Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy
Nuclear Weapons
Chronological
Table of Nuclear Weapons
Robert
S. Norris, William M. Arkin & William Burr, "Where They Were,"
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 1999, Vol. 55, No.
6, pp. 26-35
The
Sixteen Known Nuclear Crises of the Cold War, 1946-1985 by
David R. Morgan, National President, Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, Vancouver,
Canada
06 March 1996
NHK, "Nuclear Arms and the
Human Race"
Nuclear Files Archive
International Law on the
Bombimg of Civilians
Target Committee, Los
Alamos, May 10-11, 1945
Memorandom for Major General L.R. Groves regarding the Summary of Target
Committee Meetings on 10 and 11 May, 1945, May 12, 1945. (5 pages)
Immediate Release: Statement by the President of the United States discussing
atomic capability. (3 pages)
The Franck Report, June 11, 1945
Joint Chief of Staff knowledge of the Atom bomb and Chronology regarding Truman
from 6/45 - 7/24/45. (5 pages)
Truman's diary entries from the President's Secretary's file, dates from July
17,1945 - July 30, 1945. (9 pages)
Truman's
diary entries on Potsdam from the President's Secretary's file, July 16, 1945. (10 pages)
Truman Tells Stalin, July
24, 1945
Memorandom for General Arnold regarding the Groves Project, July 24, 1945. (2
pages)
Truman's Diary, July 25,
1945
Scientific Panel, June
16, 1945
Bard Memorandum, June 27,
1945
Setting the Test Date,
July 2, 1945
Szilard Petition, First
Version, July 3, 1945
Petition cover letter,
July 4, 1945
Groves Seeks Evidence,
July 4, 1945
Oak Ridge petition, July
13, 1945
Oak Ridge petition,
mid-July 1945
Trinity Test, July 16,
1945 - Radiation Monitoring
Trinity Test, July 16,
1945 - Eyewitness Accounts
Szilard Petition, July 17, 1945
Official Bombing Order, July
25, 1945
Groves/Oppenheimer
transcript, August 6, 1945
Chronology
regarding Truman and the a-bomb from 8/2/45 - 8/10/45 with Smyth report on atomic bomb
released, August 6, 1951. (2 pages)
Leo Szilard, Interview:
President Truman Did Not Understand
Charles G. Bolte,
"Post-Atomic National Defense," The Nation,
September 29, 1945
Statement of Recommendations on Release of Atomic Bomb Project Information,
Febuary 4, 1946. (4 pages)
Vice
Admiral Blandy's Press Conference pertaining to Joint Army-Navy task force number
one Operation Crossroads -- Release No. 46, May 13, 1946. (4 pages)
General Findings
and Recommendations Approved by the Atomic Energy Commission and Incorporated
in its First Report to the Security Council, December 31, 1946
Second Report
of the Atomic Energy Commission to the Security Council, September 11, 1947
(excerpt)
Third Report
of the Atomic Energy Commission to the Security Council, May 17, 1948
Reports of
Atomic Energy Commission, Resolution of the General Assembly, November 4, 1948
International
Control of Atomic Energy, Statement by the Representatives of Canada, China,
France, the United Kingdom, and the United States, October 25, 1949
Soviet Misinterpretaton
of U. S. Position on the Baruch Plan, Statement by John D. Hickerson, Assistant
Secretary for United Nations Affairs, November 11, 1949
Continuing
Effort to Reach Agreement on Atomic Energy Control, Resolution of the General
Assembly, November 23, 1949
Truman and the Atom Bomb background, [1951?]. (5 pages)
Nautilus
Institute, United States Strategic Air Command, "History of the Strategic
Air Command, 1 January 1958-30 June 1958," Historical Study No. 73, Volume
I, [1958], pp. 88-90.
Message
2840 from Copenhagen Embassy to U.S. Secretary of State, "Subject: Thule
B-52 Crash," 231330Z January 1968
Office
of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense (Atomic Energy), "History of
the Custody and Deployment of Nuclear Weapons, July 1945 through September
1977," February 1978
The
Nautilus Institute, "United States Informs Denmark Of Nuclear Weapons In
Greenland," July 1995
The US Nuclear Weapons
Cost Project
U.S.
