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== Further reading == * Louis Beres, ''Apocalypse: Nuclear Catastrophe in World Politics''. The risks and consequences of nuclear war and nuclear terrorism. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1980. {{ISBN|9780226043609}} * [[Laura Grego]] and David Wright, "Broken Shield: Missiles designed to destroy incoming nuclear warheads fail frequently in tests and could increase global risk of mass destruction", ''[[Scientific American]]'', vol. 320, no. no. 6 (June 2019), pp. 62β67. "Nuclear-armed missiles are a political problem that technology cannot solve.... Current U.S. [[missile defense]] plans are being driven largely by [[technology]], [[politics]] and [[fear]]. Missile defenses will not allow us to escape our vulnerability to [[nuclear weapon]]s. Instead large-scale developments will create barriers to taking real steps toward [[Nuclear disarmament|reducing nuclear risk]]sβby blocking further cuts in nuclear arsenals and potentially spurring new deployments." (p. 67.) * [[Jessica T. Mathews]], "The New Nuclear Threat", ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', vol. LXVII, no. 13 (20 August 2020), pp. 19β21. "[P]owerful reasons to doubt that there could be a limited nuclear war [include] those that emerge from any study of history, a knowledge of how humans act under pressure, or experience of government." (p. 20.) * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233628/http://www.vijbooks.com/book/232/G-G-Pamidi/Possibility-of-Nuclear-War-in-Asia-An-Indian-Perspective/9789381411513.html "Possibility of Nuclear War in Asia: An Indian Perspective"], a project of [[United Service Institution]] of India, USI, Discusses the possibility of a nuclear war in [[Asia]] from the [[India]]n point of view. * [[Thomas Powers]], "The Nuclear Worrier" (review of [[Daniel Ellsberg]], ''The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a [[Nuclear War]] Planner'', New York, Bloomsbury, 2017, {{ISBN|9781608196708}}, 420 pp.), ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', vol. LXV, no. 1 (18 January 2018), pp. 13β15. * [http://www.jfklibrary.org/Events-and-Awards/Forums.aspx?f=2009 "Presidency in the Nuclear Age"], conference and forum at the [[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum|JFK Library]], Boston, October 12, 2009. Four panels: "The Race to Build the Bomb and the Decision to Use It", "Cuban Missile Crisis and the First Nuclear Test Ban Treaty", "The Cold War and the Nuclear Arms Race", and "Nuclear Weapons, Terrorism, and the Presidency". * Tom Stevenson, "A Tiny Sun" (review of [[Fred Kaplan (journalist)|Fred Kaplan]], ''The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War'', Simon and Schuster, 2021, 384 pp.; and Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press, ''The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Atomic Age'', Cornell, 2020, 180 pp.), ''[[London Review of Books]]'', vol. 44, no. 4 (24 February 2022), pp. 29β32. "Nuclear strategists systematically underestimate the chances of nuclear accident... [T]here have been too many close calls for accidental use to be discounted." (p. 32.)
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