Bibliography:Nuclear weapon

World War II

 * see also World War II, air war/Bibliography
 * Jones, Vincent C. Manhattan: The Army and the Bomb (1985) official Army history
 * Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), good overview excerpt and text search
 * Thayer, 	Harry. Management of the Hanford Engineer Works in World War II (1996) 224 pages excerpt and text search

Since 1945

 * Bundy, McGeorge. Danger and Survival: Choices about the Bomb in the First Fifty Years (1988)
 * Cirincione, Joseph. Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (2007) - 206 pages
 * Cochran, Thomas B., and Robert S. Norris. Making the Russian Bomb: From Stalin to Yeltsin (1994)
 * Croddy, Eric, and James J. Wirtz, eds. Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Encyclopedia of Worldwide Policy, Technology, and History (2 vol 2004), excerpt and text search
 * Gibson, James N. Nuclear Weapons of the United States: An Illustrated History (1996) covers every American nuclear delivery system
 * Hansen, 	Chuck. US Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History(1988), historical and technical data for every warhead built by the U.S. since 1945.
 * Hewlett, Richard G., Oscar Edward Anderson, Francis Duncan. A History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (1962) scholarly AEC history
 * Holdstock, Douglas, and Frank Barnaby. The British Nuclear Weapons Programme, 1952-2002 (2003) online edition
 * Holloway, David. Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 (1996), 480pp; excerpt and text search
 * Loeber, Charles R. Building The Bombs: A History of the Nuclear Weapons Complex (2004), 262pp, strongest on post-1990
 * Menon, Raja. Weapons of Mass Destruction: Options for India (2004) 308 pages excerpt and text search
 * Norris, Robert S. Norris, Andrew S. Burrows, Richard W. Fieldhouse. British, French, and Chinese Nuclear Weapons (1994) online edition
 * Quester, George H. The Nuclear Challenge in Russia and the New States of Eurasia (1995) 288 pages excerpt and text search
 * Rhodes, 	Richard. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (1996) excerpt and text search
 * Rotter, Andrew J. Hiroshima: The World's Bomb (2008) excerpt and text search

Image, fiction

 * Bartter; Martha A. The Way to Ground Zero: The Atomic Bomb in American Science Fiction (1988) online edition
 * Boyer, Paul. By the Bomb's Early Light, (1985)
 * Broderick, Mick.. Nuclear Movies, (1991)
 * Shapiro, Jerome F. Atomic Bomb Cinema: Apocalyptic Imagination on Film. (2002)

Fission and boosted fission
See discussion and links in the appropriate technical subpage
 * McPhee, John (1994), The Curve of Binding Energy, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
 * Sublette, Carey, "4.1 Elements of Fission Weapon Design", Nuclear Weapons Frequently Asked Questions
 * Cote, Owen R., Jr., (1996), "Appendix B: A Primer on Fissile Materials and Nuclear Weapon Design", Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material, CSIA Studies in International Security, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
 * Natarajan, V. (July-August 2000), "Notes on certain technical aspects of P.K.Iyengar's article", Bharat Rakshak Monitor 3 (1)