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Rosenberg, David Alan. “American Atomic Strategy and the Hydrogen Bomb Decision,”
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International Security
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International Security
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Sagan, Scott D. “SIOP-62: The Nuclear War Plan Briefing to President Kennedy,”
International Security,
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International Security,
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International Security
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Strategic Insights
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Propellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics
, 21, 1996, 150â54.
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Wellerstein, Alex. “Patenting the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Intellectual Property, and Technological Control,”
Isis,
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, Vol. 71, No. 4, 2007, 1133â67.
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Dissertations
Fitzpatrick, Anne. “Igniting the Elements: The Los Alamos Thermonuclear Project, 1942â1952,” Los Alamos National Laboratory, LA-13577-T, Thesis, July 1999.
Francis, Sybil. “Warhead Politics: Livermore and the Competitive System of Nuclear Weapons Design,” Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Politic Science, 1995.
Isemann, James Louis. “To Detect, to Deter, to Defend: The Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line and Early Cold War Defense Policy, 1953â1957,” Dissertation, Department of History, Kansas State University, 2009.
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Michel, Marshall L., III. “The Revolt of the Majors: How the Air Force Changed After Vietnam,” Dissertation Submitted to Auburn University, Alabama, December 15, 2006.
Pomeroy, Steven Anthony. “Echos That Never Were: American Mobile Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, 1956â1983,” Dissertation Submitted to Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, August 7, 2006.
Document Collections
Cantelon, Philip L., Richard G. Hewlett, and Robert C. Williams.
The American Atom: A Documentary History of Nuclear Policies from the Discovery of Fission to the Present.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
Coster-Mullen, John.
Atom Bombs: The Top Secret Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man.
Waukesha, WI: John Coster-Mullen, 2009.
Etzold, Thomas E., and John Lewis Gaddis.
Containment: Documents on American Policy and Strategy, 1945â1950.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.
Ferrell, Robert H., ed.
Harry S. Truman and the Bomb: A Documentary History.
Worland, WY: High Plains Publishing Company, 1996.
Hansen, Chuck.
The Swords of Armageddon (Digital Collection).
Sunnyvale, CA: Chuklea Publications, 2007.
Kort, Michael.
The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2012.
Maggelet, Michael H., and James C. Oskins.
Broken Arrow: The Declassified History of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Accidents.
Raleigh, NC: Lulu, 2007.
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Broken Arrow, Volume II: A Disclosure of Significant U.S., Soviet, and British Nuclear Weapon Incidents and Accidents, 1945â2008.
Raleigh, NC: Lulu, 2010.
May, Ernest R., and Philip D. Zelikow.
The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis.
New York: W. W. Norton, 2002.
Merrill, Dennis, ed.
Documentary History of the Truman Presidency, Volume 1: The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb on Japan.
Bethesda
,
MD: University Publications of America, 1995.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Containing the Public Messages and Statements of the President, January 1, 1960 to January 20, 1961.
Washington, D.C.: Office of the Federal Register, 1961.
Steury, Donald P., ed.
Intentions and Capabilities: Estimates on Soviet Strategic Forces, 1953â1983.
Washington, D.C.: History Staff, Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 1996.
United States State Department.
Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1945, Volume V, Europe.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1967.
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, Volume I, General, the United Nations.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1972.
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Foreign Relations of the United States: 1946, Volume VI, Eastern Europe; The Soviet Union.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1969.
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1955â1957, Volume XIX, National Security Policy.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1990.
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958â1960, Volume III, National Security Policy, Arms Control and Disarmament.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1996.
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961â1963, Volume VI, Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1996.
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961â1963, Volume VIII, National Security Policy.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1996.
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Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961â1963, Volume XI, Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath.
Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1996.