Department of State 95/06/30 Foreign Relations, 1961-1963, Vol VII, Arms
Control/Disarmament, Office of the Historian
Department of Energy,
Historical Records Database
U.S. Department Of Energy: Human Radiation
Experiments
The Stimson Center: Eliminating
Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Early Warning
Connection
James E. Goodby,
"Dismantling the Nuclear Weapons Legacy of the Cold War," Strategic Forum.
Number 19, February 1995
09/24/96 CHRONOLOGY: THE
SEARCH FOR A COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY
"Let's
Not Talk About the Bad Things" by Paul Rogat Loeb, Technology Review, August
1995
"Keep
the Bomb" by Alex Roland, Technology Review, August 1995
"Clearing
the Debris" by Bernard Lown, Technology Review, August 1995
Radiation Effects Research Foundation
Hopes Raised and
Dashed: Carter, Brezhnev, and SALT II: An Introduction to G.M. Kornienkos Commentary
by Mark Garrison
Cold War
International History Project, The Path to Disagreement: U.S.-Soviet Communications
Leading to Vance's March 1977 Trip to Moscow
Nuclear Treaties
The U.S. Nuclear
Weapons Cost Study Project
THE PERSHING WEAPON
SYSTEM AND ITS ELIMINATION
Major International
Instruments on Disarmament and Related Issues
"Regional
Deterrence in the Future Security Environment," Philip L. Ritcheson, Journal of
Public and International Affairs, July 1996
The Effects of a
One-Megaton Nuclear Blast
The Strategic Defense Initiative,
Federation of American Scientists
"Possible
Soviet Responses to the US Strategic Defense Initiative," Interagency Intelligence
Assessment, APPROVED FOR RELEASE, CIA HISTORICAL-REVIEW PROGRAM, Secret,
NIC M 83-10017, 12 September 1983
The
Reagan Legacy: Star Wars
Nuclear Resources, Federation of American
Scientists
MILNET, Nuclear Weapons
NHK-TV, Japan, "Nuclear
Arms and the Human Race"
U.S.,
USSTRATCOM/J53/J54, "Strategic Nuclear Forces: STRATCOM's View," November
23, 1992.
US Strategic
Command, "Sun City," n.d. [1993].
"The
Dangerous Myths of START II," MICHAEL R. BOLDRICK, Parameters,
Spring 1994, pp. 78-87.
U.S.,
USSTRATCOM, "Sun City Extended," n.d. [1994].
US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency,
Texts of Treaties and Agreements
ACDA Narrative on SALT I
ACDA Narrative on SALT II
Yahoo's
News Coverage of Missile Defense Systems
Centre for Defence and International
Security Studies, Missile Threats and Responses
Hagerty, Devin
T., "Nuclear
Deterrence in South Asia: the 1990 Indo-Pakistani Crisis,"
International Security, (v20 n3), Winter 1995
Canberra
Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons: Executive Summary, August
1996
Legality
of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons (Request for Advisory Opinion by the
General Assembly of the United Nations), Advisory Opinion, The Hague, 8 July
1996.
U.S.,
USSTRATCOM, Major J. L. Hogler, USAF, "Post START II Arms Control,"
18 September 1996.
Paul Bracken,
"America's Maginot Line, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1998
Military/ Warnings
of Uncontrollable Escalation /Accidental Nuclear War
Secretary
of State Madeleine K. Albright, Article on Arms Control Leadership for Time
Magazine, November 22, 1999, U.S. Department of State
Secretary
of State Madeleine K. Albright, Statement on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty,
Davos, Switzerland, January 28, 2000, As released by the Office of the Spokesman,
U.S. Department of State
The
Honorable John D. Holum, Senior Advisor for Arms Control and International Security,
Remarks to the Foreign Policy Association, New York, New York, February 16,
2000, U.S. Department of State
Secretary
of State Madeleine K. Albright, Special Advisor to the President and Secretary
of State for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty General John Shalikashvili, Senior
Advisor for Arms Control John Holum, and Senior CTBT Coordinator Ambassador
James Goodby, Press Briefing on Normal Trade Relations with China and the Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty, Washington, D.C., March 13, 2000, As released by the Office
of the Spokesman, U.S. Department of State
Gen.
John Shalikashvili (USA Ret.), Special Advisor to the President and the Secretary
of State for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Address at the Carnegie International
Non-proliferation Conference, Washington, DC, March 16, 2000
Hans M.
Kristensen, Senior Program Officer, The Nautilus Institute, The Matrix of Deterrence:
U.S. Strategic Command Force Structure Studies, May 2001
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