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Deadly Arsenals: Tracking Weapons of Mass Destruction (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

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This is one of the best and most comprehensive bookshelf volumes on the topic of nuclear, biological, chemical and conventional weapons production, proliferation, and stockpiling. Organized by weapons system type and geographic location, Cirincione and his research team provide a straightforward and rather frightening catalog of current programs and stockpiles, as well as regional and country-specific forecasts.

Though it is not the most comprehensive coverage of the topics, it is the best source of information that one can lift single-handedly. The only other single-source volumes you'll find on these topics are issued by the U.S. government and contain thousands of pages.

If you need to know something about weapons of mass destruction or ballistic missile programs, this is the book to reference.

This book was useful and sort-of interesting, and I bet that it looks
good as part of the package when the authors are trying to get tenure,
but it reads like a report from the UN.

"Spying on the Bomb" is much better written, even if it
covers slightly different material.

So, if you have a professional interest or if you need to have
a copy of every relevant book on this topic, then go for it.
Otherwise, read something more mainstream. My all-time favorite
is "The Curve of Binding Energy".