Recommended Books
The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War

While I encourage readers to nose around in the bibliography section, this is a short list of books that have influenced me over the years. They are in no particular order.

Herman Kahn, On Thermonuclear War, Greenwood Press Reprint; 2nd edition, 1978. amazon.com

Lynn Eden, Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation, Cornell University Press, 2003. amazon.com

Kai Bird, Martin Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Knopf, 2005. amazon.com

Paul N. Edwards, The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America, The MIT Press, Reprint edition, 1997. amazon.com

Fred Turner, Counterculture into Cyberculture: How Stewart Brand and the Whole Earth Network Transformed the Politics of Information, University of Chicago Press, Forthcoming.

Fred Kaplan, The Wizards of Armageddon, Stanford University Press Reprint, 1991. amazon.com

Steven Kull, Minds at War: Nuclear Reality and the Inner Conflicts of Defense Policymakers, Basic Books, 1990. amazon.com

Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth; The Abolition, Stanford University Press Reprint, 2000. amazon.com

Paul S. Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, University of North Carolina Press, 1994. amazon.com

Ira Chernus, Dr. Strangegod: On the Symbolic Meaning of Nuclear Weapons, University of South Carolina Press Reprint edition, 1989. amazon.com

Robert Jay Lifton, Richard Falk, Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism, Basic Books, Second Updated Edition, 1991. amazon.com

Robert Jay Lifton, Death in Life, Basic Books, 1982. amazon.com

Geoffrey Galt Harpham, On the grotesque: Strategies of contradiction in art and literature, Princeton University Press, 1982. amazon.com

Anthony Francis Caputi, Buffo: The genius of vulgar comedy, Wayne State University Press, 1978. amazon.com

© 2005 Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi