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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

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