Background On June 3, 1980, U.S. Command posts received a warning that the Soviet Union had launched a nuclear strike. It is believed that multiple launch crews for Minuteman missiles were given launch warnings, and bomber crews began manning ...
Posts by Category: Nuclear Weapons
1968 Thule Air Base B-52 Crash with 4 Hydrogen Bombs On Board
Background On 21 January 1968, an aircraft accident involving a United States Air Force (USAF) B-52 bomber occurred near Thule Air Base in the Danish territory of Greenland. The aircraft was carrying four hydrogen bombs on a Cold ...
Reducing the United States Nuclear Arsenal, September 28, 1991
Background The following document was created in 1991 regarding the reduction of the nuclear weapons arsenal. I requested an MDR as the last review was from a 2013 case, however, the actual review was done in 2016. So, they would not conduct ...
A Report Card on the Department of Energy’s Nonproliferation Programs with Russia, dated January 10, 2001 – by Howard Baker, Lloyd Cutler
Background Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, we have witnessed the dissolution of an empire having over 40,000 nuclear weapons, over a thousand metric tons of nuclear materials, vast quantities of chemical and biological weapons ...
Nuclear Weapon Characteristics Handbook, September 1990
Background The Nuclear Weapon Characteristics Handbook, dated September 1990, was first requested in June of 2009, and it was not until February of 2017 that it was finally released. Nearly EIGHT years passed from the point of requesting, to ...
