Background In the 1970s, a series of nine papers were created by the U.S. Army Nuclear and Chemical Agency. These…
Background General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Engineer District, in late 1944 commissioned a multi-volume history of the Manhattan…
Background On June 3, 1980, U.S. Command posts received a warning that the Soviet Union had launched a nuclear strike.…
Background The following document was created in 1991 regarding the reduction of the nuclear weapons arsenal. I requested an MDR…
Background Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, we have witnessed the dissolution of an empire having over 40,000 nuclear…
Background The Nuclear Weapon Characteristics Handbook, dated September 1990, was first requested in June of 2009, and it was not…
Background The Tybee Island B-47 crash was an incident on February 5, 1958, in which the United States Air Force…
Background This report contains an assessment of the state-of-the-art of modeling and analysis for civil preparedness and management of the…
Background A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a…
Background NNSA receives its authority for the responsibility for all weapon and weapon-related functions from 50 USC 2402, Chapter 41.…