Index - Previous Postings
Algeria
The Algerian Nuclear Problem, 1991: Controversy over the Es Salam Nuclear Reactor
China
China May Have Helped Pakistan Nuclear Weapons Design, Newly Declassified Intelligence Indicates
China's First Nuclear Test 1964 -- 50th Anniversary
The Chinese Nuclear Weapons Program
The United States and the Chinese Nuclear Program, 1960-1964
U.S. Intelligence on Russian and Chinese Nuclear Testing Activities, 1990-2000
Cold War Crises
First Strike Options and the Berlin Crisis, 1961
New Kissinger Telcons from the October War
The 1983 War Scare Declassified and For Real
The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60: Briefing NATO Allies
The October War and U.S. Policy
The Submarines of October: U.S. and Soviet Naval Encounters During the Cuban Missile Crisis
Command and Control and Warning
"Nobody Wins a Nuclear War" But "Success" is Possible
Cold War Air Defense Relied on Widespread Dispersal of Nuclear Weapons, Documents Show
Eisenhower and Nuclear Predelegation
Every Nuclear-Tipped Missile is an "Accident Waiting to Happen"
Newly Declassified Documents on Advance Presidential Authorization of Nuclear Weapons Use
The Air Force versus Hollywood
The Presidential Nuclear "Football" From Eisenhower to George W. Bush
U.S. Presidents Predelegated Nuclear Weapons Release Authority to Military Commanders
France
The French Bomb, with Secret U.S. Help
U.S. Intelligence and the French Nuclear Weapons Program
Germany
NATO's Original Purpose: Double Containment of the Soviet Union and "Resurgent" Germany
Preoccupations with West Germany’s Nuclear Weapons Potential Shaped Kennedy-Era Diplomacy
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the German Nuclear Question Part II, 1965-1969
Government Motion Pictures and Documentaries
"Nobody Wins a Nuclear War" But "Success" is Possible
Newly Released Sandia Labs Film Presents Story of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Safety Effort
The Air Force versus Hollywood
U.S. Strategic Nuclear Policy: A Video History, 1945-2004
Iceland
U.S. Government Debated Secret Nuclear Deployments in Iceland
India
India and Pakistan -- On the Nuclear Threshold
The Nixon Administration and the Indian Nuclear Program, 1972-1974
The U.S., Canada, and the Indian Nuclear Program, 1968-1974
U.S. Intelligence and the Indian Bomb
Iran
Iran’s Nuclear Program – Then and Now
The Iranian Nuclear Program, 1974-1978
Israel
Duplicity and Self-Deception: Israel, the United States, and the Dimona Inspections, 1964-65
In 1974 Estimate, CIA Found that Israel Already Had a Nuclear Stockpile
Israel Crosses the Threshold II
The Israel-Argentina Yellowcake Connection
The NUMEC Affair: Did Highly Enriched Uranium from the U.S. Aid Israel's Nuclear Weapons Program?
The U.S. Discovery of Israel's Secret Nuclear Project
Italy
The Jupiter Missiles and the Endgame of the Cuban Missile Crisis, 60 Years Ago
Japan
Japan Plutonium Overhang Origins and Dangers Debated by U.S. Officials
New Documents on Okinawa Reversion
Nuclear Noh Drama: Tokyo, Washington and the Case of the Missing Nuclear Agreements
Nuclear Weapons on Okinawa Declassified December 2015, Photos Available Since 1990
U.S. Nuclear Weapons and Okinawa
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Deployments in Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima
U.S.-Japan Negotiations over Reprocessing and Plutonium Use: Opening Moves, 1981-1982
Manhattan Project and the First Atomic Bombings
The First Atomic Explosion, 16 July 1945
78th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings: Revisiting the Record
National Security Policy
"Prevent the Reemergence of a New Rival": The Making of the Cheney Regional Defense Strategy
Did Truman Meet with NATO Foreign Ministers on 3 April 1949? A Cold War Mystery
Nuclear Alerts and Exercises
Crises, Alerts, and DEFCONS, 1961-1976 – Part II
Ivory Item: Carter First U.S. President to Participate in Nuclear Drill
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Madman Strategy during Vietnam War
The 1983 War Scare Declassified and For Real
Nuclear Deployments and Delivery Systems
Atomic Energy Act Prevents Declassification of Site of 1958 “Broken Arrow” Nuclear Weapons Accident
Cold War Air Defense Relied on Widespread Dispersal of Nuclear Weapons, Documents Show
How Many and Where Were the Nukes?
How Much is Enough? Part I. The U.S. Navy and "Finite Deterrence"
The U.S. Nuclear Presence in Western Europe, 1954-1962, Part I
The U.S. Nuclear Presence in Western Europe, 1954-1962, Part II
Thirtieth Anniversary of NATO's Dual-Track Decision
U.S. Government Debated Secret Nuclear Deployments in Iceland
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Deployments in Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima
US Nuclear Weapons in the Netherlands: A First Appraisal
Unilateral U.S. nuclear pullback in 1991 matched by rapid Soviet cuts
United States Secretly Deployed Nuclear Bombs In 27 Countries and Territories During the Cold War
Nuclear Intelligence
China May Have Helped Pakistan Nuclear Weapons Design, Newly Declassified Intelligence Indicates
Declassified 1964 National Intelligence Estimate Predicts India's Bomb But Not Israel's
India and Pakistan -- On the Nuclear Threshold
INR’s Nuclear Watch, 1957-1967
Intelligence Center Tracks Missile Launches Worldwide 24/7
National Intelligence Estimates of the Nuclear Proliferation Problem
Project Azorian: The CIA's Declassified History of the Glomar Explorer
Proliferation Watch: U.S. Intelligence Assessments of Potential Nuclear Powers, 1977-2001
Studies by Once Top Secret Government Entity Portrayed Terrible Costs of Nuclear War
The Chinese Nuclear Weapons Program
The Nuclear Emergency Search Team, 1974-1996
The U.S. Atomic Energy Detection System (AEDS)
The United States and the Chinese Nuclear Program, 1960-1964
The Vela Incident: Nuclear Test or Meteorite?
