The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War (1993)

Crisis Stability and Nuclear War, co-editor with Kurt Gottfried (Oxford University Press,
1988)

Strategic Command and Control: Redefining the Nuclear Threat (1985)

Progress in Arms Control? Selected Readings from Scientific American.  San Francisco : Freeman, 1979.  Co-editor with Bruce Russett.

Contributions to Edited Volumes


"Russia’s Nuclear Collapse:  The Case for a Mutual and-Down," Chap. 2 in: A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World, Frank Blackabt and Tom Milne, eds. St. Marins Press, New York, 2002

"The United States," Chap. in:  The Gift of Time, Jonathan Schell, Holt & Co., New York, 1998

Contributing author, The Nuclear Turning Point: A Blueprint for Deep Cuts and
De-Alerting of Nuclear Weapons, Harold A. Feiveson, ed. (1999)

"Targeting and Controlling the Bomb" and "Defending against the Bomb" (co-authored with
John E. Pike and Stephen I. Schwartz) in Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences
of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940, Stephen I. Schwartz, ed. (1998)

"Alerting in Crisis and Conventional War," in Managing Nuclear Operations, A. B. Carter, J. D. Steinbruner, and C. A. Zraket, eds. (1987)

Additional Publications

2001

"The Ultimate Hatred is Nuclear," New York Times, October 22, 2001

"Nukes: A Lesson from Russia ," Washington Post (oped), July 11, 2001

"Impact of NMD on Russia , Nuclear Security," Issue Brief, July 10, 2001

2000

Why a Thin U.S. National Missile Defense Looks Thick to the Russians, Press Briefing on National Missile Defense (7/7/2000)

Trapped in the Nuclear Math, New York Times Op Ed (6/13/2000)

A Longer Nuclear Fuse with Frank von Hippel, The Washington Post (6/6/2000)

Some Sensible Options for U.S. Missile Defense, Moscow Times (6/3/2000)

"START III, the SIOP, and the Cold War Mindset."  May 18 Senate Democratic Thursday Luncheon

Background Paper on the Strategic War Plan and Start Reductions, Democratic Policy
Committee of the U.S. Senate (5/18/2000)

Arms Control, Again, PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (5/4/2000)

"Cold War Era Assumptions Drive U.S. Nuclear Force Levels," Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers, Issue Brief, May 17, 2000.

Empty Reassurances (4/28/2000)

"How to Lengthen the Nuclear Fuse," Harold A Feiveson and Bruce G. Blair, Spectrum, March 2000

1999

Weapons and Y2K, PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (12/30/99)

Russia's Aging War Machine: Economic Weakness and the Nuclear Threat, with Cliff Gaddy, The Brookings Review (Summer 1999)

Russian Roulette, "Frontline", PBS (2/23/99) Read the "Frontline" transcript or the complete
text of the interview with Bruce Blair.

1998

For the Record, The Washington Post (6/03/98)

Loose Cannon, co-author, The National Interest (Summer 1998)

Accidental Nuclear War: A Post-Cold War Assessment, co-author, New England
Journal of Medicine (4/30/98)

De-Alerting and "Nuclear Escrow": Ending the Specter of Surprise Nuclear Attack, panel discussion (with Jonathan Dean, Stansfield Turner and Harold Feiveson) at the UN (4/09/98)

Interview in "The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons", by Jonathan
Schell, The Nation (2/09/98)

"The Changing Strategic Landscape of Nuclear Policy", Testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, Armed Services Committee (3/31/98)

"The Danger of Launch on Warning," FAS January/February  1998

"Nuclear Weapons", PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (1/06/98)

"Bombs Away", PBS Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (1/06/98)

1997

Redoubling Nuclear Weapons Reduction, with Harold Feiveson and Frank von Hipple, The Washington Post (11/12/97)

Taking Nuclear Weapons Off Hair-Trigger Alert, with Harold Feiveson and Frank N. von Hippel, Scientific American (November 1997)

From Nuclear Deterrence to Mutual Safety: As Russia's Arsenal Crumbles, It's Time to Act, with Sam Nunn, The Washington Post (6/22/97)

"Russian Nuclear Policy and the Status of Detargeting", Testimony before the House Subcommittee on Military Research and Development, Committee on National Security
(3/13/97)

"A Clear and Present Danger." Policy Brief, Committee on Nuclear Policy, March 7, 1997

"Danger of Maintaining Current Alert Status of Nuclear Weapons."  Memorandum to Clinton Administration Officials, March 1997

1996

Where Would All the Missiles Go?, The Washington Post (10/15/96)

Who's Got the Button? The Slightly Shaky Control of Russia's Nuclear Weapons,
The Washington Post (9/29/96)

"Global Zero Alert for Nuclear Forces," Brookings Occasional Paper (1995)

1995

"Russian Realities and the Illusion of Arms Control," Christian Science Monitor, September 19, 1995 .

"Four Trillion and Counting," The Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project Committee, Stephen I. Schwartz, ed., in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December, 1995.

"And the Moral Price of Nuclear Peace," Washington Post, August 10, 1995 .

"Lengthening the Fuse," The Brookings Review, Summer 1995 (Reprinted in Congressional Record, August 1, 1995).

1993

 "Russia's Doomsday Machine," New York Times, October 8, 1993 .

"Ukraine's Nuclear Backlash," Brookings Review, Summer 1993.

Lighten Up on Ukraine , New York Times, June 1, 1993 .

Break-up of the U.S.S.R.: Whither Nuclear Control? Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, Fall 1992.

Strengthening Nuclear Safeguards through Arms Control, in The Future of Arms Control: New Opportunities, report for the House Committee on Foreign Affairs by the Congressional Research Service, Committee Print, 102nd Congress, 2nd Session.  Washington , D.C. : GPO, April 1992.

Accidental Nuclear War (with Henry W. Kendall), Scientific American, December 1990.

The Effects of Warning On Strategic Stability (with John D. Steinbruner), Brookings Occasional Paper, June 1990.