| Escalation through entanglement: How the vulnerability of command-and-control systems raises the risks of an inadvertent nuclear war JM Acton International security 43 (1), 56-99, 2018 | 174 | 2018 |
| Why Fukushima was preventable JM Acton, M Hibbs Carnegie endowment for international peace, 2012 | 154 | 2012 |
| Silver Bullet? Asking the Right Questions About Conventional Prompt Global Strike JM Acton Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2013 | 145 | 2013 |
| Abolishing nuclear weapons G Perkovich Routledge, 2017 | 142 | 2017 |
| Two-dimensional viscous gravity currents flowing over a deep porous medium JM Acton, HE Huppert, MG Worster Journal of fluid mechanics 440, 359-380, 2001 | 127 | 2001 |
| Abolishing nuclear weapons: a debate G Perkovich, J Acton, C Endowment Arms Control Today 39 (3), 5, 2009 | 116 | 2009 |
| Hypersonic boost-glide weapons JM Acton Science & Global Security 23 (3), 191-219, 2015 | 94 | 2015 |
| Beyond the dirty bomb: re-thinking radiological terror JM Acton, MB Rogers, PD Zimmerman Survival 49.3, 151-168, 2023 | 77 | 2023 |
| Deterrence during disarmament: deep nuclear reductions and international security JM Acton CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2011 | 64* | 2011 |
| Reclaiming strategic stability JM Acton Strategic Stability: Contending Interpretations, 117-146, 2013 | 55 | 2013 |
| Cyber warfare & inadvertent escalation JM Acton Daedalus 149 (2), 133-149, 2020 | 44 | 2020 |
| Governance of dual-use technologies: Theory and practice ED Harris, R Rosner, JM Acton, H Lin American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2016 | 31 | 2016 |
| Is it a nuke?: Pre-launch ambiguity and inadvertent escalation JM Acton CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2020 | 30 | 2020 |
| Is China changing its position on nuclear weapons? JM Acton CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2013 | 28 | 2013 |
| the Problem with nuclear Mind reading JM Acton Survival 51 (1), 119-142, 2009 | 28 | 2009 |
| Entanglement: Russian and Chinese perspectives on non-nuclear weapons and nuclear risks J Acton Arms Control Today 47 (10), 42-42, 2017 | 26 | 2017 |
| Low Numbers: A Practical Path to Deep Nuclear Reductions JM Acton CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2011 | 26 | 2011 |
| Parsing the Iran deal G Perkovich, M Hibbs, JM Acton, T Dalton An Analysis of the Irandeal from a Nonproliferation Perspective, 2015 | 24 | 2015 |
| Russia and Strategic Conventional Weapons: Concerns and Responses JM Acton The Nonproliferation Review 22 (2), 141-154, 2015 | 24 | 2015 |
| Bombs away? Being realistic about deep nuclear reductions JM Acton The Washington Quarterly 35 (2), 37-53, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
