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Laur, Timothy M.; Steven L. Llanso; Walter J. Boyne, eds. The Encyclopedia of Modern U.S. Military Weapons. Berkley , 1998. Provides detailed information on weapons in use by the United States military.
McFarland, Stephen L. America's Pursuit of Precision Bombing, 1910-1945. Smithsonian, 1995. History of America's bomb technology.
Powers, Thomas. Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb. Da Capo, 2000. Argues that Heisenberg, the Nazis' leading atomic scientist, obstructed the development of an atomic bomb.
Rhodes, Richard. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. Simon & Schuster, 1995, 1996. Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union.
Tomajczk, Stephen F. Dictionary of the Modern United States Military. McFarland, 1996. Contains over 15,000 weapons and other lexical units of warfare.
Nuclear weapons
Butler, Richard. Fatal Choice: Nuclear Weapons and the Illusion of Missile Defense. Westview, 2001. Warns of the dangers of nuclear proliferation in the era after the Cold War.
Dahl, Per F. Heavy Water and the Wartime Race for Nuclear Energy. IOP, 1999. A fascinating account of the Allied and Axis powers' quest for nuclear dominance in World War II.
Hein, Laura, and Mark Selden, eds. Living with the Bomb: American and Japanese Cultural Conflicts in the Nuclear Age Sharpe, 1997. 
Landau, Elaine. The New Nuclear Reality. Twenty-First Century, 2000. Assesses the current realities of nuclear capabilities in the world arena. For high school readers.
LeBaron, Wayne. America's Nuclear Legacy. Nova Science, 1998. History of nuclear physics, tests, experiments, accidents, and missiles.
Rhodes, Richard. The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Simon & Schuster, Reprint, Touchstone, 1986. 1995. Major history of the nuclear era's technology and personalities.
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