Books
Reading books is a great way to learn more about nuclear weapons and the dangers of nuclear war. There are many to choose from, below are some written by journalists, scholars, and antinuclear activists ranging from academic to practical. This is not an exhaustive list. Some great resources may have been omitted unintentionally.
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Categories: Nuclear Weapons and War | Disarmament and Action | Nuclear and Climate | Peace and Hope | History and Memoir
Nuclear Weapons and War:
Command and Control by Eric Schlosser
Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years by McGeorge Bundy
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg
Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha by Robert E. Jacobs
Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
On Nuclear War and Peace by Albert Schweitzer
The Trillion Dollar War Machine by William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman
War in Heaven: the Arms Race in Outer Space by Helen Caldicott
Disarmament and Action:
Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave up the Bomb by Togzhan Kassenova
Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy by Ray Acheson
Indefensible Weapons: The Politics and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism by Robert Jay Lifton and Richard Falk
It is Possible: A Future Without Nuclear Weapons by Ward Wilson
Nuclear Abolition: A Scenario by Timmon Wallis
The Nuclear Ban Treaty: A Transformational Reframing of the Global Nuclear Order by Ramesh Thakur
Thermonuclear Democracy: Choosing Between Democracy and Doom by Elaine Scarry
Zero: The Case for Nuclear Weapons Abolition by David Krieger
The Path to Zero: Dialogues on Nuclear Dangers by Richard Falk and David Krieger
Nuclear and Climate:
Ocean on Fire by Anaïs Maurer
Warheads to Windmills by Timmon Wallis
100 Miles from Home: Nuclear Contamination in the Communities of the Ohio River Valley by Carol Rainey
Peace and Hope:
Choose Hope by David Krieger and Daisaku Ikeda
A Quest for Global Peace by Joseph Rotblat and Daisaku Ikeda
Truth and Consequence: Reflections on Catastrophe, Civil Resistance, and Hope by Daniel Ellsberg
History and Memoir:
American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age by Paul Boyer
Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician’s Memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands by James N. Yamazaki
The Complete Story of Sadako Sasaki and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Sue DiCicco and Masahiro Sasaki
Ghosts of Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino
A Great Flash of Light: One American’s Journey Across the Nuclear Age by Frank C. Bognar
Hiroshima by John Hersey
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Masako’s Story: Surviving the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima by Kikuko Otake
My Deepest Desire by Tamiki Hara, Translated by Liza Dalby
Postman of Nagasaki by Peter Townsend
8:15 A True Story of Survival and Forgiveness from Hiroshima by Akiko Mikamo