nuclear

Nuclear Notes Number 1 – The Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP), June 1974

Background NUMBER ONE IN A SERIES OF INFORMATION PAPERS ON TOPICS ASSOCIATED WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS, PRINCIPALLY DESIGNED FOR USE BY…

December 1, 2020

Manhattan District History, Written Circa Late 1940s

Background General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Engineer District, in late 1944 commissioned a multi-volume history of the Manhattan…

August 28, 2020

Superviolence: The Civil Threat of Mass Destruction Weapons, 1972

Background Superviolence is defined as the illegitimate use of nuclear, chemical, or biological mass destruction devices by domestic agents for…

June 26, 2020

Possible Resumption of Negotiations for US Reactor, Iran, February 1976

Background This document was first requested, but fully denied, in ISCAP appeal number 2009-054-doc3. It was a CIA document, and…

March 25, 2020

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.…

February 12, 2020