Nuclear History Documents

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Document Collections 

• The Avner Cohen Collection

• Warsaw Pact Military Planning

• History of Nuclear Proliferation

  • See also NPIHP Research Update: "New Documents Show US Feared Proliferation of Nuclear Technology in 1960s" by William Burr

• Euromissiles Crisis

  • See also NPIHP Research Update: "'A mass psychotic movement washing over the country like a wave': Explaining Dutch Reservations About NATO's 1979 Dual-Track Decision" by Ruud van Dijk
  • See also NPIHP Document Reader: "The Euromissies Crisis and the End of the Cold War, 1977-1987"

• Nuclear Debate Pamphlets

  • See also NPIHP Research Update: "Whither Pax Atomica? - The Euromissiles Crisis and the Peace Movement of the early 1980s"

Nuclear Development by Country 

• Braziliian Nuclear History

  • See also NPIHP Research Update: "US Diplomatic Efforts Stalled Brazil's Nuclear Program in 1970s" by Dani K. Nedal

• Chinese Nuclear History

  • See also NPIHP Working Paper #2: "Between Aid and Restriction: Changing Soviet Policies toward China’s Nuclear Weapons Program: 1954-1960," by Shen Zhihua and Yafeng Xia

• Indian Nuclear History

  • See also NPIHP Working Paper #1: "The Elephant in the Room: The Soviet Union and India's Nuclear Program, 1967-1989," by  Balazs Szalontai
  • See also NPIHP Working Paper #3: "From the Peaceful Atom to the Peaceful Explosion," by Jayita Sarkar
  • See also NPIHP Research Update #4: "The Nixon Administration and the Indian Nuclear Program, 1972-1974," by William Burr

• North Korean Nuclear History

• Pakistani Nuclear History

  • See also NPIHP Research Update: "U.S. and British Combined to Delay Pakistani Nuclear Weapons Program in 1978-1981," by William Burr
  • See also NPIHP Research Update: "The Pervez Case, Pakistani Nuclear Procurement, and Reagan Administration Nonproliferation Policy, 1987"

• South African Nuclear History

• Soviet Nuclear History

• US-France Nuclear Relations

  • See also NPIHP Research Update: "U.S. Secret Assistance to the French Nuclear Program, 1969-1975," by William Burr