The U.S. Nuclear Arsenal: A History of Weapons and Delivery Systems since 1945
Mr. Polmar is the author of Strategic Weapons: An Introduction (1975), which, in several printings, was used as a text for at U.S. military academies and several universities.  Nuclear weapons are also discussed in his several editions of Guide to the Soviet Navy and Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet. They have also been the subject of several of his articles in the Naval Institute Proceedings and other professional journals.He served on the advisory boards for several of the nuclear weapons studies produced by the Natural Resources Defense Council, and has lectured on nuclear weapons development at the Department of Energy and the Soviet Institute of U.S. Studies (Moscow). Mr. Polmar served on the Secretary of the Navy's Research Advisory Committee (NRAC) for almost ten years and in 2007 was named chairman of the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Advisory Committee