The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project

Related Nuclear Weapons Sites
(Alphabetical Listing)
updated July 1, 2005

Abandoned Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) silos:
- "The Atom's Family," Airman, July 1997
- Titan II Missile Museum (Green Valley, Arizona)
  - A Visit to the Titan II Missile Museum
- 20th Century Castles (missile bases and silos and other underground Cold War real estate)
The Acronym Institute
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability
Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
Anno Atomi: Growing Up with the Atom
"A Primer on Fissile Materials and Nuclear Weapon Design" (from Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy: Containing the Threat of Loose Russian Nuclear Weapons and Fissile Material by Graham T. Allison, Owen Cote, Jr., Richard A. Falkenrath, and Steven E. Miller [MIT Press, 1996])
Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
Arms Control Treaties and Agreements
Arms Control Association
- Arms Control Today
The Atomic Duty of Pvt. Bill Bires
Atomic Archive
Atomic Bomb Cinema
Atomic Veterans History Project
B61-11 (earth penetrating nuclear gravity bomb) — Analysis, Testimony and News:
- "B61-11 Concerns and Background," February 10, 1997 (a detailed report by the Los Alamos Study Group on the latest nuclear weapon to enter the U.S. arsenal)
- "Bunker-Busting Bomb Prompts U.S. Discord: Upgraded Nuclear Capability May Prompt Russian Concern," Defense News, February 24-March 2, 1997
- Excerpt from Testimony of General Eugene Habiger, Commander in Chief, U.S. Strategic Command, before the Senate Armed Services Committee, March 13, 1997
- "B-2 Bombers Ready for Missions," Associated Press, March 31, 1997
- "U.S. Nuclear Gravity Bomb," Los Angeles Times, April 14, 1997
- "New Bomb, No Mission," by Greg Mello, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 1997
- "Hagengruber: B61-11 a Modification, Not a New Weapon," Sandia LabNews August 1, 1997
- "B-2 Successfully Drops Improved Bunker Buster Bomb," Air Force News Service, March 26, 1998
The Bellona Foundation
Bikini Atoll
British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
- Nuclear and WMD
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- "Nuclear Notebook," -- "widely regarded as the most accurate source of information on nuclear weapons and weapons facilities available to the public"
Bureau of Atomic Tourism
Canadian Arctic Resources Committee
- "Military Activity and Environmental Security: The Case of Radioactivity in the Arctic," Northern Perspectives, Winter 1993-1994
Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Non-Proliferation Project News and Resources
Center for Arms Control, Energy, and Environmental Studies, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Centre for Defence & International Security Studies (CDISS)
Center for Defense Information (CDI)
- U.S. Nuclear Weapons Accidents
Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University
Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute for International Studies
Center for Science and International Affairs, International Security Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Managing the Atom Project
Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments
Center for Strategic & International Studies
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
- Center for the Study of Intelligence
- Citizen Alert
- City of Hiroshima, Japan
- Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
  - The Last Fifteen Minutes: Ballistic Missile Defense in Perspective (1996)
  - Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Site
- "Cold War" (on-line site for CNN's 24 part documentary—September 27, 1998 to April 4, 1999)
  - Interview transcripts (by episode) for "Cold War"
  - Key original documents (by episode) for "Cold War"
- Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
- Cold War Museum
- Cold War Science & Technology Studies Program, Carnegie Mellon University
- Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (CCNS)
- CONELRAD: All Things Atomic
- Congressional Budget Office
  - "Estimated Budgetary Impacts of Alternative Levels of Strategic Forces," March 18, 1998
- Congressional Office of Technology Assessment
- Council for a Livable World
- Debate and discussion of proposals to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons:
  - "Questioning Nuclear Arms," A debate between General Charles Horner, USAF (Ret.), and former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS), December 4, 1996
  - "Destroying Nukes Will Save More Than Lives," by David M. North, Aviation Week & Space Technology, December 9, 1996
  - "It's Dangerous to Disarm," by Richard N. Haass, The New York Times, December 11, 1996
  - "Leave Nuclear Disarmament to the Generals," letters to the editor responding to Richard N. Haass' December 11 op-ed, The New York Times, December 16, 1996
  - "Former Cold Warrior Has a New Mission: Nuclear Cuts," The New York Times, January 8, 1997
  - "No Nukes? Not Yet," The Wall Street Journal, March 4, 1997
  - "Prepared Remarks to the Olof Palme International Center," by Vice Admiral John J. Shanahan, USN (Ret.), March 6, 1997
  - "Which Nuke Policy?", The Washington Times, March 24, 1997
  - "The Case in Favor of US Nuclear Weapons," Parameters, Spring 1997
  - "Military Can Meet Threat With 2,000 Nukes, But Not Less, Official Says," Inside the Air Force, March 28, 1997
  - "Mutually Assured Destruction Revisited: Strategic Doctrine in Question," Airpower Journal, Winter 1997
  - "The Risks of Nuclear Deterrence: From Superpowers to Rogue Leaders," an address by General George Lee Butler at the National Press Club, February 2, 1998
  - Report of the Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (August 1996)
  - The Future of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy, Committee on International Security and Arms Control, National Academy of Sciences (June 1997)
- Declassified Intelligence Satellite Photographs, available from the U.S. Geological Survey Global Land Information System
- Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
- Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
  - Government Secrecy Project
  - Intelligence Reform Project
    - Selected CORONA Satellite Reconnaissance Photographs
  - Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Project
    - Nuclear Resources
    - Nuclear Forces Guide
  - Space Policy Project
  - Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program (FUSRAP)
  - Government Accountability Office
  - Government Accountability Project
  - Hanford Health Information Network
  - The Henry L. Stimson Center
  - The High Energy Weapons Archive
    - U.S. Nuclear Weapons Enduring Stockpile
  - Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER)
    - Risky Relapse Into Reprocessing: Environmental and Non-Proliferation Consequences of the Department of Energy's Spent Fuel Management Program (January 1996)
    - The Nuclear Safety Smokescreen: Warhead Safety and Reliability and the Science Based Stockpile Stewardship Program (May 1996)
    - Containing the Cold War Mess: Restructuring the Environmental Management of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex (October 1997)
    - Dangerous Thermonuclear Quest: The Potential of Explosive Fusion Research for the Development of Pure Fusion Weapons (July 1998)
  - Institute for Science and International Security
  - International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
  - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
  - Jayne Loader's Public Shelter, a CD-ROM featuring scenes from the 1982 documentary "Atomic Cafe"
  - The Medical Implications of Nuclear War, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences (1986)
    - Chapter 25 — "Sources of Human Instability in the Handling of Nuclear Weapons"
  - National Air and Space Museum
  - National Atomic Museum
    - National Atomic Museum Store
  - National Cancer Institute
    - Estimated Exposures and Thyroid Doses Received by the American People from Iodine-131 in Fallout Following Nevada Atmospheric Nuclear Bomb Tests (October 1997)
  - National Security Archive
    - The Cuban Missile Crisis
    - Nuclear History
    - The U.S. Military Online: A Directory for Internet Access to the Department of Defense, 2nd Edition (1998)
    - Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
      - Nuclear Program Web
        
