Nuclear Vault Project Postings

Illustration from a 1985 report by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientist Michael MacCracken, showing smoke and soot lofted from nuclear detonations on day 1 and the passage of the smoke 5, 10, and 20 days later (See Document 13, “Global Atmospheric Effects of Nuclear War”)

Investigating the Climate Impacts of Nuclear War

Manhattan Project Director’s Files Illuminate Early History of Atomic Bomb

10.7 seconds after explosion

The First Atomic Explosion, 16 July 1945

President Jimmy Carter with the Joint Chiefs and Secretary of Defense Harold Brown meeting for breakfast, 20 November 1977

Ivory Item: Carter First U.S. President to Participate in Nuclear Drill

President Jimmy Carter approaching the National Emergency Airborne Command Post [NEACP]

New State Department History Details Nuclear Targeting and Continuity of Government, 1977-1980

Frame from "Commander's Report, Operation Castle" film

Castle BRAVO at 70: The Worst Nuclear Test in U.S. History

JFK and Stikker

Recent Nuclear Declassifications and Denials: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Adviser Zbigniew Brezinski, President Jimmy Carter, and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance

The Discovery of South Africa’s Secret Nuclear Test Site, August 1977

Secretary of State George Shultz (left), President Reagan (center) and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger.

Humanitarian Law of War: The U.S.-NATO Review of Additional Protocol I, 1978-1986

Atomic Bomb Damage In Nagasaki, Japan

78th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings: Revisiting the Record