Army Chemical Review presents professional information about Chemical Corps functions related to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, smoke, flame, and civil support operations.
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Colonel P. Harwell
The Commandant's Reading Program
President Harry S. Truman once said, "Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers." Reading should form the
foundation of every leader's self-development program. It supplements institutional training and operational experience
and provides leaders with knowledge to react to a complex world. The Commandant's Reading Program provides chemical,
biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) leaders with the basis for a lifelong self-development program. It supplements
other reading lists from the Chief of Staff of the Army to the local unit level, with a particular emphasis on the CBRN profes-
sion. The Commandant's Reading Program is all-inclusive. CBRN leaders should use it as a guide, but should develop their
personal programs based on their individual needs, knowledge, and experiences.
With each issue of , the reading program continues to evolve. Based on Brigadier General James
Bonner's guidance, the program is expanding. Previous entries on the CBRN profession and weapons of mass destruction
(WMD) terrorism are now joined by entries on leadership; strategy; and the building of agile, adaptive leaders and effective
organizations. Lastly, each issue continues to include works on contemporary issues facing the CBRN community of practice
and profession of arms.
• Graham T. Allison, Nuclear table Catastrophe, Henry Holt and Company, LLC, New
York, 2004, ISBN-13: 978-0-8050-7852-7.
• Kurt M. Campbell et al., The Nuclear Tipping Point: Why States Reconsider Their Nuclear Choices, Brookings Institution
Press, Washington, D.C., 2004, ISBN-13: 978-0-8157-1330-2.
• Charles D. Ferguson and William C. Potter, The Four Faces of Nuclear , Routledge, Taylor, & Francis Group,
New York, 2005, ISBN-13: 978-0-415-94244-1.
• Laurie Garrett, Out of Balance, The Penguin Group, New
York, 1994, ISBN-13: 978-0-14-025091-6.
• Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak, Megawatts and Megatons: The Future of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons,
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002, ISBN-13: 978-0-226-28427-9.
• Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman, Warfare,
Random House Publishing Group, 2002, ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-6653-4.
• David E. Hoffman, Legacy, Anchor
Books, New York, 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0-307-38784-4.
• Gregory D. Koblentz, Living Weapons: Biological Warfare and International Security, Cornell University Press, New
York, 2009, ISBN-13: 978-0-8014-7752-2.
• William Langewiesche, Poor, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York, 2007,
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-10678-2.
• Judith Miller et al., War, Touchstone, New York, 2002, ISBN-13: 978-
0-684-87159-2.
• Michael B. A. Oldstone, Viruses, Plagues, & History: Past, Present, and Future, Oxford University Press, New York, 2010,
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-532731-1.
• Jonathan B. Tucker, War of Nerves: Warfare World War I to Al-Qaeda, Anchor Books, New York, 2006,
ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3233-4.
Through the last decade, the U.S. Army Chemical Corps and partners from across the CBRN enterprise have
provided persistent support to the U.S. Northern Command Defense CBRN Response Force mission. These WMD
terrorism-focused entries provide a balance of technological and policy challenges that are facing the Nation, the
Army, and the Corps.
• Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction, "Are We Prepared? Four WMD Crises That Could Transform
U.S. Security," National Defense University Press, Washington, D.C., June 2009,