Topic Explorer

The Topic Explorer uses the same search and topic filters for all of the different resources on this site. It is meant to allow easy cross-examination of different issues.

Topics

1940s (29) 1950s (32) 1960s (43) 1970s (21) 1980s (17) 1990s (8) 2000s (5) 2010s (24) Bush, George W. (1) Carter, James (6) Chain of command (15) Civilian-military divide (22) Clinton, William J. (2) Congress (21) Congressional Research Service (4) Constitutionality (6) Custody (22) Cybersecurity (3) Directives (6) Doctrine (20) Early warning systems (17) Eisenhower, Dwight D. (20) Ford, Gerald R. (2) France (12) India (11) Israel (7) Johnson, Lyndon B. (11) Kennedy, John F. (24) Law of war (9) Missiles (6) NATO (21) News Media (18) Nixon, Richard M. (11) Non-Use (8) North Korea (10) Nuclear accidents (17) Nuclear football (17) Nuclear launch procedure (32) Nuclear safety (34) Nuclear war plans (31) Obama, Barack (8) Oral history (1) Overseas deployment (19) Pakistan (17) People's Republic of China (15) Permissive Action Links (23) Predelegation (17) Presidential nuclear control (57) RAND Corporation (4) Reagan, Ronald (8) Remedies (5) Russian Federation (16) South Africa (1) Soviet Union (23) Succession (3) Truman, Harry S. (21) Trump, Donald J. (18) Two-man rule (9) United Kingdom (19) United States of America (126) US Air Force (21) US Atomic Energy Commission (15) US Department of Defense (28) US Department of Energy (5) US Joint Chiefs of Staff (17) US National Security Council (7) US Secretary of Defense (11) US Strategic Air Command (15) US Strategic Command (15) World War II (8)

Primers

Sorry, there aren't any results in the database that match your filter parameters.

Documents

Date ▲	Title	File
1987-08-21	Reagan- U.S. Command and Control Directive	PDF
1988	The President and the Atomic Bomb: Who Approved the Trinity Nuclear Test	PDF
1995-06-20	Written Statement of the Government of the United States (on the legality of nuclear weapons)	PDF
1996-02-12	USJCS, "Nuclear Supplement to Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan For FY 1996"	PDF
1998-06-08	The History of Nuclear Weapon Safety Devices	PDF
2010-04-06	2010 Nuclear Posture Review	PDF
2010-04-08	New START	PDF
2013-04-23	USAF, Air Force Instruction 91-104 (Two-Person Concept)	PDF
2014-10-02	USAF, Air Force Instruction 13-550 ("Air Force Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications")	PDF
2015-05-19	USAF, Annex 3-72 Nuclear Operations	PDF
2016-09-22	The Nuclear Necessity Principle	PDF
2016-12	DOD Law of War Manual, June 2015 (updated December 2016)	PDF
2017-11-14	DOD Instruction 5210.42: DOD Nuclear Weapons Personnel Reliability Assurance	PDF
2017-11-14	Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on Nuclear Weapons Authority	PDF
2017-11-14	Use of Nuclear Weapons Authority	PDF
2017-11-18	Halifax International Security Forum Transcript	PDF
2019-03-01	U.S. Nuclear Weapon Policy: Considering “No First Use”	PDF

Page 1 2

Bibliographies

Knipp, Delores J., et al. "The May 1967 Great Storm and Radio Disruption Event: Extreme Space Weather and Extraordinary Responses." Space Weather 14 (2016): 614–633. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/2016SW001423.

Caldwell, Dan. "Permissive action links: A description and proposal." Survival 29, no. 3 (May 1987): 224-238.

Giles, Gregory F. "Safeguarding the Undeclared Nuclear Arsenals." The Washington Quarterly 16, no. 2 (spring 1993): 173-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/01636609309443403.

MacDonald, Eryn. "Whose Finger Is on the Button? Nuclear Launch Authority in the United States and Other Nations." Union of Concerned Scientists. October, 2017. https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2017/11/Launch-Authority.pdf.

Narang, Vipin. Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2014.

Narang, Vipin and Ankit Panda. "Command and Control in North Korea: What a Nuclear Launch Might Look Like." War on the Rocks. September 15, 2017. https://warontherocks.com/2017/09/command-and-control-in-north-korea-what-a-nuclear-launch-might-look-like/.

