Ron Rosenbaum - How the End Begins

E-mail to author from Elbridge Colby.

Martin Sieff, “Russian Iskander Missiles Ready to Roll,” UPI, November 24, 2008, www.spacewar.com/reports/Russian_Iskander_Missiles_Ready_To_Roll_999.html.

Lars Olberg, “European Missile Defense Tour,” March 7, 2010, http://missilemonitor.wordpress.com/.

Associated Press, in post on blog, https://dogbrothers.com/phpBB2/index.php?topic=1677.0.

“The Atlantic Revisits an Iran War Game,” www.safehaven.com/forums-17700.htm; James Fallows, “The Nuclear Power Beside Iraq,” The Atlantic, May 2006, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/05/the-nuclear-power-beside-iraq/4819/2/?.

Author interview with Colonel Sam Gardiner.

docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache.

Jonathan Weisman and Peter Spiegel, “U.S. Keeps First-Strike Nuclear Strategy,” Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2010, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304620304575166263632513790.html.

Jonathan Weisman and Peter Spiegel, “After Arms Pact, a Push to Ratify,” Wall Street Journal, Europe News, April 9, 2010, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304198004575171203223830386.html.

Press release, Union of Concerned Scientists, “NPR Will Test President Obama on Transforming Nuclear Policy,” April 5, 2010, www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/npr-will-test-president-obama-on-nuclear-policy-0368.html.

Introduction, “Maximizing Presidential Decision Time,” p. x.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Julian Borger, “START Signed, Sealed, Not Yet Delivered,” guardian.co.uk, April 7, 2010, www.guardian.co.uk/world/julian-borger-global-security-blog/2010/apr/08/start-treaty-prague.

William J. Perry and George P. Shultz, “How to Build on the Start Treaty,” New York Times, op-ed, April 11, 2010, www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/opinion/11shultz.htm.

The Heritage Foundation, “The START Treaty: Undermining National Security,” April 5, 2010, www.heritage.org/Research/Factsheets/The-START-Treaty-Undermining-National-Security.

“Iran Builds New Generation of Centrifuges—Nuclear Chief,” RIA Novosti, Moscow, April 9, 2010, http://en.rian.ru/world/20100409/158502207.html.

“Deputy Defense Minister: Tel Aviv Will Be Enemy’s Main Target,” Arutz Sheva, April 7, 2010, www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136891.

William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, “Obama’s Youth Shaped His Nuclear-Free Vision,” New York Times, July 5, 2009, p. A1, www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/world/05nuclear.html.

George P. Shultz, William J. Perry, Henry A. Kissinger, and Sum Nunn, “A World Free of Nuclear Weapons,” Wall Street Journal, January 4, 2007, p. A15; reprinted, Friends Committee on National Legislation, www.fcnl.org/issues/item.php?item_id=2252&issue_id.

Author interview.

Film produced by National Security Project, www.nationalsecurityproject.org.

Peregrine Worsthorne, “The Unanswered Question About the Cold War,” The Spectator, September 4, 1996.

Author interview.

Bruce Blair and Sam Nunn, “From Nuclear Deterrence to Mutual Safety: As Russia’s Arsenal Crumbles, It’s Time to Act,” Washington Post, June 22, 1997, www.cdi.org/aboutcdi/bblair_publications.html.

Bruce Blair, Strategic Command and Control (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1985).

“A Conversation with Author Alistair Horne,” Charlie Rose, July 7, 2009, www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10457.

Confirmed by exchange with Robert McNamara relayed to author by Errol Morris, director of The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert McNamara, from interview.

George Perkovich and James M. Acton, Abolishing Nuclear Weapons (London: Routledge/International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2008).

“Presidents Obama and Medvedev, U.N. Secretary General Ban Among Leaders to Announce Support for the Global Zero Summit, www.globalzero.org/.

Review essay by Elbridge Colby of George Perkovich and James Acton, Abolishing Nuclear Weapons, Adelphi Paper No. 396, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, www.docstoc.com/docs/25708946/A-Response-to-Elbridge-Colby.

R. Jeffrey Smith, “Ambassador Chosen as Arms Negotiator,” Washington Post, February 4, 1989, http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19890204&id=vjEcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1nkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5155,4028365.

Author interview.

“Global Zero Action Plan,” Global Zero Commission, February 2010, http://static.globalzero.org/files/docs/GZAP_6.0.pdf.

“Political, Military Leaders from China, India, Pakistan, and Britain Respond to Obama Prague Speech: All Nuclear Powers Should Commit to Multi-Lateral Negotiations for Elimination of All Nuclear Weapons,” Global Zero Commission press release, April 6, www.globalzero.org/en/global-zero-press-release-april-6.

John Hughes, “A Nuclear-Free World? Not Yet,” Christian Science Monitor, June 18, 2009, www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2009/0618/p09s01-coop.html.

NTI: Nuclear Threat Initiative: Non Proliferation Treaty, tutorial, www.nti.org/h_learnmore/npttutorial/glossary.html.

National Security Archives: “How Much Is Enough?: The U.S. Navy and ‘Finite Deterrence,’” William Burr, ed., National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book #275, May 1, 2009, www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb275/index.htm.

“Released SIOP Histories Point to Nuclear Overkill Plans,” National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book #236, www.hsdl.org/hslog/?=node/3784.

Ron Rosenbaum, “The Subterranean World of the Bomb,” Harper’s, March 1978, p. 87.

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book #275.

Janne E. Nolan, An Elusive Consensus: Nuclear Weapons and American Security After the Cold War (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1999), http://books.google.com/books?id=aXdI14wY-RUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false.

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book #275.

Author e-mail exchange with Jesse Sheidlower.

David M. Abshire Lecture, “The Inimitable Admiral Arleigh ’31 Knots’ Burke: Lessons for Leadership and Strategy Today,” Washington, D.C., January 29, 2010, http://csis.org/event/inimitable-admiral-arleigh-31-knots-burke-lessons-leadership-and-strategy-today.