Useful Resources

2015-2016 Critical Issues Forum
Useful Resources
Topic: Global Nuclear Vulnerability: Lessons for a More Peaceful World
*Please note that more resources will be added to the section of “This year’s topic-specific resources.”

General resources

Nuclear Threat Initiative Tutorials

http://tutorials.nti.org/table-of-contents/

Nuclear 101 – http://tutorials.nti.org/nuclear-101/overview/
Nonproliferation Regimes http://tutorials.nti.org/nonproliferation-regime-tutorial/nti-nuclear-nonproliferation-regime-treaties-by-country/
Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) Tutorial http://tutorials.nti.org/npt-tutorial/introduction/

Melissa Gillis, “Disarmament: A Basic Guide”, United Nations

((NPT–section 4, beginning on page 31)

http://www.un.org/disarmament/HomePage/ODAPublications/AdhocPublications/PDF/Basic_Guide-2011-web-Rev1.pdf

Which Countries Have Nuclear Weapons-BBC News World-Video
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-24277021

United Nations Audio Visual Library of International Law– NPT
http://legal.un.org/avl/ha/tnpt/tnpt.html

United Nations Disarmament Education
http://www.un.org/disarmament/education/

US State Department–NPT
http://www.state.gov/t/isn/npt/

Nuclear Disarmament Resource Collection
http://www.nti.org/analysis/reports/nuclear-disarmament/

Global Zero Interactive Map
http://www.globalzero.org/map

Nuclear Notebook (for nuclear weapons numbers)
http://bos.sagepub.com/cgi/collection/nuclearnotebook

What is Nuclear?
www.whatisnuclear.com

Nick Touran, “What is Nonproliferation?”
http://www.whatisnuclear.com/articles/proliferation.html

U.S.-Russia Nuclear Arms Control, Council on Foreign Relations
http://www.cfr.org/arms-control-disarmament-and-nonproliferation/us-russia-arms-control/p21620

William Harris, Craig Freudenrich, Ph.D. and John Fuller, “How Nuclear Bombs Work”
http://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-bomb.htm

How Stuff Works: Nuclear Weapons
http://science.howstuffworks.com/search.php?terms=nuclear+weapons

Federation of American Scientists: The Nuclear Information Project
http://fas.org/issues/nuclear-weapons/

Nuclear Threat Initiative 3-D Research Model of Facilities
https://www.youtube.com/user/webmasternti2010?feature=mhee

This year’s topic-specific resources:

Back to the Nuclear Brink New! By Daryl G. Kimball March 2016

The Nuclear Threat is More Complex and Unpredictable Than Ever New! December 31, 2015

See Inside the Underground Bunker That Could Launch a Nuclear War New! By Dan Sagalyn, pbs newshour, Feb 25, 2016.

Reducing the Risk of Nuclear War: Taking Nuclear Weapons Off High Alert New!
Union of Concerned Scientists, Feb 12, 2016.

Six Things You Should Know About the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Arsenal New!
On Reinvent.net website, Feb 1, 2016.

Lowering Nuclear Risks: An Interview with Former Defense Secretary William Perry New!
Interviewed by Daniel Horner and Kingston Reif, Arms Control Today, Jan/Feb 2016

The Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe is Greater Today than during the Cold War New!
By William J. Perry, The Huffington Post, January 20, 2016

Nuclear weapons risk greater than in cold war, says ex-Pentagon chief New!
The Guardian, January 7, 2016

As U.S. Modernizes Nuclear Weapons, ‘Smaller’ Leaves Some Uneasy New!
William Broad and David Sanger, The New York Times, January 11, 2016

Nuclear Weapons Countries: Military Incidents New!
March 2014-November 2015
Global Zero

Beyond the Summit: New Approaches to Nuclear Approaches New! by Gov Jerry Brown and Sec William J Perry

Future of Life New!

Why you should care about nukes New!