Hoffman, David E. "The Russian Nuclear Button: New questions about the Soviet legacy of three briefcases." Foreign Policy. May 27, 2010. https://foreignpolicy.com/2010/05/27/the-russian-nuclear-button-2/.

Lewis, Jeffrey. "Our Nuclear Procedures Are Crazier Than Trump." Foreign Policy. August 5, 2016. https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/05/our-nuclear-procedures-are-crazier-than-trump/.

Rogoway, Tyler. "Pentagon May Replace Its Doomsday Planes And 'Air Force Two' With One New Type." The Drive. June 24, 2017. http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/11207/pentagon-may-replace-its-doomsday-planes-and-air-force-two-with-one-new-type.

Allard, Kenneth. Command, Control, and the Common Defense. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990.

Bracken, Paul J. "Do we really want to eliminate the chance of accidental war?" Defense Analysis 4, no. 1 (1988): 81-89.

Congressional Research Service. Authority to order the use of nuclear weapons (United States, United Kingdom, France, Soviet Union, People's Republic of China). Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 1975. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003216700/Home.

Sagan, Scott D. Moving Targets, Nuclear Strategy, and National Security. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Burr, William. "Newly Declassified Documents on Advance Presidential Authorization of Nuclear Weapons Use." National Security Archive, August 30, 1998. https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//news/predelegation2/predel2.htm.

Pearson, David E. The World Wide Military Command and Control System: Evolution and Effectiveness. Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama: Air University Press, 2000.

Pearson, David E. "Strategic Command and Control in the 1990s." Defense Analysis 7, no. 4 (1991): 373—399.

Snyder, Don, Sarah A. Nowak, Mahyar A. Amouzegar, Julie Kim, and Richard Mesic. Sustaining the U.S. Air Force Nuclear Mission. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2013. https://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1240.html.

Altmann, Jürgen. "Acoustic-Seismic Detection of Ballistic-Missile Launches for Cooperative Early Warning of Nuclear Attack." Science and Global Security 13, no. 3 (2005): 129-168.

Colangelo, Anthony J. "The Duty to Disobey Illegal Nuclear Strike Orders." SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 368. Harvard National Security Journal 9 (August 2018): https://ssrn.com/abstract=3048979.

Gregory, Shaun R. Nuclear Command and Control in NATO: Nuclear Weapons Operations and the Strategy of Flexible Response. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.

Kristensen, Hans M. U.S. Nuclear Weapons in Europe: A Review of Post-Cold War Policy, Force Levels, and War Planning. New York: Natural Resources Defense Council, 2005. https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/euro.pdf.

Butcher, Martin, Otfried Nassauer, Tanya Padberg, and Dan Plesch. Questions of Command and Control: NATO, Nuclear Sharing, and the NP. PENN Research Report 2000.1. Berlin: Project on European Nuclear Non-Proliferation, 2000. http://www.bits.de/public/pdf/00-1command.pdf.

Gregory, Shaun R. "The Command and Control of British Tactical Nuclear Weapons." Defense Analysis 4, no. 1 (1988): 39-51.

Gregory, Shaun R. "French Nuclear Command and Control." Defense Analysis 6, no. 1 (1990): 49-68.

Goldstein, Lyle J. (ed). China's Nuclear Force Modernization. Naval War College Newport Papers 22. Newport, Rhode Island: Naval War College, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, 2005.

Stokes, Mark A. China’s Nuclear Warhead Storage and Handling System. Arlington, VA: Project 2049 Institute, 2010. https://project2049.net/2010/03/12/chinas-nuclear-warhead-storage-and-handling-system/.

Lewis, John Wilson and Xue Litai. "Strategic Weapons and Chinese Power: The Formative Years." The China Quarterly no. 112 (December 1987): 541-554.

Zhao, Tong. Tides of Change: China's Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines and Strategic Stability. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2018.

Chakma, Bhumitra. "Pakistan’s Nuclear Doctrine and Command and Control System: Dilemmas of Small Nuclear Forces in the Second Atomic Age." Security Challenges 2, no. 2 (July 2006): 115-133.

