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Primers

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Documents

Date ▲TitleFile
1975-06IDA, "The Evolution of U.S. Strategic Command and Control and Warning, 1945-1972"PDF
1978-02OASOD, "History of the Custody and Deployment of Nuclear Weapons, July 1945 through September 1977"PDF
1985-01The Command and Control of Nuclear WarPDF
2014-10-02USAF, Air Force Instruction 13-550 ("Air Force Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications")PDF
2015-05-19USAF, Annex 3-72 Nuclear OperationsPDF

Bibliographies

Burns, Robert and Richard Lardner. " Retired US general says nuclear launch order can be refused." AP News. November 14, 2017. https://www.apnews.com/14eb66de62fc49b181680ccbd7394646.

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.

Graff, Garrett M. "The President’s Secret Air Force." Politico. May 2, 2017. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/02/the-presidents-secret-air-force-215091.

Hering, Harold. "Nukes." Interview with Latif Nasser. Radiolab. Podcast audio, April 7, 2017. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/nukes.

Rosenbaum, Ron. "An Unsung Hero of the Nuclear Age: Maj. Harold Hering and the forbidden question that cost him his career." Slate, February 28, 2011. http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_spectator/2011/02/an_unsung_hero_of_the_nuclear_age.single.html.

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

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