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Treaty Between The United States Of America And The Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics On The Elimination Of Their Intermediate-Range And Shorter-Range Missiles (INF Treaty)

The treaty marked the first agreement between the two superpowers to reduce their nuclear arsenals, rather than simply limit their growth. It…

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…

Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich

A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to…

Y.I. Chazov, Minister of Health, to the CPSU CC, 'Medical Aspects of the Accident at Chernobyl AEhS'

A summary of the measures taken by health ministries in the aftermath of the accident, laid out in narrative format.