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Defining Documents in World History: The Nuclear Age

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Editor’s Introduction


Contributors


Full Table of Contents


The Atomic Age Begins


Albert Einstein’s Letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt


Letter to Robert Oppenheimer regarding a “Special Laboratory” in New Mexico


A Petition to the President Regarding the Atomic Bomb


President Truman’s Announcement of the Hiroshima Bombing


The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Nature of an Atomic Explosion


The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The Selection of the Target


The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Main Conclusions


The Early Cold War and Nuclear Weapons


Declaration on the Atomic Bomb


Atomic Energy and International Trade


NATO Treaty


Atomic Explosion in the USSR


International Control of Atomic Energy


NSC 68: “United States Objectives and Programs for National Security”


Statement by President Truman upon Signing the Mutual Security Act


“The Chance for Peace”


Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States and the Republic of Korea


A “New Look” at National Defense Policy


“Atoms for Peace”


Warsaw Pact


Launching of the Sputnik Satellite


Eisenhower on Science in National Security


Documents Relating to Project Chariot


National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958


Antarctic Treaty


The Red Scare and Atomic Spies


Testimony of Whittaker Chambers (Excerpted)


Klaus Fuchs Statement of Guilt


Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Speech to the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, West Virginia


Rosenberg Case Excerpts


In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer


Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy


To the Nuclear Brink and Back


The U-2 Spy-Plane Incident—Excerpts of a Speech by Khrushchev


Eisenhower’s Speech on the Military-Industrial Complex


Telegram from the US Mission in Berlin regarding the Sealing-off of East Berlin


JFK: “We Choose to Go to the Moon”


JFK on the Soviet Arms Buildup in Cuba


JFK: “A Strategy of Peace”


Limited Test Ban Treaty


Volume 2



Treaty on the Exploration and Use of Outer Space


Robert McNamara Speech on US Nuclear Strategy


Community Fallout Shelter Plan


Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty


Nuclear Accidents Measures Agreement


Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (SALT I)


SALT II


Jimmy Carter on the Three Mile Island Incident


The End of History?


From The Fate of the Earth


Ronald Reagan’s “Evil Empire” Speech


Able Archer ‘83: The Soviet “War Scare”


Reagan on the Strategic Defense Initiative


Extraordinary Session of the Soviet Politburo concerning the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster


Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Program and US Security Assistance


Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty


START I and START II


Agreed Framework between the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea


The Nuclear World Order Now


Intelligence Report on Iraq’s Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction


Colin Powell on Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction


Hans Blix on U.N. Weapons Inspection Efforts in Iraq


“Mission to Niger” and the Valerie Plame Affair


“A World Free of Nuclear Weapons”


Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Status Report


Joint Statement regarding the Iran Nuclear Accord


Authority to Order the Use of Nuclear Weapons


Marshall Islands Nuclear Commission Statement regarding Victims


Doomsday Clock 75th Anniversary


Resolution regarding Threats to the Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Nuclear Power Plant


Nuclear Fusion Announced


Appendixes



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography