Background This document was first released in 2003, though heavily redacted. In February of 2018, I requested a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR) of the record, in hopes it would be further declassified. It was not, in fact, the ...
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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 ...
Gorbachev’s Response to the US Nuclear Initiative: Implications for Soviet Strategic Offensive Forces, 31 October 1991
Background Document Excerpt: “In his speech of 5 October, President Gorbachev announced numerous unilateral Soviet measures relating to strategic offensive arms in response to President Bush’s unilateral initiatives. Gorbachev ...
Memorandum, William T. Pendley to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Subject: North Korea Nuclear Issue – Where are We Now?, dated October 27, 1992
Background This memo was issued to provide the status of the “North Korea Nuclear Issue” back in 1992. I filed an MDR request on the record in February of 2018, as the original that I saw was heavily redacted. It appears it was ...
Recovering from a Nuclear Incident – Lessons Learned from Chernobyl
Background This series of 12 video segments examines some of the lessons learned from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident. The segments include the unique perspective of two survivors of Chernobyl. The videos offer information about ...
