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Date ▼	Title	File
1964-07-22	DDRS, Letter to McGeorge Bundy from the Deputy Secretary of Defense regarding the modified installation of permissive action link (PAL) devices on various weapons systems.	PDF
1963-11-13	NSA, National Security Action Memorandum No. 272	PDF
1963-08-31	DDRS, Comments on Department of Defense Draft Memorandum: Strategic Striking Forces	PDF
1963-08-10	NSA, Permissive Link for Minuteman	PDF
1963-05-29	NSA, Secret Memorandum from Jerome Bert Wiesner, Science Adviser to President Kennedy	PDF
1963-03-22	NSA, Assignment of Highest National Priority to Project PAL (Permissive Links for Nuclear Weapons in NATO)	PDF
1962-06-2	NSA, Permissive Links for Nuclear Weapons in NATO Memorandum No. 160	PDF
1961-07-16	Atomic Stockpiles Memorandum	PDF
1961-01-25	DDRS, Memorandum for the record by Brigadier Gen. A.J. Goodpaster outlines his meeting with President-elect Kennedy to inform Kennedy of procedures to be used in the event of a national emergency.	PDF
1958-10-15	Ikle (RAND), "On the Risk of an Accidental or Unauthorized Nuclear Detonation"	URL
1957-02-06	"Authorization for the Expenditure of Nuclear Weapons" (Draft)	PDF
1956-03-15	NSC 5602/1, "Basic National Security Policy"	PDF
1952-09-10	NSC, "Agreed Concepts Regarding Atomic Weapons"	PDF
1952-06-11	NSC on Atomic Energy: 1952 Staff Study	PDF
1948-09-10	NSC-30, "United States Policy on Atomic Warfare"	PDF
1946-08-01	US Atomic Energy Act of 1946	PDF
1945-08-10	Groves to Marshall on third atomic bomb (with reply)	PDF

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