Top 10 books on nuclear weapons and arms control

Michael Krepon is co-founder of the Stimson Center, Diplomat Scholar at the University of Virginia, and author or editor of thirteen books, most recently, Better Safe than Sorry, The Ironies of Living with the Bomb (Stanford University Press, 2009).

He named his top ten books on nuclear weapons and arms control for Foreign Policy. One book on his list:

McGeorge Bundy, Danger and Survival, Choices About the Bomb in the First Fifty Years (1988).

Bundy's mind worked like a jeweler examining all facets of the policy dilemmas associated with the Bomb. An elegant writer, he came to the subject honestly: His father was Henry L. Stimson's assistant at the War Department, and he helped Stimson write his memoirs.

Read about all ten books on Krepon's list.

Also see the Page 99 Test: Better Safe Than Sorry: The Ironies of Living with the Bomb by Michael Krepon.

--Marshal Zeringue