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- Collection: Cold War (Global Focus) - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)
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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 specifically required the elimination of all ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges…
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.
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 the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and…
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.