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Alternative East Asian Nuclear Futures, Volume I: Military Scenarios

Reactor-Grade Plutonium and Nuclear Weapons: Exploding the Myths by Gregory S. Jones

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Nuclear Rules, Not Just Rights: The NPT Reexamined

Should We Let the Bomb Spread?

Should We Let the Bomb Spread?

Nuclear Weapons Materials Gone Missing: What Does History Teach?

Nuclear Weapons Materials Gone Missing: What Does History Teach?

Moving Beyond Pretense: Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation

Moving Beyond Pretense: Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation

Nuclear Weapons Security Crises: What Does History Teach?

Nuclear Weapons Security Crises: What Does History Teach?

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The Next Arms Race

Pure Risk: Federal Clean Energy Loan Guarantees

Pure Risk: Federal Clean Energy Loan Guarantees

Nuclear Power’s Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks

Nuclear Power's Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks

Pakistan’s Nuclear Future: Reining in the Risk

Pakistan's Nuclear Future: Reining in the Risk

Reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

Reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty

Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter

Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter

Falling Behind: International Scrutiny of the Peaceful Atom

Falling Behind: International Scrutiny of the Peaceful Atom

Pakistan’s Nuclear Future: Worries Beyond War

Pakistan's Nuclear Future: Worries Beyond War

Gauging U.S.-Indian Strategic Cooperation

Gauging U.S.-Indian Strategic Cooperation

Taming the Next Set of Strategic Weapons Threats

Taming the Next Set of Strategic Weapons Threats

Getting Ready for a Nuclear Ready Iran

Getting Ready for a Nuclear Ready Iran

Getting MAD: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction, Its Origins and Practice

Getting MAD: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction, Its Origins and Practice

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Beyond Nunn-Lugar: Curbing the Next Wave of Weapons Proliferation Threats from Russia

Twenty First Century Weapons Proliferation

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Best of Intentions: America’s Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation

Best of Intentions: America's Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation

Twenty First Century Weapons Proliferation

Twenty First Century Weapons Proliferation

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Prevailing in a Well-Armed World: Devising Competitive Strategies Against Weapons Proliferation

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Fighting Proliferation: New Concerns for the Nineties

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