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Top Secret report, dated July 28, 1948, titled "U.S. Military Courses of Action with Respect to the Situation in Berlin," from the U.S. Secretary of Defense to the National Security Council. From the President's Secretary's Files.
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"Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798 - 1993," by Ellen C. Collier, Specialist in U.S. Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division, Washington DC: Congressional Research Service -- Library of Congress -- October 7, 1993
91144: Nuclear Weapons in the Former Soviet Union: Location, Command, and Control
The demise of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the newly independent states raised concerns about the control of Soviet nuclear weapons. This issue brief outlines the location and command and control systems for Soviet nuclear weapons, reviews the debate over changes in their location and control systems, and examines measures, including U.S. technical assistance, that might enhance their security. Before the end of 1991, the vast majority of Soviet nuclear weapons were deployed or stored in Russia. Strategic weapons in non-Russian republics are supposed to be eliminated under the Lisbon Protocol to START I.
WORLDWIDE EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR WAR:
Much research has been devoted to the effects of nuclear weapons. But studies have been concerned for the most part with those immediate consequences which would be suffered by a country that was the direct target of nuclear attack. Relatively few studies have examined the worldwide, long term effects.
Leo Szilard, Interview: President Truman Did Not Understand
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International Law - Bombing of Civilians - At the beginning of World War II, the bombing of civilians was regarded as a barbaric act. As the war continued, however, all sides abandoned previous restraints. But international law has always distinguished between civilians and combatants. Legal context to the decision, from a variety of international treaties and the 1996 World Court opinion. Target Committee, Los Alamos, May 10-11, 1945 - Minutes of the Target Committee, meeting in the office of J.
ATOMIC BOMB: DECISION (Hiroshima-Nagasaki)
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Nuclear Files: About Us: About the Nuclear Files
Fueled by Cold War anxiety about the threat of a surprise nuclear attack by Soviet jet-bombers, the U.S. nuclear arsenal ballooned from 841 warheads when President Eisenhower assumed office in 1953 to over 18,000 by the time he left office in 1961. Roughly 20% of these warheads were based around cities and military installations throughout the U.S. for air defense purposes. The fact that the widely publicized deployment of over 3,500 nuclear weapons explicitly intended for use directly over or near U.S. territory enjoyed broad public support is a telling measure of early Cold War fears, according to Christopher Bright , author of Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War .
Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War | Wilson Center
Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar Hope M. Harrison was featured in The Washington Post discussing the 50th anniversary of the American/Soviet showdown at Checkpoint Charlie—an incident that some feared would trigger nuclear war. “The ...
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The Nuclear Arms Race
The Nuclear Arms Race The nuclear arms race was central to the Cold War . Many feared where the Cold War was going with the belief that the more nuclear weapons you had, the more powerful you were.The Nuclear Winter One of the real fears in the later years of the Cold War was the impact of a 'Nuclear Winter' on Mankind. The whole concept of a 'Nuclear Winter' only became publicly apparent in the 1980’s and had its supporters and its detractors. However, for a short time the whole idea of a nuclear winter caught the public imagination to such an extent that the BBC produced a television programme based around a nuclear attack on the city of Sheffield and what happened to the area around the city once a nuclear winter had set in. By 1985, the total explosive power of all the nuclear weapons held by countries was estimated to be between 12,000 and 20,000 megatons. The superpowers of the USA and the USSR kept their actual nuclear strength secret but various bodies such as the International Institute for Strategic Studies concluded that the world’s stockpile of nuclear bombs was in the range of 12k to 20k megatons.