Readings to Support Learning

A think tank providing analyses about science and policy issues affecting international security. Contains country specific satellite imagery analyses, historical overview of nuclear weapons programs worldwide and news publications.

http://isis-online.org

James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies

http://cns.miis.edu/

International Organization & Nonproliferation Programs Inventory

http://cns.miis.edu/inventory/index.htm

Nonproliferation Review

http://cns.miis.edu/npr/index.htm

WMD Junction

http://wmdjunction.com/index.htm

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies

http://www.armscontrol.ru/

Nuclear Threat Initiative

Country Profiles

An overview of country’s nuclear, chemical biological and missile programs.

http://www.nti.org/country-profiles/

Nuclear Security Project

http://www.nuclearsecurityproject.org/site/c.mjJXJbMMIoE/b.3483737/k.4057/Nuclear_Security_Project_Home.htm

Treaties and Regimes

An overview on treaties, organizations, regimes relating to nuclear disarmament, arms control and nonproliferation.

http://www.nti.org/treaties-and-regimes/treaties/

PIR Center
http://www.pircenter.org/

Ploughshares Fund

World Nuclear Stockpile Report

http://www.ploughshares.org/world-nuclear-stockpile-report

What Nuclear Weapons Cost Us

http://www.ploughshares.org/what-nuclear-weapons-cost-us

Reaching Critical Will

Disarmament programme of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom covering multilateral disarmament meetings, carrying out research and analysis on disarmament, military spending and human security.

http://reachingcriticalwill.org

Russia’s nuclear weapons
http://russianforces.org/

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

http://www.sipri.org/

Union of Concerned Scientists

Citizens and scientists providing research on nuclear weapons and global security, missile defense, nuclear terrorism, and space weapons. http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/nuclear_weapons/

World Newspapers
http://www.world-newspapers.com/

Disarmament Forum
Civil society and nuclear disarmament , 2010 No 4 United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

http://unidir.org/bdd/fiche-periodique.php?ref_periodique=1020-7287-2010-46-en

Civil Society and Disarmament

Click to access NGO_pub_2012.pdf

Future Challenges

Reaching Critical Will: Publications

http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/resources/publications-and-research/publications

Reaching Critical Will: Delegitimisation of nuclear weapons

http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/resources/fact-sheets/critical-issues/4584-delegitimisation-of-nuclear-weapons

Monitoring Implementation of the 2010 NPT Action Plan: Disarmament http://cns.miis.edu/stories/120419_cns_npt_monitoring_report.htm
New START Ratification: A Bittersweet Success http://cns.miis.edu/stories/101222_new_start_ratified.htm

NGO/Advocacy Groups

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
http://www.cnduk.org/index.php

Friends of the Earth
http://www.motherearth.org/nuke/index_en.php

Global Security Institute
http://www.gsinstitute.org/gsi/index.html

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons

http://icanw.org

Learn Peace

Activity book for primary and secondary school students. Activities include mock UN debates, writing competitions, conducting opinion polls and role-playing a nuclear crisis.

http://icanw.org/learn_peace

IPPNW
http://www.ippnw.org/

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/

Blogs

Arms Control Wonk

http://armscontrolwonk.com

FAS Strategic Security Blog

http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/

Arms Control Now, Blog of the Arms Control Association

http://armscontrolnow.org/

Nukes of Hazard

http://nukesofhazardblog.com/

Russia’s nuclear weapons

http://russianforces.org/

Interactive Websites/Multi Media:

CTBT

Map of treaty status, the international monitoring system, and locations of nuclear explosions.

http://www.ctbto.org/map/

Compilation of videos regarding ending nuclear testing, the monitoring systems, inspections, and interviews with specialists and scientists.

http://www.ctbto.org/videos/

“1945-1998”

Bird’s eye view of nuclear explosions conducted in various parts o the globe.

http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/

WMD Awareness Programme

http://www.wmdawareness.org.uk/teachers/fun-and-games

http://www.wmdawareness.org.uk/teachers/lesson-plans

NukeTube

http://cns.miis.edu/multimedia/index.htm

Atomic Archive

http://www.atomicarchive.com/sciencemenu.shtml

Op-Eds, Analyses and other Publications

Critical Questions: Urgent Decisions for the Second Obama Administration, CNS experts propose nonproliferation and disarmament priorities

http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/issues-obama-administration-its-second-term/

Schultz, George P., et. al, “Toward a Nuclear-Free World,” Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, (January 15, 2008).

