good books on nuclear war/weaponry? i have, i think, a pretty

I agree that it is and interesting subject but I don't know many books to rec you. You might try The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes.

These are more academic works but I'd definitely suggest Nuclear Rites by Hugh Gusterson (its an ethnography of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) and almost all of Gabrielle Hecht's books (she's a historian and all of her work is great). There's one other anthropologist who does some great work on nuclear weapons-- if i remember his name, I'll post it.