's Secret Contract for Namibian Uranium, Alun Roberts (The Campaign Against the Namibian Uranium Contracts, London, 1980), pbk £4.00 Defence Disarmament Peace - the case of the cruise missile, William Rodgers (The Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding, 1980), pmphlt £1.50 Clearly it ought to have been subtitled "the case for cruise missiles"... the group publishing this pamphlet are what you might fear from their name. Guide to Nuclear Weapons 1984-85, Paul Rogers (University of Bradford School of Peace Studies, 1984), pbk £4.00 As Lambs to the Slaughter: The Facts about Nuclear War, Paul Rogers, Malcolm Dando, Peter van den Dungen (Arrow Books, 1981), pbk £2.00 Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare, Bertrand Russell (George Allen & Unwin, 1959), pbk £5.00 Nuclear Deterrence - Right or Wrong?, Roger Ruston (Commission for International Justice and Peace, London, 1981), pmphlt £4.00 A study of the morality of nuclear deterrence, from a Catholic perspective. Towards the Nuclear Holocaust, Martin Ryle (The Menard Press, London, 1981), pmphlt £2.00 Written by a Physics Nobel Prize winner, this well-researched text was one of the first pamphlets published by The Menard Press when the escalation of the Cold War in the eighties led them to branch out from being a publisher of literary texts to also dealing with nuclear issues. The Church and the Bomb, Bishop of Salisbury (Hodder & Stoughton, 1982), £2.50 The Gift of Time - The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now, Jonathan Schell (Granta, 1998), pbk £9.99 (secondhand also available for £6.99) The Unfinished Twentieth Century: The Crisis of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Jonathan Schell (Verso, 2003), pbk £4.00 (reduced from £8.00) How the world faces an inescapable choice between nuclear abolition and rapid prolifetation. How to get Rid of the Bomb, Gavin Scott (Fontana, 1982), £2.00 Race Against the Dying: Campaign against Chemical and Biological Warfare, Elizabeth Sigmund (Pluto Press, 1980), £3.00 Internationalization to Prevent the Spread of Nuclear Weapons, SIPRI (Taylor & Francis, 1980), hbk £13.25 Star Wars: Full Spectrum Sycophancy, Jack Straw and Ken Coates (Spokesman Books, for Socialist Renewal, Nottingham, 2001), pmphlt £3.00 The briefing in support of British backing for the US's missile defence (Star Wars) system, by the then Foreign Scretary, Jack Straw, is taken apart point by point by Ken Coates. Deadly Gambits - The Reagan Administration and the stalemate in nuclear arms control, Strobe Talbott (Picador, 1985), £3.00 Over Our Dead Bodies - Women Against the Bomb, (Ed) Dorothy Thompson (Virago, 1983), £4.00 Protest and Survive, (Eds) EP Thompson and Dan Smith (Penguin Special, 1980), pbk £3.50 Star Wars, E P Thompson (Penguin, 1985), £2.00 Las Armas Nucleares, Jesus Torquemada (Iepala Fundamentos, 1985), £2.00 In Spanish. Oser la Paix, Jean Toulat (Rencontres Cerf, 1985), £2.00 In French. Crucible of Despair: Effects of Nuclear War, Anthony Tucker & John Gleisner (Menard Press, 1982), £2.50 Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons, (Ed) Jonathan B Tucker (MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA), pbk £7.00 Writ of Summons: Legal Proceedings on the Deployment of Cruise Missiles in the Netherlands, AHJ van den Biesen (Ban the Cruise Missiles, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1986), £2.50 The Nuclear Trap - An Escape Route, Robert E Walters (Pelican Books, 1974), pbk £5.00 Unintended War - Beyond Deterrence, Arthur Waskow (American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, USA, 1962), pmphlt £5.00 Symbols of War: Pershing II and Cruise Missiles in Europe, Andrew White (Merlin Press / European Nuclear Disarmament, 1983), pbk £2.00 The Terror of Balance: Deterrence, Rearmament and the Illusion of Security, Andrew White (The Mernard Press, London, 1983), pmphlt £2.00 The Ground-Launched Cruise Missile - A Technical Assessment, Tim Williams (Electronics for Peace, Maidenhead, Berkshire, 1983), pmphlt £2.00 The pamphlet explains how, besides all the other arguments about this US escalation of the arms race, the politically-driven early deployment of cruise missiles was espcially dangerous since they might not have worked properly. On the Brink: Nuclear Proliferation and the Third World, Peter Worsley (Third World Communications, 1987), £3.50 Trident on Trial: The case for people's disarmament, Angie Zelter (Luath Press, Edinburgh, 2001), pbk £9.99 The story of the early years of Trident Ploughshares, told by those involved. Europe and America and The Nuclear Shadow, Lord Zuckerman (The Menard Press, London, 1983), pmphlt £2.00 Two essays published as part of a regular series of Menard Press pamphlets, in response to the political and military situation of the '80s which caused them to branch out from their earlier, purely literary, publishing. ORGANISATIONS you can contact which are concerned with some of the issues here include: Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 162 Holloway Rd, London N7 8DQ, Britain (tel +44- 20-7700 2393; fax 7700 2357; e-mail cnd@cnduk.org; web http://www.cnduk.org). Come Clean - WMD Awareness Programme, c/o Pugwash Office, Flat A, 63A Great Russell St, London WC1, Britain (tel +44-20-7405 6661; fax 7831 5651; e-mail info@comeclean.org.uk; web http://www.comeclean.org.uk). Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR), Ingles Manor, Castle Hill Ave, Folkestone, Kent CT20, Britain (tel +44-1303-851965; e-mail info@sgr.org.uk; web http://www.sgr.org.uk). International Peace Bureau (IPB), Rue de Zurich 41, 1201 Geneve, Switzerland (tel +41-22-731 6429; fax 738 9419; e-mail mailbox@ipb.org; web http://www.ipb.org). For further useful contacts see the Directory published in the latest Housmans Peace Diary.