Bill was the author of the very first Electronic Briefing Book (EBB) published on the National Security Archive’s website in 1996. Over the years, he continued to shape the series and was ultimately the author or co-author of a record 233 EBBs, with his final contribution being EBB No. 906.
1996
The United States, China, and the Bomb
August 17, 1998
Documents on the U.S. Atomic Energy Detection System [AEDS]
October 13, 1999
New Archival Evidence on Taiwanese "Nuclear Intentions", 1966-1976
December 13, 1999
U.S. Nuclear Weapons on Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima
March 31, 2000
The Chinese Nuclear Weapons Program: Problems of Intelligence Collection and Analysis, 1964-1972
May 24, 2000
U.S. Planning for War in Europe, 1963-64
December 18, 2000
Missile Defense Thirty Years Ago: Déjà Vu All Over Again?
January 12, 2001
President Kennedy and Top Aids Considered Preventive Military Action Against Chinese Nuclear Weapons Plant
January 12, 2001
The United States and the Chinese Nuclear Program, 1960-1964
January 17, 2001
Operation Desert Storm: Ten Years Later
April, 2001
Launch on Warning: The Development of U.S. Capabilities, 1959-1979
April 9, 2001
Reconnaissance Flights and Sino-American Relations
May 18, 2001
First Declassification of Eisenhower's Instructions Predelegating Nuclear Weapons Use
June 5, 2001
The Pentagon Papers: Secrets, Lies and Audiotapes
June 12, 2001
The Sino-Soviet Border Conflict, 1969: U.S. Reactions and Diplomatic Maneuvers
August 9, 2001
Archive Hails Turnover of Kissinger Papers
September 25, 2001
First Strike Options and The Berlin Crisis: September 1961
October 26, 2001
Volume IV: the Once and Future King?
November 8, 2001
The Secret History of The ABM Treaty, 1969-1972
December 6, 2001
East Timor Revisited
February 11, 2002
Archive Hails Final Turnover of Kissinger Telcons
February 27, 2002
The Beijing-Washington Back-Channel and Henry Kissinger's Secret Trip to China
May 22, 2002
Negotiating U.S.-China Rapprochement
October 31, 2002
The Submarines of October
December 23, 2002
Nixon's Nuclear Ploy: The Vietnam Negotiations and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Readiness Test, October 1969
May 21, 2003
Dubious Secrets
May 21, 2003
CIA Stamped Secret on Santa Claus,Blacked Out Joke on North Pole Terrorism
July 1, 2003
1960s "Nth Country Experiment" Foreshadows Today's Concerns Over the Ease of Nuclear Proliferation
October 7, 2003
The October War and U.S. Policy
December 11, 2003
Nixon's Trip to China
January 14, 2004
"It Is Certain There Will be Many Firestorms"
March 5, 2004
China, Pakistan, and the Bomb the Declassified File on U.S. Policy, 1977-1997
May 26, 2004
The Kissinger Telcons
July 13, 2004
U.S. Nuclear War Plans A "Hazard to Ourselves as Well as Our Enemy"
July 13, 2004
The Creation of SIOP-62
October 1, 2004
The Kissinger State Department Telcons
October 27, 2004
"The Master of the Game"
December 21, 2004
New Documentary Reveals Secret U.S., Chinese Diplomacy Behind Nixon's Trip
June 1, 2005
National Intelligence Estimates of the Nuclear Proliferation Problem
June 29, 2005
Nixon/Kissinger Saw India as "Soviet Stooge" in 1971 South Asia Crisis
July 1, 2005
"Consultation is Presidential Business"
August 5, 2005
The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II (2005)
November 23, 2005
"To Have the Only Option That of Killing 80 Million People is the Height of Immorality"(Note 1)
February 21, 2006
Declassification in Reverse
April 11, 2006
Secret Agreement Reveals Covert Program to Hide Reclassification from Public
April 19, 2006
Secret Understanding Between National Archives and CIA Exposes Framework for Surreptitious Reclassification Program
April 21, 2006
U.S. National Archives Web Site Uploads Thousands of Diplomatic Cables
July 31, 2006
Nixon White House Considered Nuclear Options Against North Vietnam, Declassified Documents Reveal
August 18, 2006
How Many and Where Were the Nukes?
