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| Introduction | |
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| The Nuclear Age: Background And Visions | |
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| Nuclear Energy: H. G. Wells's Vision, 1914 | |
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| Leo Szilard and the Discovery of Fission | |
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| The Szilard-Einstein Letter, August 2, 1939 | |
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| The Frisch-Peierls Memorandum, 1940 | |
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| The MAUD Report, 1941 | |
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| The Manhattan Project | |
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| Letters of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1942-45 | |
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| The Quebec Agreement, August 19, 1943 | |
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| Anglo-American Declaration of Trust, June 13, 1944 | |
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| Roosevelt-Churchill Hyde Park Aide-Memoire, September 19, 1944 | |
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| O. R. Frisch, Eyewitness Account of "Trinity" Test, July 1945 | |
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| General Groves's Report on "Trinity," July 18, 1945 | |
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| Truman-Stalin Conversation, Potsdam, July 24, 1945 | |
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| Military Policy Committee Minutes, May 5, 1943 | |
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| Stimson and the Interim Committee, May 1945 | |
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| Interim Committee Minutes, May 31, 1945 | |
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| Science Panel: Recommendations on the Immediate Use of Nuclear Weapons, June 16, 1945 | |
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| Stimson and the Scientists' Concerns, June 26, 1945 | |
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| Chicago Scientists' Petition to the President, July 17, 1945 | |
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| White House Press Release on Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 | |
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| Atomic Energy In A Postwar World | |
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| Henry Stimson to Harry S. Truman, September 11, 1945 | |
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| The McMahon Bill, December 20, 1945 (Atomic Energy Act of 1946) | |
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| The Baruch Plan | |
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| "What Is the Atom's Industrial Future?" March 8, 1947 | |
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| President Dwight D. Eisenhower's ''Atoms for Peace" Address to the United Nations General Assembly | |
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| Excerpts from President Eisenhower's Press Conference, March 31, 1954 | |
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| The Hydrogen Bomb | |
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| "Political Implications of Detonation of Atomic Bomb by the U.S.S.R.," Department of State, Policy Planning Staff PPS/58, August 16, 1949 | |
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| Statement by the President on Announcing the First Atomic Explosion in the USSR, September 23, 1949 | |
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| USAEC General Advisory Committee Minutes, October 28-30, 1949 | |
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| USAEC General Advisory Committee Report on the "Super," October 30, 1949 | |
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| Lewis Strauss to Harry S. Truman, November 25, 1949 | |
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| Statement by the President on the Hydrogen Bomb, January 31, 1950 | |
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| Hans Bethe, Comments on the History of the H-bomb, 1954 | |
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| The Oppenheimer Case | |
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| K. D. Nichols, General Manager, AEC, to J. R. Oppenheimer, December 23, 1953 | |
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| J. R. Oppenheimer to K. D. Nichols, March 4, 1954 | |
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| Testimony in the Matter of J, Robert Oppenheimer | |
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| Findings on the Case of J. Robert Oppenheimer: K. D. Nichols to the USAEC, June 12, 1954 | |
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| Arthur Holly Compton to Gordon Gray, April 21, 1954, "Evidence Regarding Loyalty of Robert Oppenheimer | |
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| Nuclear Testing And The Test Ban | |
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| Announced Nuclear Tests, 1945-52 | |
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| Reported Nuclear Test Explosions, 1945-68 | |
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| "Civil Defense Faces New Perils," Ralph E. Lapp, 1954 | |
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| Atomic Energy Commission Meeting 1376, May 21, 1958 | |
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| Atomic Energy Commission Meeting 1377, May 28, 1958 | |
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| W. K. Wyant, Jr., ''50,000 Baby Teeth," The Nation, June 13, 1959 | |
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| Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space, and Under Water, August 5, 1963 | |
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| Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests, July 3, 1974 | |
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| Protocol to the Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Reepublics on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests, July 3, 1937 | |
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| Deterrence | |
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| Bernard Brodie, The Absolute Weapon, 1946 | |
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| John Foster Dulles on "Massive Retaliation," 1954 | |
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| Herman Kahn, On Thermonuclear War, 1960 | |
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| Robert McNamara and Counterforce "No Cities" Doctrine, 1962 | |
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| Presidential Directive 59, 1980 | |
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| President Ronald Reagan on Deterrence, November 23, 1982 | |
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| Arms Control | |
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| "Broken Arrows": Nuclear Weapons Accidents, 1950-68 | |
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| White House Statement on the Soviet Missile Sites in Cuba, October 26, 1962 | |
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| White House Statement on Soviet Proposals Relating to International Security, October 27, 1962 | |
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| Message to Chairman Khrushchev Calling for Removal of Soviet Missiles From Cuba, October 27, 1962 | |
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| Message in Reply to a Broadcast by Chairman Khrushchev on the Cuban Crisis, October 28, 1962 | |
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| Statement by the President Following the Soviet Decision to Withdraw Missiles from Cuba, October 28, 1952 | |
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| Memorandum of Understanding between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Regarding the Establishment of a Direct Communications Link, June 20, 1963 (with Annex) | |
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| Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, March 5, 1970 | |
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| Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Lï¿½Ç | |
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| Interim Agreement between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republiï¿½Ç | |
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| USA-USSR Agreement to Reduce the Risk of Nuclear War Outbreak, September 30, 1972 | |
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| Protocol to the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Reï¿½Ç | |
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| Salt II Treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ï¿½Ç | |
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| U.S. Bishops' Pastoral Letter on War and Peace: A Summary | |
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| William P. Clark, National Security Council, to Archbishop Joseph L. Bernadin, Chairman of the Nï¿½Ç | |
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| Nuclear Power | |
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| Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (selections) | |
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| Report of the AEC Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards on the Fermi Nuclear Power Plant, 195ï¿½Ç | |
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| AFL-CIO Statement on Fermi, 1956 | |
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| Preliminary Report on Fuel Damage in Fermi Reactor, 1966 | |
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| Calved Cliffs Coordinating Committee versus U.S. Atomic Energy Committee, 1971 | |
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| Three Mile Island; Nuclear News Special Report, April 6, 1979 | |
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| Afterword | |
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| Index | |