        The Internet and the Bomb: A Research Guide to Policy and Information About Nuclear Weapons (April 1997)
        End Run: The U.S. Government's Plan for Designing Nuclear Weapons and Simulating Nuclear Explosions under the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (August 1997)
        Explosive Alliances: Nuclear Weapons Simulation Research at American Universities (January 1998)
        Taking Stock: Worldwide Nuclear Deployments 1998 (March 1998)
      - Nike surface-to-air missile system:
        
        Nike Missile Site SF-88 (Fort Barry, California)
        Nike Missile Sites in New York and New Jersey
        Nike Missile System Overview
        Nike Ajax and Nike Hercules Specifications and Performance Data
      - Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
      - Nuclear Control Institute
      - Nuclear Threat Initiative
      - Nuclear Watch of New Mexico
      - Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance
      - Physicians for Social Responsibility
      - Project Chariot: The Nuclear Legacy of Cape Thompson, Alaska
      - Race to Oblivion: A Participant's View of the Arms Race, by Herbert F. York (1970)
      - Radiation Effects Research Foundation (a joint United States-Japan research organization)
      - Remembering Nagasaki (an exhibit/forum at the Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco)
      - A Report on the International Control of Atomic Energy (The Acheson-Lilienthal Report), March 16, 1946
      - The Roswell-UFO-nuclear weapons connection:
        
