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Primers

Two-man rule: A regulation that requires at least two people to be present at many stages of nuclear weapons operations and maintenance.

Documents

Date ▲	Title	File
1958-10-15	Ikle (RAND), "On the Risk of an Accidental or Unauthorized Nuclear Detonation"	URL
1998-06-08	The History of Nuclear Weapon Safety Devices	PDF
2017-11-14	Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on Nuclear Weapons Authority	PDF

Bibliographies

Abrams, Herbert L. "Human Reliability and Safety in the Handling of Nuclear Weapons." Science & Global Security 2 (1991): 325-34.

Ambinder, Marc. "Failure Shuts Down Squadron of Nuclear Missiles." The Atlantic. October 26, 2010. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/failure-shuts-down-squadron-of-nuclear-missiles/65207/.

Blair, Bruce G. The Logic of Accidental Nuclear War. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1993.

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

Curry, Dan. Always/Never: The Quest for Safety, Control & Survivability. Documentary. Sandia National Laboratories, 2010.

Ellsberg, Daniel. The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.

Feaver, Peter D. "Command and Control in Emerging Nuclear Nations." International Security 17, no. 3 (Winter 1992/93): 160-187.

Feiveson, Harold A (ed). The Nuclear Turning Point: A Blueprint for Deep Cuts and De-Alerting of Nuclear Weapons. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999.

Futter, Andrew. "The double-edged sword: US nuclear command and control modernization." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. June 29, 2016. https://thebulletin.org/2016/06/the-double-edged-sword-us-nuclear-command-and-control-modernization/.

Rubel, John H. Doomsday Delayed: USAF Strategic Weapons Doctrine and SIOP-62, 1959-1962. Lanham, Maryland: Hamilton Books, 2008.

Schlosser, Eric. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety. New York: The Penguin Press, 2013.

Seng, Jordan. "Less is more: Command and Control Advantages of Minor Nuclear States." Security Studies 6, no. 4 (summer 1997) 50-92.

Smith, Alice K. A Peril and a Hope: The Scientists' Movement in America: 1945-47. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.