James M. Acton

643 total citations
25 papers, 313 citations indexed

About

James M. Acton is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, James M. Acton has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 313 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Political Science and International Relations, 3 papers in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality and 2 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in James M. Acton's work include Nuclear Issues and Defense (14 papers), Nuclear and radioactivity studies (3 papers) and European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (3 papers). James M. Acton is often cited by papers focused on Nuclear Issues and Defense (14 papers), Nuclear and radioactivity studies (3 papers) and European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies (3 papers). James M. Acton collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Russia. James M. Acton's co-authors include Herbert E. Huppert, M. Grae Worster, Peter D. Zimmerman, M. Brooke Rogers, George Perkovich, Steven E. Miller, Stephen Blank, Andrew Ryder, Jennifer H. Acton and N. J. Lambert and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Fluid Mechanics, International Security and Daedalus.

In The Last Decade

James M. Acton

22 papers receiving 286 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James M. Acton United States	8	121	53	44	43	35	25	313
Alexander Glaser United States	14	68 0.6×	91 1.7×	15 0.3×	32 0.7×	174 5.0×	64	511
Steven Fisher United States	6	33 0.3×	95 1.8×	17 0.4×	22 0.5×	52 1.5×	12	292
Thomas Wright United States	11	153 1.3×	121 2.3×	9 0.2×	32 0.7×	40 1.1×	38	465
W. C. Jones United States	12	24 0.2×	25 0.5×	16 0.4×	10 0.2×	57 1.6×	37	353
W. Häfele Austria	11	9 0.1×	24 0.5×	31 0.7×	12 0.3×	28 0.8×	41	298
Zahir Ali Pakistan	10	12 0.1×	10 0.2×	56 1.3×	10 0.2×	11 0.3×	22	314
Thomas B. Cochran United States	12	96 0.8×	37 0.7×	4 0.1×	5 0.1×	31 0.9×	40	351
John W. Head United States	8	34 0.3×	26 0.5×	2 0.0×	5 0.1×	15 0.4×	73	316
James W. Watts United States	16	19 0.2×	99 1.9×	98 2.2×	206 4.8×	4 0.1×	77	911
David O’Brien Australia	11	11 0.1×	34 0.6×	32 0.7×	146 3.4×	107 3.1×	28	397

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Acton, James M.. (2024). The survivability of nuclear command-and-control capabilities. Journal of Strategic Studies. 48(2). 407–464.

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Acton, James M.. (2020). Cyber Warfare & Inadvertent Escalation. Daedalus. 149(2). 133–149. 12 indexed citations

3.

Acton, James M.. (2018). Escalation through Entanglement: How the Vulnerability of Command-and-Control Systems Raises the Risks of an Inadvertent Nuclear War. International Security. 43(1). 56–99. 59 indexed citations

4.

Warner, Michael, Ben Buchanan, David E. Sanger, et al.. (2017). Understanding Cyber Conflict: Fourteen Analogies. Georgetown University Press eBooks. 19 indexed citations

5.

Perkovich, George & James M. Acton. (2017). Abolishing Nuclear Weapons. 3 indexed citations

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Acton, Thomas, Jennifer H. Acton, James M. Acton, Sarah Cemlyn, & Andrew Ryder. (2016). Why we need to up our Numbers Game: A non-parametric approach to the methodology and politics of the demography of Roma, Gypsy, Traveller and other ethnicpopulations. 4 indexed citations

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Acton, James M.. (2015). Russia and Strategic Conventional Weapons:. The Nonproliferation Review. 22(2). 141–154. 4 indexed citations

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Acton, James M.. (2015). Wagging the Plutonium Dog: Japanese Domestic Politics and Its International Security Implications. 4 indexed citations

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Acton, James M.. (2015). Hypersonic Boost-Glide Weapons. Science and Global Security. 23(3). 191–219. 38 indexed citations

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Lamb, Christopher, James M. Acton, Dean A. Wilkening, et al.. (2014). Challenges in U.S. National Security Policy: A Festschrift Honoring Edward L. (Ted) Warner.

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Acton, James M.. (2014). Deterrence During Disarmament: Deep Nuclear Reductions and International Security. Virtual Defense Library (Ministerio de Defensa). 2 indexed citations

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Acton, James M., et al.. (2012). Why Fukushima Was Preventable. 23 indexed citations

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Acton, James M.. (2011). Low Numbers: A Practical Path to Deep Nuclear Reductions. 2 indexed citations

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Sagan, Scott D., et al.. (2010). Shared Responsibilities for Nuclear Disarmament: A Global Debate. 4 indexed citations

15.

Acton, James M.. (2010). Chapter One: Central deterrence. 50(417). 25–38. 1 indexed citations

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Acton, James M.. (2009). The Myth of Proliferation-Resistant Technology. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 65(6). 49–59. 3 indexed citations

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Perkovich, George & James M. Acton. (2008). Chapter One: Establishing Political Conditions to Enhance the Feasibility of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons. The Adelphi Papers. 48(396). 15–40. 1 indexed citations

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Perkovich, George & James M. Acton. (2008). Chapter Three: Managing the Nuclear Industry in a World without Nuclear Weapons. The Adelphi Papers. 48(396). 69–82. 1 indexed citations

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Acton, James M., M. Brooke Rogers, & Peter D. Zimmerman. (2007). Beyond the Dirty Bomb: Re-thinking Radiological Terror. Survival. 49(3). 151–168. 21 indexed citations

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Acton, James M., et al.. (1982). System design of heat pump installations. International Journal of Ambient Energy. 3(1). 47–52. 1 indexed citations

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