Mysticism and Rabbinic Judaism (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter), 1982.

Dr. Strangegod: On the Symbolic Meaning of Nuclear Weapons (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press), 1986.

A Shuddering Dawn: Religious Studies and the Nuclear Age, edited by Ira Chernus and Edward T. Linenthal, (Albany: SUNY Press), 1989.

Nuclear Madness: Religion and the Psychology of the Nuclear Age (Albany: SUNY Press), 1991.

General Eisenhower: Ideology and Rhetoric (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2002)

Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2002)

Eisenhower and Apocalypse Management: The Discourse of National (In)Security (submitted for publication to Stanford University Press)

The Idea of Nonviolence in U.S. History: http://www.colorado.edu/ReligiousStudies/chernus/4800/NonviolenceBook/index.htm

II. Articles (selected)

"Mythologies of Nuclear War," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. L, no. 2, Summer 1982, pp. 255-273.

"Mythology and Nuclear Strategy," Dialogue, vol. 17, no. 4, Winter 1984, pp. 31-36.

"Imagining the Unimaginable," Bulletin of Peace Proposals, 16:1, 1985, pp. 79-85.

"The Nuclear Issue: A Jewish Approach?" The Reconstructionist, vol. L, no. 8, July-August 1985, pp. 7-9, 14, 26.

"War and Myth: 'The Show Must Go On,'" Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. LIII, no.3, Fall 1985, pp. 449-464.

"The Pilgrimage to the Merkavah: An Interpretation of Early Jewish Mysticism," in J. Dan, ed. Early Jewish Mysticism (Jerusalem: The Hebrew University), 1986, pp. 1-35.

"Paul Tillich and the Depth Dimension of the Nuclear Age," Union Seminary Quarterly Review, vol. XLI, nos. 3&4, 1987, pp. 1-24.

"Nuclear Images in the Popular Press: The Age of Apocalypse" and "Nuclear Images in the Popular Press: From Apocalypse to Static Balance," in Chernus and Linenthal, eds., A Shuddering Dawn, 1989, pp. 3-19, 33-45.

"Order and Disorder in the Definition of Peace," Peace and Change,

vol. 18, no. 2, April, 1993, pp. 99-124.

"The Origins of Eisenhower’s Ideology in World War II," Armed Forces and Society, vol. 23, no. 4, Summer, 1997, pp. 595-613.

"The Word ‘Peace’ as a Weapon of (Cold) War," Peace Review, vol. 10, no. 4, December, 1998, pp. 605-611.

"Eisenhower: Turning Himself Toward Peace," Peace and Change, vol. 24, no. 1, January, 1999, pp. 48-75.

"Eisenhower and the Soviets, 1945-1947," Rhetoric and Public Affairs, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring, 1999, pp. 1-19.

"Toward a Nonviolence History of the Nuclear Age," in Simon Harak, SJ, ed., Nonviolence for the Third Millennium (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2000).

"Meanings of Peace: The Rhetorical Cold War after Stalin," in Kenneth A. Osgood and Klaus Larres, eds. The Cold War After Stalin's Death:A New International History (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming.)

"Operation Candor: Fear, Faith, and Flexibility," Diplomatic History (forthcoming).

III. Reviews (selected)

The Future of Immortality and Other Essays for a Nuclear Age by Robert Jay Lifton, Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

Minds at War by Stephen Kull, Religious Studies Review.

Ethics in the Nuclear Age, ed. Todd Whitmore, Current Reviews in Religion.

Beyond Nuclear Thinking, by Robert Malcolmson, Journal of International History.

The Ethics of War and Peace, ed. Terry Nardin, Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

American Evangelicals and the U.S. Military, by Anne C. Loveland, Pacific Historical Review.

The Art of Moral Protest, by James Jasper, Rhetoric and Public Affairs.

The Cold War American West, edited by Kevin J. Fernlund, Pacific Historical Review.

American Academy of Religion

National Co-chair, Religion, Peace, and War Group, 1985-1989

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

"The Meaning of Peace in Eisenhower's World," 1996