Think Outside the Bomb 2008 National Youth and Grassroots
Conference for Nuclear Abolition -
August 14-17, 2008
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston
Recommended Reading
This reading list is from last year's conference -- lease peruse these materials while we compile a more updated list for this year's conference. These materials are intended as both a primer for those newer to the nuclear abolition movement as well as a refresher for those who have been stuck inside a little too long.
Current Nuclear Weapons Policy
Whither Nuclear Weapons Policy? by Greg Mello, June 2007
The Shape of Things to Come: The Nuclear Posture Review, Missile Defense, and the Dangers of a New Arms Race by Andrew Lichterman and Jacqueline Cabasso, April 2002 (PDF)
Nuclear Bombs Forever? from Voices from the Earth, 2006
Nuclear Forces
US Nuclear Forces by William Arkin & Robert Norris, January 2007 (PDF)
Nuclear Stockpiles from Nuclear Files
Missiles of Empire: America's 21st Century Global Legions by Andrew Lichterman, Fall 2003 (PDF)
Militarism
CMU and the Development of Warfare Robotics by David Meieran, January 2007
Raptors, Robots, and Rods from God -- The Nightmare Weaponry of Our Future by Frida Berrigan, February 2007
Your Local Police Force Has Been Militarized: The Empire Turns Its Guns on the Citizenry by Paul Craig Roberts
Upsurge in ICE Raids and Resistance in Orange County, California
ICE Raids: The New Gestapo in our Brown Communities? by D, July 2007
737 U.S. Military Bases = Global Empire by Chalmers Johnson, February 2007
The Pentagon's Blank Check by Robert Dreyfuss and Tom Engelhardt, June 2007
The Poverty Draft from Not Your Soldier
The Militarization of Neuroscience by Hugh Gusterson, April 2007
Universities and the Military from Fiat Pax
History of the Navy in Vieques from Vieques Travel Guide
The Nuclear Weapons Complex
Plutonium Pit Production -- LANL's Pivotal New Mission by Greg Mello, July 2006
Radioactive Neighbor: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by Norme Buske, February 2005
The Nevada Test Site: Desert Annex of the Nuclear Weapons Laboratories by Andrew Lichterman, winter 2003
Nuclear Watchdogs, College, Clean Energy Firm Submit Bid To Manage Livermore Lab; Green, LLC" Proposes Shift To Civilian Science To Reflect New National Security Priorities by Tri-Valley CAREs, October 2006
The Continuing Assault: How the Department of Energy Avoids the National Environmental Policy Act, Breaks Public Trust, and Fails to Protect the Environment in Oak Ridge, Tennessee by the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
The Nuclear Chain of Destruction
Victims of the Nuclear Power Boom from Voices from the Earth, 2006
The Model Nuclear Inventory: Accountability is Democracy, Transparency is Security by Reaching Critical Will, 2005
Depleted Uranium -- A Silver Bullet's Toxic Legacy from Shundahai
Discounted Casulaties -- The Human Cost of Depleted Uranium from The Chugoku Shumbun, 2000
International Experience with Reprocessing and Related Technologies by Arjun Makhijani, January 2006
Nuclear Colonialism
Nuclear Trust: the Radioactive Colonization of Native North America by Ward Churchill, July 1999
The Nuclear History of Micronesia and the Pacific by Richard Salvador, August 1999
Indigenous People and the Nuclear Age by Reaching Critical Will
High-Level Nuclear Waste, Private Fuel Storage and the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians by Pete Lister, July 2005
Continuing Targets: New Mexico and Navajo & Hopi Lands from Voices from the Earth, 2006
Impacts of Resource Development on Native American Lands
Nuclear Weapons & International Law
The Legality of Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: A Guide to the Historic Opinion of the International Court of Justice by John Burroughs, 1997
Saving the Nuclear Nonproliferation Agreement by David Krieger, March 2005
Nuclear Weapons & US Foreign Policy
The So-Called "US Record of Compliance": Why the US Numbers Game is Not Disarmament by Jacqueline Cabasso & Andrew Lichterman
War is Peace, Arms Racing is Disarmament: The Non-Proliferation Treaty and the U.S. Quest for Global Military Dominance by Andrew Lichterman with contributions from Jacqueline Cabasso, May 2005
From the "Belly of the Beast": A Report About Corruption, War, Nuclear Terrorism and Resistance in the United States by Joseph Gerson, October 2005:
The Nuclear Complex: America, the Bomb, and Osama bin Laden by Zia Mian & Pervez Hoodbhoy, February 2006
The Post-Colonial Bomb
Nuclear Nationalism by Zia Mian, May 1999
The Nuclear Confrontation in South Asia by MV Ramana & Zia Mian, 2002
Limits of the Non-Proliferation Regime -- And why Multilateralism is the Only Solution by Michael Spies, February 2006
Poisoned Power
Poisoned Power: The Case Against Nuclear Power Plants Before and After Three Mile Island by John Gofman & Arthur Tamplin, 1979
Just the Facts: A Look at the Five Fatal Flaws of Nuclear Power by Public Citizen, 2007
False Promises: Debunking Nuclear Industry Propaganda by Jessie Carr, Scott Cullen, Dulce Fernandes, October 2006
The Nuclear Disarmament Movement -- Victories, Pitfalls, Possible Futures
Nuclear Disarmament is Not Enough by Brian Martin, June 1986
Some Thoughts about the Path to Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and Strategies for Organizing in the United States by Andrew M. Lichterman, April 1999
The Rise and Undermining of Anti-Nuclear Political Action by Greg Adamson, May 1999
Up from the Concrete: Making Connections and Building Coalitions for a U.S. Movement to Abolish Nuclear Weapons by Andrew Lichterman, January 2000
Acts of Hope: Challenging Empire on the World Stage by Rebecca Solnit, May 2003
A People's History of UC Weapons Lab Management by Will Parrish, December 2005
The Way is the Goal: Disarmament Now by Greg Mello, February 2006
Still Standing at the Precipice After All These Years. Why? A Critical Look Back at the 1990s by Jacqueline Cabasso, February 2006
Gender & Disarmament by Reaching Critical Will, 2005
No Shortcuts: From This March to the Next by Andrew Lichterman, February 2007