June 15, 2007
U.S. Opposed Taiwanese Bomb during 1970s
August 10, 2007
The George Polk Case
September 10, 2007
The Algerian Nuclear Problem, 1991: Controversy over the Es Salam Nuclear Reactor
November 2, 2007
Kissinger Conspired with Soviet Ambassador to Keep Secretary of State in the Dark
November 21, 2007
New Evidence on the Origins of Overkill
January 14, 2008
In 1974 Estimate, CIA Found that Israel Already Had a Nuclear Stockpile and that "Many Countries" Would Soon Have Nuclear Capabilities
February 28, 2008
"Prevent the Reemergence of a New Rival"
December 23, 2008
"We can bomb the bejesus out of them all over North Vietnam."
January 13, 2009
U.S.-Iran Nuclear Negotiations in 1970s Featured Shah's Nationalism and U.S. Weapons Worries
May 1, 2009
"How Much is Enough?": The U.S. Navy and "Finite Deterrence"*
June 5, 2009
The Secrecy Court of Last Resort
July 17, 2009
More Dubious Secrets
September 11, 2009
Previously Classified Interviews with Former Soviet Officials Reveal U.S. Strategic Intelligence Failure Over Decades
September 22, 2009
U.S. Intelligence and the Detection of the First Soviet Nuclear Test, September 1949
December 10, 2009
Thirtieth Anniversary of NATO's Dual-Track Decision
January 15, 2010
The Air Force versus Hollywood
February 12, 2010
Project Azorian
April 7, 2010
Why is "Poodle Blanket" Classified?
April 8, 2010
How Much is Enough? Part II
April 14, 2010
Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin Centenary - 1919-2019
April 14, 2010
In Memoriam: Anatoly Fedorovich Dobrynin (1919-2010)
June 16, 2010
"We can't go on the way we are"
December 21, 2010
The United States and Pakistan's Quest for the Bomb
February 19, 2011
"Nobody Wins a Nuclear War" But "Success" is Possible
May 26, 2011
The French Bomb, with Secret U.S. Help
August 12, 2011
The Berlin Wall, Fifty Years Ago
October 11, 2011
U.S. Strategic Nuclear Policy: A Video History, 1945-2004
December 5, 2011
The Nixon Administration and the Indian Nuclear Program, 1972-1974
March 1, 2012
The 3 A.M. Phone Call
April 27, 2012
New Documents Spotlight Reagan-era Tensions over Pakistani Nuclear Program
April 27, 2012
New Documents Spotlight Reagan-era Tensions over Pakistani Nuclear Program
May 29, 2012
The MIGHTY DERRINGER Nuclear Exercise of 1986
May 29, 2012
Mighty Derringer
June 23, 2012
Early Atomic Energy Commission Studies Show Concern over Gas Centrifuge Proliferation Risk
July 23, 2012
Early Atomic Energy Commission Studies Show Concern over Gas Centrifuge Proliferation risk
September 14, 2012
Jimmy Carter's Controversial Nuclear Targeting Directive PD-59 Declassified
October 16, 2012
Pentagon Estimated 18,500 U.S. Casualties in Cuba Invasion 1962, But If Nukes Launched, "Heavy Losses" Expected
October 19, 2012
Cuban Missile Crisis Day by Day: From the Pentagon's "Sensitive Records"
October 24, 2012
The Underwater Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Submarines and the Risk of Nuclear War
November 6, 2012
Declassified 1964 National Intelligence Estimate Predicts India's Bomb But Not Israel's
November 19, 2012
Declassified Pentagon History Provides Hair-Raising Scenarios of U.S. Vulnerabilities to Nuclear Attack through 1970s
December 12, 2012
U.S. Had Plans for "Full Nuclear Response" In Event President Killed or Disappeared during an Attack on the United States
February 22, 2013
U.S. Detected Indian Nuclear Test Preparations in 1995, but Photo Evidence was "Clear As Mud"
March 5, 2013
State Department Intelligence and Research Predicted 1973 Arab-Israeli War
April 23, 2013
China May Have Helped Pakistan Nuclear Weapons Design, Newly Declassified Intelligence Indicates
June 25, 2013
The Israel-Argentina Yellowcake Connection
August 2, 2013
The Limited Test Ban Treaty - 50 Years Later: New Documents Throw Light on Accord Banning Atmospheric Nuclear Testing
September 25, 2013
"Disreputable if Not Outright Illegal": The National Security Agency versus Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Art Buchwald, Frank Church, et al.
