Editing Nuclear weapon (section)

== Further reading ==
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* [[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.&nbsp;62–67. "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 weapons. Instead large-scale developments will create barriers to taking real steps toward [[Nuclear disarmament|reducing nuclear risks]]—by blocking further cuts in nuclear arsenals and potentially spurring new deployments." (p.&nbsp;67.)
* [[Michael T. Klare]], "Missile Mania: The death of the [[INF Treaty|INF [Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces] Treaty]] [of 1987] has escalated the arms race", ''[[The Nation]]'', vol. 309, no. 6 (September 23, 2019), p.&nbsp;4.
* [[Ernest J. Moniz|Moniz, Ernest J.]], and [[Sam Nunn]], "The Return of Doomsday: The New Nuclear Arms Race – and How Washington and Moscow Can Stop It", ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'', vol. 98, no. 5 (September / October 2019), pp.&nbsp;150–161. Former [[U.S. Secretary of Energy]] [[Ernest Moniz]] and former [[U.S. Senator]] [[Sam Nunn]] write that "the old [strategic] equilibrium" between the United States and Russia has been "destabilized" by "clashing national interests, insufficient dialogue, eroding arms control structures, advanced missile systems, and new [[cyberweapon]]s... Unless Washington and Moscow confront these problems now, a major international conflict or nuclear escalation is disturbingly plausible—perhaps even likely." (p.&nbsp;161.)
* [[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 (January 18, 2018), pp.&nbsp;13–15.
* [[Eric Schlosser]], ''[[Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety]]'', [[Penguin Press]], 2013, {{ISBN|1594202273}}. The book became the basis for a 2-hour 2017 [[PBS]] [[American Experience]] episode, likewise titled "Command and Control". Nuclear weapons continue to be equally hazardous to their owners as to their potential targets. Under the 1970 [[Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons]], [[nuclear-weapon states]] are obliged to work toward the elimination of nuclear weapons.
* 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.&nbsp;29–32. "Nuclear strategists systematically underestimate the chances of nuclear accident... [T]here have been too many close calls for accidental use to be discounted." (p.&nbsp;32.)
* David Wright and Cameron Tracy, "Over-hyped: Physics dictates that [[hypersonic weapon]]s cannot live up to the grand promises made on their behalf", ''[[Scientific American]]'', vol. 325, no. 2 (August 2021), pp.&nbsp;64–71. "Failure to fully assess [the potential benefits and costs of hypersonic weapons] is a recipe for wasteful spending and increased global risk." (p.&nbsp;71.)
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