The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Cost Study Project was completed in August 1998 and resulted in the book Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 edited by Stephen I. Schwartz. These project pages should be considered historical.
Nuclear weapons production, testing, and dismantlement
- Moving “Jumbo” at the Trinity test site
- The “Gadget”
- Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Handling radioactive materials at the Savannah River Laboratory
- Construction of high-level radioactive waste tanks at the Hanford Reservation
- Disposal of nuclear waste at Hanford, circa 1950s
- The ultradry room at the Y-12 Plant
- VIP observers at Operation Greenhouse, April 8, 1951
- Radioactive decontamination at the Nevada Proving Ground, April 23, 1951
- Troops observing the “Dog” test, November 1, 1951
- The “Mike” test, November 1, 1952
- Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site
- Department of Energy Safeguards Transporter
- The Cactus Dome
- Dismantling a B-61 gravity bomb
Bombers
- Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program
- B-58 bomber on ground alert
- B-52H with Advanced Cruise Missiles
- KC-10 tanker refueling a B-2 bomber
- B-2A bomber dropping a B61-11 gravity bomb
Strategic nuclear weapons
- The Rascal air-to-surface missile
- Snark cruise missile
- Matador cruise missile
- The Palomares “Broken Arrow”, January 1966
- Titan I missile complex under construction
- Titan I launch sequence
- Minuteman missile silo under construction
- Minuteman launch control capsules
- W62/Mk 12 re-entry vehicle
- Retiring a Minuteman ICBM
- MX re-entry vehicles in flight over the Pacific Ocean
- Polaris A-1 submarine-launched ballistic missle test launch
- Polaris A-3 and Poseidon C-3 submarine-launched ballistic missiles
- Poseidon missile test launch
- Nike defensive missiles
- Spartan and Sprint antiballistic missiles
- Stanley R. Mickelson Safeguard antiballistic missile complex
- Skybolt Air-Launched Ballistic Missile
- Air-Launched Cruise Missile
Submarines
- Launching of the USS George Washington
- P-3 Orion antisubmarine warfare plane
- A Trident submarine with missile hatches open
- Dismantling nuclear submarines
Non-strategic nuclear weapons
- U.S. Army missiles
- Lacrosse missile
- Redstone missile
- Davy Crockett
- Atomic Demolition Munitions
- Talos surface-to-air missile
- W48 155-millimeter artillery shell
- Lance missile
- B-61 gravity bomb
- Pershing II missile test launch
- Destruction of a Pershing II missile
Command, control, communications, and intelligence facilities
- Defense Support Program Early Warning Satellite
- TRESTLE Electromagnetic Pulse Simulator
- PAVE PAWS early-warning radar