October 7, 2013
Every Nuclear-Tipped Missile is an "Accident Waiting to Happen"
November 22, 2013
Pakistan's Illegal Nuclear Procurement Exposed in 1987
December 16, 2013
Proliferation Watch: U.S. Intelligence Assessments of Potential Nuclear Powers, 1977-2001
December 16, 2013
Proliferation Watch: U.S. Intelligence Assessments of Potential Nuclear Powers, 1977-2001
January 24, 2014
Kissinger to Ford: "Smash" Rumsfeld
February 21, 2014
Dubious Secrets of the Cuban Missile Crisis
February 28, 2014
60th Anniversary of Castle BRAVO Nuclear Test, the Worst Nuclear Test in U.S. History
March 27, 2014
U.S. National Archives Web Site Uploads Hundreds of Thousands of Diplomatic Cables from 1977
April 21, 2014
Declassified Documents Show Henry Kissinger's Major Role in the 1974 Initiative That Created the Nuclear Suppliers Group
June 9, 2014
New Details on the 1961 Goldsboro Nuclear Accident
July 22, 2014
Studies by Once Top Secret Government Entity Portrayed Terrible Costs of Nuclear War
September 12, 2014
Israel Crosses the Threshold II: The Nixon Administration Debates the Emergence of the Israeli Nuclear Program
October 16, 2014
China's First Nuclear Test 1964 -- 50th Anniversary
December 23, 2014
Newly Released Sandia Labs Film Presents Story of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Safety Effort
March 4, 2015
Archive Sues State Department Over Kissinger Telcons
March 24, 2015
New Memoir by Participant in U.S. H-Bomb Program Sheds Light on the Making of the First Test Device
April 15, 2015
The U.S. Discovery of Israel's Secret Nuclear Project
April 24, 2015
International Atomic Energy Agency Lacks Transparency, Observers and Researchers Say
May 29, 2015
Nixon, Kissinger, and the Madman Strategy during Vietnam War
June 29, 2015
The Gas Centrifuge Secret: Origins of a U.S. Policy of Nuclear Denial, 1954-1960
July 14, 2015
Iran’s Nuclear Program – Then and Now
August 4, 2015
The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II
August 19, 2015
The Kissinger Telcons: New Documents Throw Light on Sensitive Ford and Kissinger Views
October 14, 2015
The United States and the Pakistani Bomb, 1984-1985: President Reagan, General Zia, Nazir Ahmed Vaid, and Seymour Hersh
December 22, 2015
U.S. Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified for First Time
February 19, 2016
Nuclear Weapons on Okinawa Declassified December 2015, Photos Available Since 1990
April 21, 2016
Concerned About Nuclear Weapons Potential, John F. Kennedy Pushed for Inspection of Israel Nuclear Facilities
May 18, 2016
Will China Help Pakistan Get the Bomb?
July 1, 2016
70th Anniversary of Operation Crossroads Atomic Tests in Bikini Atoll, July 1946
July 22, 2016
Bikini A-Bomb Tests July 1946
August 15, 2016
U.S. Government Debated Secret Nuclear Deployments in Iceland
September 14, 2016
Did Nixon Even Read the CIA’s Daily Briefs?
September 30, 2016
Unilateral U.S. nuclear pullback in 1991 matched by rapid Soviet cuts
November 2, 2016
The NUMEC Affair: Did Highly Enriched Uranium from the U.S. Aid Israel's Nuclear Weapons Program?