Bremmer, Ian and Maria Kuusisto. Pakistan’s Nuclear Command and Control: Perception Matters. SASSI Research Report 15. London: South Asian Strategic Stability Institute (SASSI), 2008.

Wynn, Humphrey. RAF Nuclear Deterrent Forces: Their Origins, Roles, and Development 1946-1969. London: The Stationery Office (TSO), 1997.

Pakenham, W.T.T. Naval Command and Control. Brassey's Sea Power: Naval Vessels, Weapons Systems and Technology Series, Vol. 8. London: Brassey's, 1989.

Yost, David S. "Nuclear Debates in France." Survival 36, no. 4 (1994): 113-139. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00396339408442766.

Podvig, Pavel (ed). Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004.

Khan, Feroz Hassan. Going Tactical: Pakistan’s Nuclear Posture and Implications for Stability. Proliferation Papers 53. Paris: The Institut Français des Relations Internationales (Ifri), September 2015. https://www.ifri.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/pp53khan_0.pdf.

Miraglia, Sébastien. "Deadly or Impotent? Nuclear Command and Control in Pakistan." Journal of Strategic Studies 36, no. 6 (2013): 841-866. https://doi.org/10.1080/01402390.2013.805126.

Bowen, Clayton P. and Daniel Wolvén. "Command and Control Challenges in South Asia." Nonproliferation Review 6, no. 3 (Spring–Summer 1999): 25-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/10736709908436762.

Mian, Zia. A Nuclear Tiger By The Tail: Some Problems of Command and Control in South Asia. PU/CEES Report no. 328. Princeton, NJ: Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton Environmental Institute, 2003. https://www.princeton.edu/sgs/publications/articles/report328.pdf.

Gregory, Shaun R. "Nuclear Command and Control in Pakistan." Defense & Security Analysis 23, no. 3 (September 2007): 315–330.

Lamothe, Dan. "If Trump wants a nuclear attack against North Korea, his military advisers have few other options." Washington Post. August 10, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/08/10/if-trump-wants-a-nuclear-attack-against-north-korea-his-military-advisers-have-few-other-options/?utm_term=.924fe6b2f5e5#comments.

Hosenball, Mark and Phil Stewart. "Pentagon to lease privately owned Trump Tower apartment for nuclear 'football': letter." Reuters. May 5, 2017. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pentagon-trumptower/pentagon-to-lease-privately-owned-trump-tower-apartment-for-nuclear-football-letter-idUSKBN1812B5.

Wellerstein, Alex. "No one can stop President Trump from using nuclear weapons. That's by design." Washington Post, December 1, 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/12/01/no-one-can-stop-president-trump-from-using-nuclear-weapons-thats-by-design/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.05b5b6a7fe06.

Wellerstein, Alex and Avner Cohen. "If Trump wants to use nuclear weapons, whether it’s ‘legal’ won’t matter." Washington Post, November 22, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/11/22/if-trump-wants-to-use-nuclear-weapons-whether-its-legal-wont-matter/?utm_term=.b893af9d38d5.

Demirjian, Karoun. "Trump’s nuclear authority divides senators alarmed by his ‘volatile’ behavior." Washington Post, November 14, 2017. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senators-deadlock-in-debate-over-whether-to-restrain-trumps-nuclear-launch-authority/2017/11/14/491a994a-c95b-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html?utm_term=.5eecae311b16.

Krugler, David F. This Is Only a Test: How Washington D.C. Prepared for Nuclear War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Gulley, Bill. Breaking Cover. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980.

Burr, William. U.S. Nuclear War Plan Option Sought Destruction of China and Soviet Union as “Viable” Societies. Briefing Book #638. Washington, D.C.: National Security Archive, 2018. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2018-08-15/us-nuclear-war-plan-option-sought-destruction-china-soviet-union-viable-societies.

Kimball, Jeffrey P. and William Burr. Nixon's Nuclear Specter: The Secret Alert of 1969, Madman Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2015.

Eden, Lynn. "The contingent taboo." Review of International Studies 36, no. 4 (October 2010): 831-837.

Burr, William. U.S. Presidents and the Nuclear Taboo. Briefing Book #611. Washington, D.C.: National Security Archive, 2017. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2017-11-30/us-presidents-nuclear-taboo.

Page 1 2 3