Johnston's Archive Nuclear Weapons

on weapons effects:

• The Effects of a Nuclear Attack on the Rio Grande Valley

• The Effects of a Global Thermonuclear War, 4th ed.

• Nuclear weapons effects--an overview
• Nuclear weapons effects: Some data

• High-altitude nuclear explosions

• Graphs of weapons effects

• Your annual radiation dose

on weapons design:

• Simplified schematic of a nuclear fission implosion weapon (typical atomic bomb, diagram)
• Simplified schematic of a multistage thermonuclear weapon (typical hydrogen bomb, diagram)

• Nuclear weapon yields vs. weight (graph)

on programs, weapons, and deployments:

• Strategic and theater nuclear forces:
  • Part 1: Introduction and sources
  • Part 2: United States
  • Part 3: Russia
  • Part 4: United Kingdom, France, and P.R. China
  • Part 5: Israel, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Iran
  • Part 6: Summary data

• U.S. and Soviet/Russian strategic warheads, 1984-1994 (graph)

  Nuclear stockpiles, cumulative estimates and graphs

  • including Cumulative estimates, introduction

• Listings of nuclear warhead types:
  • Introduction
  • United States
  • Soviet Union/Russia
  • United Kingdom
  • France
  • People's Republic of China
  • Other countries

• Multimegaton weapons: the largest nuclear weapons

• Nuclear weapons and fissile material in Israel

• Iran: WMD-related facilities

• Listings of strategic missile submarines:
  • United States
  • Soviet Union/Russia
  • United Kingdom
  • France
  • People's Republic of China
  • Israel

• Missile designations:
  • Missile designations, introduction
  • Soviet/Russian missile designations
  • PR Chinese missile designations

• Listing of Soviet/Russian naval vessels:
  • Introduction
  • Listing of Soviet/Russian naval vessels

• Ballistic Missile Defense and the Strategic Defense Initiative
• "U.S. should have missile defense system"
  • see also at The Brownsville Herald.

• President George W. Bush's Speech on National Missile Defense, 1 May 2001.

on nuclear testing:

• Nuclear tests--databases and other material

general material:

• Nuclear weapon milestones
  • Part 1
  • Part 1-B
  • Part 2

other material:

• Database of Radiological Incidents and Related Events

  • including List of radiation accidents and other events causing radiation casualties
  • Statistical summary of radiation accidents and other events causing radiation casualties
  • List of criticality accidents
  • and pages on individual incidents

• Nuclear terrorism:
  • Nuclear terrorism incidents
  • Osama bin Laden and nuclear weapons
  • Dirty bombs and other radiological weapons

• Nuclear Weapons in Film

NUCLEAR WEAPONS--INFORMATION LINKS

• United States government sources:
  • U.S. Department of Defense.
  • DOE Nevada Operations Office.

• foreign government sources:
  • CEA (French atomic energy agency) (English).

• organizations and sources in the United States:
  • Arms Control Association.
  • Brookings Institution.
  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
  • Center for Defense Information.
  • Center for Nonproliferation Studies--at the Monterrey Institute for International Studies.
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies.
  • Federation of American Scientists.
  • GlobalSecurity.org.
  • Heritage Foundation.
  • High Energy Weapons Archive--in depth information, including some of the most detailed information on the Internet regarding nuclear weapon physics.
  • High Frontier.
  • Institute for Science and International Security.
  • National Institute for Public Policy.
  • Nautilus.
  • Natural Resources Defense Council.
  • Submarine World Network.
  • Trinity Atomic Web Site.

• organizations outside the United States:
  • Bellona Foundation--foundation in Norway.
  • Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies--at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
  • Centre for Defense and International Security Studies (CDISS)--in the United Kingdom.
  • Jane's Information Group--publisher in the United Kingdom.
  • British American Security Information Council (BASIC).

Some recommended nuclear weapon documents

Banner image: Plumbbob Stokes, a 19 kt airburst test of the XW-30 conducted 7 August 1957 (credit: U.S. Department of Energy photograph).

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