| The limits of safety: Organizations, accidents, and nuclear weapons SD Sagan Princeton University Press, 1993 | 2208 | 1993 |
| Why do states build nuclear weapons?: Three models in search of a bomb SD Sagan International security 21 (3), 54-86, 1996 | 1585 | 1996 |
| The spread of nuclear weapons: a debate renewed: with new sections on India and Pakistan, terrorism, and missile defense SD Sagan, KN Waltz (No Title), 2003 | 1227 | 2003 |
| The limits of coercive diplomacy AL George, WE Simons, DK Hall, BW Jentleson, SD Sagan, R Herrmann, ... Westview Press, 1994 | 769 | 1994 |
| The perils of proliferation: Organization theory, deterrence theory, and the spread of nuclear weapons SD Sagan International Security 18 (4), 66-107, 1994 | 385 | 1994 |
| The causes of nuclear weapons proliferation SD Sagan Annual Review of Political Science 14, 225-244, 2011 | 279 | 2011 |
| Moving targets: Nuclear strategy and national security SD Sagan Princeton University Press, 1990 | 264 | 1990 |
| Atomic aversion: Experimental evidence on taboos, traditions, and the non-use of nuclear weapons DG Press, SD Sagan, BA Valentino American Political Science Review 107 (1), 188-206, 2013 | 242 | 2013 |
| The spread of nuclear weapons: an enduring debate: with new chapters on Iran, Iraq, and North Korea, and on the prospects for global nuclear disarmament SD Sagan, KN Waltz WW Norton, 2013 | 224 | 2013 |
| 1914 Revisited: Allies, Offense, and Instability SD Sagan International Security 11 (2), 151-175, 1986 | 222 | 1986 |
| Nuclear alerts and crisis management SD Sagan International Security 9 (4), 99-139, 1985 | 202 | 1985 |
| Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran: What Americans really think about using nuclear weapons and killing noncombatants SD Sagan, BA Valentino International Security 42 (1), 41-79, 2017 | 193 | 2017 |
| The Problem of Redundancy Problem: Why More Nuclear Security Forces May Produce Less Nuclear Security† SD Sagan Risk Analysis: An International Journal 24 (4), 935-946, 2004 | 189 | 2004 |
| Living with nuclear weapons A Carnesale Harvard University Press, 1983 | 186 | 1983 |
| The origins of the Pacific war SD Sagan The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 18 (4), 893-922, 1988 | 179 | 1988 |
| The perils of predicting proliferation AH Montgomery, SD Sagan Journal of Conflict Resolution 53 (2), 302-328, 2009 | 164 | 2009 |
| Toward a Political Theory of Organizational Reliabilitv J SD Sagan | 152 | 1994 |
| The commitment trap: why the United States should not use nuclear threats to deter biological and chemical weapons attacks SD Sagan International Security 24 (4), 85-115, 2000 | 148 | 2000 |
| How to keep the bomb from Iran SD Sagan Foreign Aff. 85, 45, 2006 | 142 | 2006 |
| The madman nuclear alert: Secrecy, signaling, and safety in October 1969 SD Sagan, J Suri International Security 27 (4), 150-183, 2003 | 133 | 2003 |
