Psychological Aspects of the Nuclear Arms Threat: Annotated Bibliography Update: I. A—F

Abstract

This article provides the first section of a four-part update of an annotated bibliography of books, articles, and chapters related to the psychological aspects of the nuclear arms threat. This particular section lists some 128 references. The complete bibliography provides details of 596 references.

Abhor, imagine, abolish.

“…Here, I aim to give briefly a sense of the role of psychology in the problems of nuclear weapons. First, there is the four-part annotated bibliographic update on Psychological Aspects of the Nuclear Arms Threat (French, 1989a(French, , 1989b(French, , 1989c(French, , 1990; see also Blumberg & French, 1992), which has almost 600 references. This resource, like the other older references in what follows, is useful to this day, since the 1980s saw a peak of public and academic concern about nuclear weapons, including psychological aspects, and there has been no fundamental change since.…”