Providing a vivid and gripping A-Z history of America’s deceptive use of arms control as a means of actually furthering its quest for nuclear dominance, Ritter sheds light on a contradictory US agenda little understood by the lay reader, while providing sufficient detail and context to engage the specialist.

“ Scorpion King is must reading for all those who should be concerned about the danger of our nuclear weapons policies. That’s everyone.” — DANIEL ELLSBERG, author of The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Cold War Planner

“Ritter details how decades of failed attempts to break the U.S. addiction to nuclear weapons have led to a dead-end, trillion-dollar modernization plan to produce more “usable” nukes. But as Ritter so brilliantly argues, giving up is not an option. Read the book to understand why, and get inspired to take action.” —MEDEA BENJAMIN, codirector, CODEPINK for Peace