        "The Roswell Incident and Project Mogul," Skeptical Inquirer, July/August 1995
        "A Die-Hard Issue: CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90," Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1997
        "What Really Happened at Roswell," Skeptical Inquirer, July/August 1997
      - Russian-American Nuclear Security Advisory Council
      - South Asians Against Nukes
      - Special on-line newspaper series on nuclear weapons and nuclear history:
        
        "50 Years From Trinity," The Seattle Times, July 9, 1995
        "Trinity: 50 Years Later," The Albuquerque Journal, July 9, 1995
        "Nevada Test Site 50th Anniversary," Las Vegas Review-Journal, December 18, 2000
      - Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
      - The Swords of Armageddon (Nuclear Weapons Reference Service)
      - Trinity Atomic Web Site
      - Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
      - Union of Concerned Scientists
        
        Global Security Program
      - U.S. Air Force History Museum
        
        Tactical Nuclear Weapons Delivery Technique ("Over the Shoulder")
      - U.S. Department of Defense
        
        Air Force Technical Applications Center
        Ballistic Missile Defense Organization
        Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
        National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
        National Reconnaissance Office
        
        Corona Photoreconnaissance Satellite Program (1960-1972)
        
        Declassified Imagery Library
        
        Defense Threat Reduction Agency
        National Security Agency
        
        VENONA: Soviet Espionage and the American Response, 1939-1957, National Security Agency/Central Intellingence Agency (1996)
        Declassified VENONA documents
        
        Nuclear Weapon Systems Sustainment Programs (May 1997)
        Office of Counterproliferation and Chemical/Biological Defense Programs
        Report on Search for Human Radiation Experiment Records, 1944-1994 (June 1997)
        U.S. Strategic Command
        U.S. Department of Energy
        
        Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
        
        Science & Technology Review
        
        "Preserving Nuclear Weapons Information," May 1997
        "Nova Laser Experiments and Stockpile Stewardship," September 1997
        
        Los Alamos National Laboratory
        National Nuclear Security Administration
        Nuclear Explosion Monitoring Research and Engineering Program
        Office of Environmental Management
        
        "Integrated Data Base Report—1995: U.S. Spent Nuclear Fuel and Radioactive Waste Inventories, Projections, and Characteristics" (Revision 12—December 1996)
        1996 Baseline Environmental Management Report (June 1996)
        Closing the Circle on the Splitting of the Atom (January 1995)
        Nuclear Age Timeline
        Taking Stock: A Look at the Opportunities and Challenges Posed by Inventories from the Cold War Era (January 1996)
        
        Office of Environment, Safety and Health
        
        Spent Fuel Working Group Report (November 1993)
        Environmental, Safety and Health Vulnerabilities Associated with the Department's Plutonium Storage (November 1994)
        
        Office of Human Radiation Experiments
        OpenNet Database for Declassified Documents
        
        Historical Records Review Database
        Openness Initiative Documents
        
        Plutonium: The First 50 Years -- United States Plutonium Production, Acquisition, and Utilization From 1944 to 1994 (February 1996)
        Radiological Effluents Released from U.S. Continental Tests, 1961 through 1992, DOE/NV-317 (Rev. 1), August 1996
        Sandia National Laboratories
        
        Cooperative Monitoring Center
        
        United States Nuclear Tests, July 1945 through September 1992, DOE/NV-209 (Rev. 15), December 2000
        
        Historical Nuclear Weapons Test Films
        
        U.S. Transuranium and Uranium Registries
        Verification Technology Information Centre (VERTIC)
        Visual Concept Entertainment
        
        Trinity and Beyond (The Atomic Bomb Movie)
        Atomic Filmmakers
        Atomic Journeys
        Nukes in Space
        Nuclear 911
        
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