JOHN MUELLER:
ATOMIC OBSESSION: NUCLEAR ALARMISM
FROM HIROSHIMA TO AL-QAEDA
November 20, 2009
Atomic
Obsession: Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda, by John
Mueller, published in November 2009 by
Oxord
University Press (amazon.com
is selling the book at a substantial discount.)
VIDEO AND AUDIO
Bloggingheads discussion of Atomic Obsession with Robert
Farley, November 9, 2009 (40 min.) html
Book
Forum presentation on Atomic
Obsession,
with comments by Michael Krepon and Jeffrey J. Lewis, Cato Institute,
October 29, 2009 (80 min.) link to video and
podcast
TedxColumbus
presentation on Atomic Obsession,
October 20, 2009 (17 min.) link
to video
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PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS, AND PRINT INTERVIEWS BY JOHN MUELLER
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Comments on this piece by Bruce Schneier, November
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The Rise of Nuclear
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7, 2009 html
(with
Ian S.
Lustick) Israel's Fight-or-Flight Response, National Interest,
November/December 2008, pp. 68-73 html
Don't
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8, 2008
Fearing
fear itself. Bulletin
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Nuclear Poor), November/December 2007, pp. 55-56 pdf
Apocalypse Later. The
National Interest, Nov./Dec. 2007, pp. 19-20 (response to
letters by Graham Allison, Joseph Cirincione, and William C. Potter)
Radioactive Hype. The
National Interest,
Sep./Oct. 2007, pp. 59-65 pdf
pdf
reformatted for easier reading
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PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST
Carle,
Glenn R. Overstating Our Fears. Washington Post, 13 July
2008, B7 html
Chapman,
Steve.
Terrorists Can't Make the Big 1. Chicago Tribune, 7 February
2008 html
DeGroot, Gerard. Dismissing Doomsday (review of Atomic Obsession) Arms Control Today,
November 2009 html
Easterbrook,
Gregg. Term Limits: The Meaninglessness of
"WMD." New Republic 7 October 2002
Gardner,
Daniel. The Science of Fear.
New York: Dutton, 2008
Gerges,
Fawaz A. The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global.
New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2005
Ignatius,
David. The Fading Jihadists. Washington
Post 28 February 2008, p. A17 html
Jenkins, Brian M. Will
Terrorists Go Nuclear? Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 2008.
Jervis, Robert. Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying National Interest Nov/Dec
2009, pp. 73-84 (review of, and ruminations on, Atomic Obsession) html
Johnson,
Robert H. Improbable Dangers: U.S. Conceptions
of Threat in the Cold War and After. New York:
St. Martin's, 1994, now
available in a new high quality reprint edition
Levi,
Michael A. On Nuclear
Terrorism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
Mack,
Andrew. Human Security Brief
2007. Vancouver, BC: Human Security Report Project,
Simon Fraser University, 2008) pdf
Richardson,
Louise. What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy,
Containing the Threat New York: Random House,
2006
Sageman,
Marc. Leaderless Jihad.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Seitz,
Russell. Weaker Than We Think. American
Conservative 6 December 2004
html
Stenersen,
Anne.
2008. Al‑Qaida's Quest for
Weapons of Mass Destruction: The History behind
the Hype. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller,
2008. Shorter and more
accessible version: pdf
Wirz,
Christoph, and Emmanuel Egger. Use of nuclear and radiological weapons
by terrorists? International
Review of the Red Cross, September 2005 pdf