Publications

The titles below provide links to reports and articles that describe U.S. nuclear planning as it occurred during the 1990s. The publications, which are primarily based on documents declassified and released under the Freedom of Information Act, were conducted with generous support from the Ploughshares Fund, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.

• “Global Nuclear Stockpiles, 1945-2002,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists(November/December 2002);
• “Preemptive posturing,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (September/October 2002);
• “Appendix 10A: World Nuclear Forces,” SIPRI Yearbook 2002 (with Joshua Handler);
• “NRDC Nuclear Notebook: Israeli Nuclear Forces, 2002,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 2002 (with Robert S. Norris, William M. Arkin, and Joshua Handler);
• “NRDC Nuclear Notebook: Russian Nuclear Forces, 2002,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2002 (with Robert S. Norris, William M. Arkin, and Joshua Handler);
• “Nuclear arms agreement is step backward,” Oakland Tribune, May 26, 2002.
• “Cold War Redux,” Newsday, May 19, 2002.
• “NRDC Nuclear Notebook: U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2002,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 2002 (with Robert S. Norris, William M. Arkin, and Joshua Handler);
• “NRDC Nuclear Notebook: India’s Nuclear Forces, 2002,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2002 (with Robert S. Norris, William M. Arkin, and Joshua Handler);
• “Bomb deal a dud, part one,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2002, pp. 25-26.
• “NRDC Nuclear Notebook: Pakistan’s Nuclear Forces, 2002,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2002 (with Robert S. Norris, William M. Arkin, and Joshua Handler);
• “The Unruly Hedge: Cold War Thinking at the Crawford Summit,” Arms Control Today, December 2001, pp. 8-12.
• “Appendix 6A: Tables of nuclear forces,” SIPRI Yearbook 2001 (with Joshua Handler). The full yearbook is available from Oxford University Press;
• “The Matrix of Deterrence: U.S. Strategic Command Force Structure Studies,” The Nautilus Institute, Berkeley, California, May 2001 (PDF-format);
• “NRDC Nuclear Notebook: U.S. Nuclear Forces, January 2001,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2001 (with Robert S. Norris, William M. Arkin, and Joshua Handler);
• “US Nuclear Strategy Reform in the 1990s,” The Nautilus Institute, Berkeley, California, March 2000 (PDF-format);
• “NATO Nuclear Policy: Back To The Future,” The Monitor, Center for International Trade and Security, University of Georgia, September 1999 [PDF-format] (with Wade Huntley);
• “The Post Cold War SIOP and Nuclear Warfare Planning: A Glossary, Abbreviations, and Acronyms,” Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC, January 1999 (with William M. Arkin);
• “Dangerous Directions,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 1998 (PDF-format) (with William Arkin);
• “Nuclear Futures: Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction and U.S. Nuclear Strategy,” British American Security Information Council (BASIC), March 1998 (PDF-format);
• “Targets of Opportunity,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 1997 (PDF-format);
• “The USA and Counter-Proliferation: A New and Dubious Role for U.S. Nuclear Weapons,” Security Dialogue, Oslo, Norway, December 1996 (PDF-format) (with Joshua Handler).