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Ought we be concerned about or even obsessed by nuclear danger in the post-Cold War world? John Mueller insists that we should calm down. He offers three principal arguments in Atomic obsession for the proposition that nuclear danger is far overhyped in our present environment. First, he contends that nuclear weapons played a minor or even irrelevant role in the unfolding of the Cold War; second, he argues that relatively few states want to obtain nuclear weapons and that the proliferation of them to those that do is not particularly dangerous; third, and of greatest interest to readers of this journal, he maintains that although the acquisition of nuclear weapons by sub-national terrorist groups poses an obvious danger, the chances of such groups actually getting a usable bomb are ‘vanishingly small’.