U.S. Intelligence and the French Nuclear Weapons Program
U.S. Intelligence and the Indian Bomb
U.S. Intelligence and the South African Bomb
U.S. Intelligence on Russian and Chinese Nuclear Testing Activities, 1990-2000
U.S. Nuclear Detection and Counterterrorism, 1998-2009
Nuclear Secrecy
International Atomic Energy Agency Lacks Transparency, Observers and Researchers Say
Nuclear Weapons on Okinawa Declassified December 2015, Photos Available Since 1990
Recent Nuclear Declassifications and Denials: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Secrecy Court of Last Resort
Why is "Poodle Blanket" Classified? Still More Dubious Secrets at the Pentagon
Nuclear Threats and Nuclear Use
Nuclear Weapons, the Vietnam War, and the "Nuclear Taboo"
The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II
U.S. Presidents and the Nuclear Taboo
Nuclear Weapons Accidents and Safety
Every Nuclear-Tipped Missile is an "Accident Waiting to Happen"
New Details on the 1961 Goldsboro Accident
Newly Released Sandia Labs Film Presents Story of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Safety Effort
Nuclear Weapons and the Law of War
Nuclear Weapons Technology
Early Atomic Energy Commission Studies Show Concern over Gas Centrifuge Proliferation risk
New Memoir by Participant in U.S. H-Bomb Program Sheds Light on the Making of the First Test Device
The Gas Centrifuge Secret: Origins of a U.S. Policy of Nuclear Denial, 1954-1960
Nuclear Weapons Tests
60th Anniversary of Castle BRAVO Nuclear Test, the Worst Nuclear Test in U.S. History
70th Anniversary of Operation Crossroads Atomic Tests in Bikini Atoll, July 1946
Pakistan
India and Pakistan -- On the Nuclear Threshold
New Documents Spotlight Reagan-era Tensions over Pakistani Nuclear Program
Pakistan's Illegal Nuclear Procurement Exposed in 1987
Pakistan’s Nuclear Program Posed “Acute Dilemma” for U.S. Policy
The U.S. and the Pakistani Bomb, 1984-1985: General Zia, President Reagan, and Seymour Hersh
The United States and Pakistan's Quest for the Bomb
Russia and Former Soviet Union
CIA Debriefed Soviet H-Bomb Eye-Witness in 1957
Detection of the First Soviet Nuclear Test, September 1949
U.S. Intelligence and the Detection of the First Soviet Nuclear Test, September 1949
U.S. Intelligence on Russian and Chinese Nuclear Testing Activities, 1990-2000
South Africa
U.S. Intelligence and the South African Bomb
Taiwan
New Archival Evidence on Taiwanese "Nuclear Intentions", 1966-1976
U.S. Opposed Taiwanese Bomb during 1970s
Turkey
Nuclear Weapons and Turkey Since 1959
The Jupiter Missiles and the Endgame of the Cuban Missile Crisis, 60 Years Ago
Two Koreas
The First Nukes on the Korean Peninsula
North Korea and Nuclear Weapons
Stopping Korea from Going Nuclear, Part I
Stopping Korea from Going Nuclear, Part II
U.S. Arms Control and Nuclear Proliferation Concerns
"Atoms for Peace" Was Actually a “Threat to Peace” – AEC Official in 1955
"The Impulse towards a Safer World"
"We can't go on the way we are"
1960s "Nth Country Experiment" Foreshadows Today's Concerns Over the Ease of Nuclear Proliferation
60th Anniversary of Irish Resolution: A Forerunner of the NPT
Early Atomic Energy Commission Studies Show Concern over Gas Centrifuge Proliferation risk
In 1974 Estimate, CIA Found that Israel Already Had a Nuclear Stockpile
Missile Defense 30 Years Ago: Deja Vu All Over Again?
The Making of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1958-1963
The Secret History of the ABM Treaty, 1969-1972
The Test Ban Challenge: Nuclear Nonproliferation and the Quest for a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
United Kingdom
The British Bomb and the United States - Part One
The British Bomb and the United States - Part Two
War Plans and Planning
"It Is Certain There Will be Many Firestorms" - New Evidence on the Origins of Overkill
"To Have the Only Option That of Killing 80 Million People is the Height of Immorality"
First Strike Options and the Berlin Crisis, September 1961
Jimmy Carter's Controversial Nuclear Targeting Directive PD-59 Declassified
More Evidence on SIOP-62 and the Origins of Overkill
New Evidence on the Origins of Overkill
New State Department History Details Nuclear Targeting and Continuity of Government, 1977-1980
Reagan's Nuclear War Briefing Declassified
Studies by Once Top Secret Government Entity Portrayed Terrible Costs of Nuclear War
U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time
Algeria
China
Cold War Crises
Command and Control and Warning
France
Germany
Government Motion Pictures and Documentaries
Iceland
India
Iran
Israel
Italy
Japan
Manhattan Project and the First Atomic Bombings
National Security Policy
Nuclear Alerts and Exercises
Nuclear Deployments and Delivery Systems
Nuclear Intelligence
Nuclear Secrecy
Nuclear Threats and Nuclear Use
Nuclear Weapons Accidents and Safety
Nuclear Weapons Technology
Nuclear Weapons Tests
Pakistan
Russia and Former Soviet Union
South Africa
Taiwan
Turkey
Two Koreas
U.S. Arms Control and Nuclear Proliferation Concerns
United Kindom
War Plans and Planning