* _Horsemen of Terror: The Truth about Al-Qaeda, Bin Laden and the West's Crusade_ (Random House, 2004)
* _The Plot to Kill bin Laden: How the CIA and Navy SEALs Failed and the World Paid the Price_ (St. Martin's Press, 2005)
* _Secrecy and Power: The Dilemmas of Nuclear Power_ (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
* _An Insider's Guide to the UN_ (St. Martin's Press, 2008)
* _The Next Pandemic: Global Threats to National Security_ (St. Martin's Press, 2010)
* _The Five Biggest Ideas: How They Changed Our World_ (Oxford University Press, 2012)
* _Open Sources and Nuclear Nonproliferation: Lessons from the Internet Age_ (Stanford University Press, 2014)
* _The Future of Arms Control: Can We Build a Nonproliferation Consensus?_ (Routledge, 2015)
* _The Power of Open Data: Lessons from the Open Data Revolution_ (Stanford University Press, 2016)
* _Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Precedent_ (Oxford University Press, 2018)
* _Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service_ (St. Martin's Press, 2021)
Articles and reports
* "The Future of Nuclear Deterrence: A Nuclear-Weapons-Free World?" _International Security_, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Winter 2009/10), pp. 49-81.
* "The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty at 40: A Time for Renewal," _Foreign Affairs_, Vol. 91, No. 4 (July/August 2012), pp. 124-137.
* "Open Data and the Future of Nonproliferation," _The Nonproliferation Review_, Vol. 21, No. 2 (2014), pp. 217-236.
* "The Future of Arms Control: A Nonproliferation Consensus?" _Arms Control Today_, Vol. 45, No. 10 (October 2015), pp. 10-15.
* "The Power of Open Data: Lessons from the Open Data Revolution," _Foreign Affairs_, Vol. 95, No. 3 (May/June 2016), pp. 70-81.
* "Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Precedent," _International Affairs_, Vol. 94, No. 2 (2018), pp. 275-294.
* "Zero Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Secret Service," _The New Republic_, Vol. 244, No. 11 (June 2021), pp. 24-29.