http://www.nuclearsecurityproject.org/publications/toward-a-nuclear-free-world

Schultz, George P., William et. al, “A World Free of Nuclear Weapons,” Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, (January 4, 2007).

http://www.nuclearsecurityproject.org/publications/a-world-free-of-nuclear-weapons

Schultz, George P., William et. al, “Deterrence in the Age of Nuclear Proliferation,” Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, (March 7, 2011)

http://www.nuclearsecurityproject.org/publications/deterrence-in-the-age-of-nuclear-proliferation

Schultz, George P., William et. al, “How to Protect Our Nuclear Deterrent” Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, (Jan 20, 2010)

http://www.nuclearsecurityproject.org/publications/how-to-protect-our-nuclear-deterrent-012010

Jeffrey Lewis, “Bar Nunn,” The US and Russia never really cured their nuclear mistrust. And now it’s come back. Foreign Policy, Oct 17, 2012.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/17/bar_nunn

Hurd, Douglas, et al, “Start Worrying and Learn to Ditch the Bomb,” The Times, (June 30, 2008).

http://www.pugwash.org/reports/nw/nuclear-weapons-free-statements/NWFW_statements_UK.htm

Gorbachev, Mikhail, “The Nuclear Threat,” Wall Street Journal Op-Ed, (January 31, 2007).

http://www.nuclearsecurityproject.org/uploads/File/TheNuclearThreat-Gorbachev-WSJ-013107.pdf

Fahmy N, Lewis PM, “Possible Elements of an NWFZ Treaty in the Middle East”, Disarmament Forum no. 2, UNIDIR, 2011

http://www.unidir.org/pdf/articles/pdf-art3085.pdf

Buck Rogers and the atomic education of America

http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/buck-rogers-and-the-atomic-education-of-america

Additional Advanced Resources

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A Debate

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/2009/02/13/abolishing-nuclear-weapons-debate/dty

Beyond Treaties: Immediate Steps to Reduce Nuclear Dangers http://www.carnegieendowment.org/2012/10/10/beyond-treaties-immediate-steps-to-reduce-nuclear-dangers/e08j

Deterrence During Disarmament: Deep Nuclear Reductions and International Security http://www.carnegieendowment.org/2011/03/14/deterrence-during-disarmament-deep-nuclear-reductions-and-international-security/14xx

Reducing the Role of Nuclear Weapons: What the NDPI Can Do http://carnegieendowment.org/2012/11/26/diminishing-role-of-nuclear-weapons-non-proliferation-and-disarmament-initiative-s-good-beginning/emyn#

CNS: Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons http://cns.miis.edu/opapers/pdfs/delegitimizing_nuclear_weapons_may_2010.pdf

Reaching Critical Will, “The 2010 NPT Action Plan Monitoring Report”

http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Publications/2010-Action-Plan/RCW_Final_Report.pdf

Movies, Videos

Nuclear Tipping Point (2010)

A documentary tackling nuclear dangers and the ongoing work of four Cold Warriors and their vision of a world without nuclear weapons and the steps to get there. http://www.nucleartippingpoint.org/home.html

UN Educational Movies

Embrace! A world free of nuclear weapons

Short film tracing the history of nuclear weapons tests since 1945 and their devastating effects on the environment and human health.

http://www.un.org/disarmament/education/Movies/embrace/

Nuclear Weapons: and the Human Future – How you can make a difference

http://www.un.org/disarmament/education/Movies/nwhfuture/

CTBT: For a Safer and More Secure World

The film depict activities for the Preparatory Commission for the CTBTO in establishing a global verification regime to monitor compliance with the Treaty.

http://www.un.org/disarmament/education/Movies/ctbt/

1945-1998″ by Isao Hashimoto

http://www.ctbto.org/specials/1945-1998-by-isao-hashimoto/

Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project’s “Trinity” test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan’s nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea’s two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).

Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing”the fear and folly of nuclear weapons.” It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.

Barefoot Gen (1983)

A story about the effect of the atomic bomb on a boy’s life and the lives of the Japanese people.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085218/

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/

Last Best Chance (2005)

A docudrama that shows the threat posed by vulnerable nuclear weapons and materials around the world and underscores what the stakes are.

http://www.lastbestchance.org/

The Day After Trinity (1981)

The film tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who led the effort to build the first atomic bomb.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080594/

White Light Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007)

An HBO documentary film featuring interviews with fourteen Japanese survivors and four Americans involved in the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0911010/

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