December 6, 2016
The Vela Incident: South Atlantic Mystery Flash in September 1979 Raised Questions about Nuclear Test
December 22, 2016
Reagan's Nuclear War Briefing Declassified
March 22, 2017
Stopping Korea from Going Nuclear, Part I
April 12, 2017
Stopping Korea from Going Nuclear, Part II
June 8, 2017
Japan Plutonium Overhang Origins and Dangers Debated by U.S. Officials
July 20, 2017
The Murrey Marder Papers at the National Security Archive
August 30, 2017
"Clean" Nukes and the Ecology of Nuclear War
September 25, 2017
National Security Agency Tracking of U.S. Citizens – “Questionable Practices” from 1960s & 1970s
October 16, 2017
The Cuban Missile Crisis at 55
October 26, 2017
60th Anniversary of the International Atomic Energy Agency
November 30, 2017
U.S. Presidents and the Nuclear Taboo
February 2, 2018
Preoccupations with West Germany’s Nuclear Weapons Potential Shaped Kennedy-Era Diplomacy
March 21, 2018
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and the German Nuclear Question Part II, 1965-1969
April 6, 2018
CIA Debriefed Soviet H-Bomb Eye-Witness in 1957
May 24, 2018
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Mexican Amendments: The Negotiating Record
July 9, 2018
Presidential Control of Nuclear Weapons: The "Football"
August 1, 2018
Japan Announces Policy Change on Plutonium Overhang
August 15, 2018
U.S. Nuclear War Plan Option Sought Destruction of China and Soviet Union as “Viable” Societies
September 10, 2018
Remembering Matthew M. Aid (1958–2018)
October 2, 2018
The Clinton-Yeltsin Relationship in Their Own Words
October 29, 2018
60th Anniversary of Irish Resolution: A Forerunner of the NPT
December 11, 2018
NATO's Original Purpose: Double Containment of the Soviet Union and "Resurgent" Germany
January 10, 2019
Taiwan’s Quest for the Bomb
February 12, 2019
U.S.-Japan Negotiations over Reprocessing and Plutonium Use: Opening Moves, 1981-1982
February 25, 2019
How the Strategic Air Command Would Go to Nuclear War
April 9, 2019
Kissinger State Department Insisted that South Koreans Break Contract with French for Reprocessing Plant
June 4, 2019
Tiananmen Massacre 30th Anniversary
June 11, 2019
The “Launch on Warning” Nuclear Strategy and Its Insider Critics
July 16, 2019
"Atoms for Peace" Was Actually a “Threat to Peace” – AEC Official in 1955
August 9, 2019
Kissinger Told Soviet Envoy during 1973 Arab-Israeli War:
“My Nightmare is a Victory for Either Side” – The Soviet Agreed
September 9, 2019
Detection of the First Soviet Nuclear Test, September 1949
September 22, 2019
The Vela Flash: Forty Years Ago
October 30, 2019
Nuclear Weapons and Turkey Since 1959
November 20, 2019
The First Nukes on the Korean Peninsula
January 22, 2020
Nuclear War Planning and the Challenge of Civilian Oversight
March 16, 2020
False Warnings of Soviet Missile Attacks Put U.S. Forces on Alert in 1979-1980
April 10, 2020
Tracking the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
June 4, 2020
Tiananmen Massacre 31 Years Ago in China
July 21, 2020
The U.S. Nuclear Presence in Western Europe, 1954-1962, Part I
August 4, 2020
The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II
September 16, 2020
The U.S. Nuclear Presence in Western Europe, 1954-1962, Part II
October 16, 2020
Reconnaissance Flights and U.S.-China Relations
November 10, 2020
Duplicity and Self-Deception: Israel, the United States, and the Dimona Inspections, 1964-65
January 15, 2021
US Nuclear Weapons in the Netherlands: A First Appraisal
March 17, 2021
Alerts, Crises, and DEFCONs
April 8, 2021
Crises, Alerts, and DEFCONS, 1961-1976 – Part II
May 13, 2021
The British Bomb and the United States - Part One
May 28, 2021
Nuclear War with China? Tensions Over Taiwan Raise Profile of 1958 Crisis
June 7, 2021
Israeli Attack on Iraq's Osirak 1981: Setback or Impetus for Nuclear Weapons?
