Ron Rosenbaum - How the End Begins

www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/opinion/18morris.html?pagewanted=all.

Anthony H. Cordesman, “Iran, Israel and Nuclear War,” Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, revised November 19, 2007, http://csis.org/publication/iran-israel-and-nuclear-war.

Hersh, The Samson Option.

See Ralph N. Clough, East Asia and U.S. Security, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1974.

Joseph Kahn, “Chinese General Threatens Use of A-Bombs if U.S. Intrudes,” New York Times, International Section, July 15, 2005, www.nytimes.com/2005/07/15/international/asia/15china.html.

“The Weapons of World War III,” July 8, 2008.

Staff writers, “China Proves to Be an Aggressive Foe in Cyberspace,” Washington Post, November 11, 2009, www.washingtonpost.com>World>Asia/Pacific.

Greg Granger, “The Paradox of Unilateralism,” analysis in section “Strategic Nuclear Weapons in George Bush’s National Security Policy,” May 20, 2003, www.unc.edu/depts/diplomat/archives_roll/2003_04-06/granger_paradox/granger_paradox2.html.

The document can be viewed at www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/…/WarPlanIssueBrief2010.pdf.

Author interview.

Ian Traynor, “Pre-emptive Nuclear Strike a Key Option, Nato Told,” The Guardian, January 22, 2008, www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jan/22/nato.nuclear.

Author interview.

Joe Cirincione, “It’s About the Bomb, Not Obama,” Huffington Post, October 9, 2009, www.huffingtonpost.com/joe-cirincione/its-about-the-bomb-not-ob_b_315446.html.

“Case of the Dubious Missileman,” Washington Post, January 20, 1975.

Detroit Free Press, November 2, 1975.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Transcript of Vice President Dick Cheney on Fox News Sunday, Fox News, December 22, 2008.

The Volokh Conspiracy (blog), www.volokh.com/archives/archive_2008_12_21-2008_12_27.shtml; “24 hours a day, by a military aide carrying a football that…”: Orin Kerr, “A President’s Lawful Authority to Respond to a Nuclear Attack:”, The Volokh Conspiracy, December 23, 2008, http://volokh.com/2008/12/23/a-presidents-lawful-authority-to-respond-to-a-nuclear-attack/(accessed 4/19/10).

The Prize Cases, 67 U.S. 635 (1863).

Austin Darat and Thomas R. Keanis, Law’s Violence (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992), p. 25.

“‘Erratic’ Nixon Might Set Off Nuclear Crisis, Officials Feared,” Montreal Gazette, August 28, 1974, http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19740828&id=BokxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1KEFAAAAIBAJ&pg=988,3742207.

Author interview.

Akhil Reed Amar testimony at Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee of the Judiciary House of Representatives, October 6, 2004.

Suzanne Nelson, “Continuity Commission Weighs Presidential Succession,” Roll Call, October 28, 2003, www.continuityofgovernment.org/pdfs/102803RollCall.pdf(accessed 4/19/10).

See for instance George Quester, “Cultural Barriers to an Acceptance of Deterrence,” in Roman Kolkowicz, ed., The Logic of Nuclear Terror (London: Allen & Unwin, 1987).

Statement of Dr. Bruce Blair to Hearing of House Government Operations Committee, September 26, 1985.

“The Continuity of the Presidency: The Second Report of the Continuity of Government Commission, June 2009,” Preface: “The Continuity of Government,” www.continuityofgovernment.org/SecondReport.pdf.

Text of National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51, available at www.democraticunderground.com.

Author interview.

“The Human Button,” BBC Radio 4 FM, December 2, 2008.

Peter Hennessy and Richard Knight, “HMS Apocalypse: Deep in the Atlantic, a Submarine Waits on Alert,” Daily Mail, November 30, 2008, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1090400/HMS-Apocalypse-Deep-Atlantic-submarine-waits-alert-nuclear-missiles-end-world--.html.

E-mail from David Murtagh.

Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).

Author interview.

Author interview.

Hans M. Kristensen, Robert S. Norris, and Ivan Oelrich, “From Counterforce to Minimal Deterrence: A New Nuclear Policy on the Path Toward Eliminating Nuclear Weapons,” Occasional Paper No. 7 (Washington, D.C.: Federation of American Scientists and the Natural Resources Defense Council, April 2009), p. 2, www.fas.org/pubs/_docs/OccasionalPaper7.pdf.

Ron Rosenbaum, “The Subterranean World of the Bomb,” Harper’s, March 1978.

Fred Kaplan, The Wizards of Armageddon (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983).

such stuff as Herman Kahn’s On Escalation: Herman Kahn, On Escalation (New York, Basic Books, 1965).

United States Strategic Command First Annual Strategic Deterrence Symposium, program, “Keynote Speakers,” p. 3, www.stratcom.mil/search/?q=chilton.

Tape-recorded by author.

Elaine M. Grossman, “Top U.S. General Spurns Obama Pledge to Reduce Nuclear Alert Posture,” Global Security Newswire, January 27, 2009.

“It is misleading to us the term: Ibid.

Walter Pincus, “Clinton’s Goals Detailed,” Washington Post, Politics Section, January 19, 2009, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011802268.html.

Nathan Hodge, “Nuke Review: Deploying, De-MIRVing, and De-Targeting,” Wired, Danger Room, April 6, 2010, www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/04/the-nuclear-posture-review-deploying-de-mirving-and-de-targeting.

Military Periscope, “Dual Phenomenology,” www.periscope.ucg.com/terms/t0000114.html.

“The National Institute for Public Policy is a nonprofit public education organization that focuses on a wide spectrum of rapidly evolving foreign policy and international issues,” www.nipp.org.

notorious mid-1960s books: Herman Kahn, Thinking About the Unthinkable (New York: Horizon, 1962); On Thermonuclear War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960).

Robert S. Norris, Hans M. Kristensen, and Christopher E. Paine, “Nuclear Insecurity: A Critique of the Bush Administration’s Nuclear Weapons Policy,” Natural Resources Defense Council, September 2004, www.nrdc.org/nuclear/insecurity/critique.pdf.