Supplemental Materials
The Challenge of Nuclear Weapons
The Challenge of Nuclear Weapons introduces students to the history of nuclear weapons and the concept of deterrence. It examines arguments for and against nuclear weapons and looks at three challenges facing us today: the leftover arsenals of the Cold War, proliferation, and the threat of nuclear terrorism.
Online Resources from the Choices Program
Scholars Onine videos
Bring university scholars into your classrooms with video featuring top scholars answering specific question in his or her field of expertise.Images
To be used during Day 1 activity of The Challenge of Nuclear Weapons.Online Ballot: Nuclear Weapons - What Do You Think?
After study and deliberation on the issue of nuclear weapons policy, we encourage students to make their views known. A report on student views will be developed.
Online Lessons from the Choices Program
A Nuclear North Korea?
A free lesson in which students view videos from our Scholars Online video library and think critically about the issues surrounding North Korea and nuclear weapons.Mapping the Nuclear World
An online lesson plan.Nuclear Weapons: What Should Our Policy Be?
A free lesson that engages students in consideration of the options at the center of The Challenge of Nuclear Weapons.Unleashing the Energy of the Atom
A free lesson plan and reading developed as a science lesson that accompanies Ending the War Against Japan: Science, Morality, and the Atomic Bomb.North Korea and Nuclear Weapons
A free Teaching with the News lesson that explores a range of contrasting policy options on this issue.The U.S. and Iran: Confronting Policy Alternatives
A free Teaching with the News lesson that engages students in the question of the U.S. relationship with Iran and the issue of Iran's uranium enrichment program.
Web Links
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Extensive resources on the issues surrounding nuclear weapons.Center for Ameircan Progress: Nuclear & Biological Weapons
This is a source for articles on the current status of weapons of mass destruction (wmd).Center for Defense Information
A source for fact and figures as well as the latest international news on nuclear weapons and policies.Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Comprehensive data on nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons as well as tutorials on the NPT, timelines, maps and numerous links.Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Threats
A series of maps reflecting the worldwide proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and their missile delivery systems. It is provided by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.Federation of American Scientists' Nuclear Information Project
Factual information and analysis about the status and operations of nuclear weapons, the policies that guide their potential use, and developments in the nuclear fuel cycle. FAS also provides access to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), a congressional support agency. CRS does not make its publications directly available to the public online. The FAS collection of CRS reports indexed on their site (including a selection on nuclear weapons and arms control) primarily address national security, foreign policy and related topics.National Security Archive
This collection includes declassified documents on many aspects of U.S. nuclear policy and nuclear crises including the Cuban Missile Crisis.The NewsHour
This is an online NewsHour focus that explores the issues surrounding National Missile Defense.Race for the Superbomb
This PBS site explores the U.S. program to build a weapon more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Japan.Conelrad
An extensive resource on the impact of nuclear weapons and the Cold War on popular culture.
Books
Allison, Graham. Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2004) 264 pages.
Busch, Nathan E. No End in Sight: The Continuing Menace of Nuclear Proliferation (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2004) 489 pages.
Sagan, Scott and Waltz, Kenneth. The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003) 220 pages
Schwartz, Stephen I. (ed.) Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institute Press, 1998) 680 pages.Walzer, Michael. Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations (New York: Basic Books, 2000) 361 pages.
Related Curriculum Titles
Ending the War Against Japan: Science, Morality, and the Atomic Bomb allows students to examine primary source materials and background information available to U.S. decision-makers in mid-1945 to reconstruct both the scientific odyssey which produced the bomb and the debate within the Truman administration on whether the bomb should have been used against Japan and how.
The Cuban Missile Crisis: Considering its Place in Cold War History probes the complex relationship between the United States and Cuba, and examines the crisis that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. The Cuban Missile Crisis draws on groundbreaking research emerging from a series of international conferences.