July 16, 2021
Concern About Future U.S. Reliability Influenced British Quest for Trident Missiles
August 30, 2021
Pakistan’s Nuclear Program Posed “Acute Dilemma” for U.S. Policy
October 14, 2021
"How Much is Enough?": The U.S. Navy and "Finite Deterrence"
December 10, 2021
Strategic Stability and Instability during the Middle Years of the Cold War
March 24, 2022
Colonel Odom’s “Chilling” Four A.M. Phone Call
March 28, 2022
NATO’s European Nuclear Deterrent: The B61 Bomb
June 2, 2022
Nuclear Winter: U.S. Government Thinking During the 1980s
August 8, 2022
77th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings: Revisiting the Record
September 13, 2022
The Moscow Signals Declassified
Microwave Mysteries: Projects PANDORA and BIZARRE
September 15, 2022
The Moscow Signals Declassified
Microwave Diplomacy, 1967-1977
September 22, 2022
The Moscow Signals Declassified:
Irradiating Richard Nixon
October 21, 2022
The Cuban Missile Crisis @ 60
Briefing NATO Allies
November 18, 2022
New Declassifications on Nuclear Weapons Safety and Security
December 9, 2022
The U.S., Canada, and the Indian Nuclear Program, 1968-1974
February 16, 2023
The Jupiter Missiles and the Endgame of the Cuban Missile Crisis, 60 Years Ago
March 20, 2023
Filming Armageddon: Air Force Movies Depict U.S. Preparations for Nuclear War
March 24, 2023
The Movement and the “Madman”
April 20, 2023
The Jupiter Missiles and the Cuban Missile Crisis Endgame
May 25, 2023
Henry Kissinger’s Documented Legacy
June 6, 2023
Nuclear Weapons and the Law of War
July 18, 2023
The Presidential Nuclear "Football" From Eisenhower to George W. Bush
August 7, 2023
78th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings: Revisiting the Record
September 21, 2023
Humanitarian Law of War: The U.S.-NATO Review of Additional Protocol I, 1978-1986
October 26, 2023
The Discovery of South Africa’s Secret Nuclear Test Site, August 1977
November 29, 2023
Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary
December 6, 2023
Recent Nuclear Declassifications and Denials: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
February 13, 2024
The Kissinger Telcons: The Story Behind the Story
February 29, 2024
Castle BRAVO at 70: The Worst Nuclear Test in U.S. History
March 15, 2024
U.S. National Archives’ 2025 Budget Request Threatens Mission Failure
April 17, 2024
New State Department History Details Nuclear Targeting and Continuity of Government, 1977-1980
May 31, 2024
Ivory Item: Carter First U.S. President to Participate in Nuclear Drill
July 16, 2024
The First Atomic Explosion, 16 July 1945
July 22, 2024
History Coalition Warns of Critical Needs at National Archives
August 8, 2024
Manhattan Project Director’s Files Illuminate Early History of Atomic Bomb
October 30, 2024
Investigating the Climate Impacts of Nuclear War
December 17, 2024
1960 Intelligence Report Said Israeli Nuclear Site Was for Weapons
January 23, 2025
Nuclear Proliferation and the “Nth Country Experiment”
April 22, 2025
U.S. Intelligence on South Asian Conflict Scenarios
June 3, 2025
The United States and Greenland, Part I: Episodes in Nuclear History 1947-1968
June 25, 2025
History of U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy, 1969-1977, Detailed in
New Declassified Documents Collection
July 16, 2025
80 Years Ago: The First Atomic Explosion, 16 July 1945
August 5, 2025
The Atomic Bombings of Japan and the End of World War II, 80 Years Later
September 25, 2025
80th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings: Revisiting the Record
October 15, 2025
The United States and Greenland: Episodes in Nuclear History, 1957-1968
Part II: The B-52 Crash and Its Impact