Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race, finished in October 2006, a third volume of nuclear history that follows my The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986) and Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (1995), was published by Alfred A. Knopf in October 2007. It carries the story of the superpower nuclear arms race and the dangers and challenges of the Cold War from 1949 up to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, focusing especially on the Reagan-Gorbachev decade of the 1980s. I've begun work on a fourth and last volume of nuclear history (working title: The Twilight of the Bombs) which will examine the post-Cold War years after 1991, securing the former Soviet nuclear arsenal, the first Iraq War, nuclear proliferation, North Korea, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the run-up to the second Iraq War and the prospects for nuclear abolition. With the completion of this last volume, my quartet of nuclear histories, The Making of the Nuclear Age, will comprehend the story of the introduction of a historic new technology across more than one hundred years. I've also begun a long narrative fiction for which I've been making notes for more than twenty years. Projected to extend to three parts or volumes, it's called Lessons. The first part, Commonplace, will be a comedy set in a time when an asteroid impacts the earth. The second part, The History of the World, will concern the rediscovery and exploration of North America 100,000 years later. The third part....ah, the third part. I'll save that for later. Image: NASA And, finally, I'm writing a play, Reykjavik, based on the historic summit meeting between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Iceland, on 11 - 12 October 1986, when the two leaders came within inches of agreeing to begin the millennial work of eliminating all nuclear weapons from the world.