William J. Perry Project Website

My Journey at the Nuclear Brink, (BOOK)
By William Perry, Former US Secretary of Defense
http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=25448

My Personal Journey At the Nuclear Brink
Dr. William Perry, Former US Secretary of Defense,
http://www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org/my-personal-journey-at-the-nuclear-brink-by-bill-perry_633.html

Close Calls With Nuclear Weapons (Fact Sheet)
Union of Concerned Scientists

Close Calls With Nuclear Weapons
NTI

Avoiding War in Europe: The Risks From NATO-Russian Close Military Encounters
Ian Kearns – Arms Control Association

The Greatest Terrorist Threat: How to Stop Nuclear Material from Falling into the Wrong Hands
Sam Nunn, Richard Lugar, and Des Browne – Politico

Close Encounters: Risking an Accidental War
John Donnelly – CQ

Remembering the Cuban missile crisis, with humility
Benoit Pelopidas – European Leadership Network

NATO War Games Unwittingly Put Soviets and U.S. on ‘Hair Trigger’ in ’83, Analysis Suggests
Sam Roberts – New York Times

How a nuclear near-miss in ’95 would be a disaster today
Theodore Postol – Boston Globe

Disarm and Modernize
John Mecklin – Foreign Policy

5 Cold War Close Calls
Evan Andrews – History

Could U.S.-Russia Tensions go Nuclear?
Bruce Blair – Politico

20 Mishaps that Might Have Started a Nuclear War
Alan F. Philips – Nuclear Files

13 Times the U.S. Almost Destroyed Itself With It’s Own Nuclear Weapons
Bethan Owen – Deseret

Nuclear Command and Control: A History of False Alarms and Near Catastrophes
Eric Schlosser – NPR

Honey, There’s a Nuclear Bomb in the Yard
Japan Times

Analysis/Fact Sheets

Global Zero Report on Nuclear Risk Reduction: De-Alerting and Stabilizing the World’s Nuclear Force Postures
Global Zero

Too Close for Comfort: Cases for Nuclear Use and Options for Policy
Patricia Lewis, Heather Williams, Benoit Pelopidas, and Sasan Aghlani – Chatham House Report

Close Calls With Nuclear Weapons
NTI

Close Calls With Nuclear Weapons (Fact Sheet)
Union of Concerned Scientists

Country-specific Information

Arms Control Association
A web source on arms control containing issue briefs, fact sheets, threat assessment briefs, and current event reports.
http://www.armscontrol.org

Nuclear Threat Initiative Country Profiles
http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/index.html

Multimedia

Movies, videos, interactive maps

The Man Who Saved the World

Fail-Safe

WarGames

Dr. Strangelove

The Bomb
PBS Video
A powerful story of the most destructive invention in human history, outlining how America developed the nuclear bomb, how it changed the world and how it continues to loom large in our lives. Witness the raw power and strangely compelling beauty of rare views of above-ground nuclear tests.
http://video.pbs.org/program/bomb/

NukeMap by Alex Wellerstein
(Interactive Map that allows you to simulate the real life effects of a Nuclear Bomb in any area)

United Nations
http://www.unmultimedia.org/photo/

International Atomic Energy Agency
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/multimedia

Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Preparatory Commission
http://www.ctbto.org/photos/

EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Conference 2015 First Plenary Session
The NPT Review Conference and the Future of Nuclear Disarmament

http://www.iiss.org/en/events/eu%20conference/sections/eu-conference-2015-6aba/plenary-1-b248

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION Resources/General Information on Nuclear Disarmament

United Nations
United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)
Main website for sources pertaining to disarmament containing spotlights on recent developments, updates and announcements.
http://www.un.org/disarmament/

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
http://www.unidir.org/

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
Text and documents from NPT and PrepCom Conferences.
http://www.un.org/disarmament/WMD/Nuclear/NPT_Review_Conferences.shtml

Applying a Disarmament Lens to Gender, Human Rights, Development, Security, Education and Communication: Six Essays
http://www.un.org/disarmament/HomePage/ODAPublications/CivilSocietyAndDisarmament/2012/NGO_pub_2012.pdf

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization
Main website for treaty text and status, recent news, international monitoring system status, and updates.
http://www.ctbto.org

Nuclear Weapons Free Zones
UNODA

Overview, map, definition
http://www.un.org/disarmament/WMD/Nuclear/NWFZ.shtml

Selected NGO/Research Institutes:

Acronym Institute
http://www.acronym.org.uk/

Arms Control Association:
http://www.armscontrol.org

Arms Control Today
http://www.armscontrol.org/aca/428

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
http://www.thebulletin.org/

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Nuclear Policy Program
http://carnegieendowment.org/programs/npp/index.cfm?fa=proj&id=116

Center for Arms Control, Energy, and Environmental Studies
http://www.armscontrol.ru/

Center for Defense Information (joined the Project on Government Oversight)
http://www.pogo.org/about/cdi-joins-pogo.html

Center for Strategic and International Studies
http://www.csis.org/

Federation of American Scientists
http://www.fas.org