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U.S. Air Force Project RAND, Implications of Large-Yield Nuclear Weapons, 10 July 1952, Top Secret, Excised Copy
One of the implications of the Harmon report, that 133 atomic bombs were not enough to break the Soviet Union, may have fed into the pressure for the hydrogen-bomb or “super” that accelerated after the Soviets tested an atomic device in August 1949.
Processing and analysis of commercial satellite image data of the nuclear accident near Chernobyl, U.S.S.R.
Analyzing the aftermath of areas around Chernobyl using satellite imaging.
Excerpt from report by the Ad Hoc Committee to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “Evaluation of Effect on Soviet War Effort Resulting from the Strategic Air Offensive,” 12 May 1949, Top Secret, excised copy.
The first systematic effort to estimate the destruction to the Soviet Union that a U.S. atomic attack would cause and the extent to which the destruction would be decisive to the outcome of a U.S.-Soviet war.
CHERNOBYL.
Pages 6 - 11 of "Issues in Science and Technology", Vol. 3, No. 2
Speaks on the beginnings of Chernobyl and some insight of the event.
Speaks on the beginnings of Chernobyl and some insight of the event.
Technician checking our car for radiation
Technician checking a car for radiation, but the monitor was off so that no one knew if there was real radiation on it.
Speech by Mikhail Gorbachev to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, "Europe as a Common Home"
Mikhail Gorbachev Delivers a Speech to the Council of Europe about the change of direction of the Soviet Union from that of the Brezhnev Doctrine
Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher March 30, 1987, Moscow
Margaret Thatcher Talks to Mikhail Gorbachev
Johnson, Lyndon B., 1961: January-May
Vice President Johnson's evaluation of the space program in the US