Key Information
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1982-1996 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent
103 reels and eight published guides
Scope and content
Microfilm copies of official US government reports and US military, scientific, academic and policy journals relating to nuclear weapons, arms control, weapons technology, deterrence, nuclear strategy, and US foreign policy, 1919-1995. The reports have been arranged chronologically and include material relating to non-proliferation treaty safeguards; civil defence in the United States; deterrence theory; analyses of the Soviet Military Industrial Complex; interview transcripts of US government officials associated with weapons systems development and deployment; qualitative and quantitative analyses of the US-Soviet arms race; analyses of the theory of flexible response; nuclear capabilities of the People's Republic of China; North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) missile warning systems, 1968-1981; the Joint Cruise Missiles Project, 1982; the Tonopah Test Range technical manual, 1982; the planning of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's (NATO) nuclear deterrent for the 1980s and 1990s; French and British nuclear forces in the 1980s and 1990s; the evolution of US and NATO tactical nuclear doctrine and limited nuclear war options, the Strategic Defense Initiative Program (SDI); trends in anti-nuclear protests in the US; US National Security Policy, 1980s; the threat of nuclear terrorism; the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty; anti-satellite weaponry; the threat of biological and chemical weapons. Official US government reports include report to the US Congress relating to stockpile reliability, weapons re-manufacture, and the role of nuclear testing, 1987; report to the US Congress on the Strategic Defense Initiative, 1989; Nevada Test Site Annual Site Environmental Report, 1989; report on the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), including the text of the treaty and a number of related documents and protocols, 1991; the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations, 1993; the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency report to the US Congress, 1994; US Department of Energy reports relating to the disposal and storage of fissile materials, 1995.
System of arrangement
Arranged in the following chronological sections: 1969-1981 (MF 85-101); Supplement, 1981-1982 (MF 102-110); Second Supplement, 1983-1984 (MF 192-203); Third Supplement, 1985- 1986 (MF 185-191); Fourth Supplement, 1987-1988 (MF 323-332); Fifth Supplement, 1989-1990 (MF 553-564); Sixth Supplement, 1991-1992 (MF 770-781); Seventh Supplement, 1993-1995 (MF 844-855)
General Information
Repository
Custodial history
University Publications of America, Inc., Bethesda, MD, with supplementary guides edited by Robert Lester, Paul Kesaris, Nanette Dobrosky, and Blair Hydrick.
Conditions governing access
Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copies may be printed off the microfilm/microfiche for research purposes and are charged at cost.
Enquiries concerning the copyright of the original material should be addressed to University Publications of America Inc.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Finding aids
This collection level description. Further finding aids may be available in the Reading Room.
Note
Compiled Jun 1999
Alternative identifier(s)
Subjects
- Alliances
- Arms control
- Arms race
- Central government
- Civil defence
- Defence
- Disarmament
- Foreign relations
- Government
- Government policy
- Higher science education
- International relations
- Military education
- Military engineering
- Military equipment
- Missiles
- Nuclear engineering
- Nuclear testing
- Nuclear warfare
- Nuclear weapons
- Peace
- Public administration
- State security
- Warfare
- Weapons
Place access points
People and Organisations
Genre access points
Rules and/or conventions used
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.