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Just in Case Atom Bombs Fall (1951)

19Jul10

An exceedingly rare publication focused on atomic civil defense in Denver, Just in Case Atom Bombs Fall (Civil Defense Office of Denver, Colorado, 1951), carries the Federal Civil Defense Administration’ s (FCDA) logo, and is similar to many atomic docs published by FCDA. In addition to the colorful graphics, of note are the following: Civil […]

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Operation Crossroads (1946, 1947)

02Jul10

A revealing Top Secret Restricted Data* formerly classified memo from General Curtis Lemay and the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Board to General Carl Spaatz on Operation Crossroads, the first nuclear test in the Marshall Islands. Of note are the memo’s conclusions that clearly lay out the devastating effects of nuclear weapons: (1) “Atomic bombs […]

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Mannequins @ Operation Doorstep, 1953
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Articles & Books
- Barr, The How and Why Wonder Book of Atomic Energy
- Bernard Brodie Bibliography
- Brown (1971), The Social Responsibility of the Scientist
- Building the H Bomb, A Personal History (Ford, 2015)
- Cantelon, Hewlett, & Williams (1992), The American Atom: A Documentary History of Nuclear Policies from the Discovery of Fission to the Present
- Falk, The Promise of World Order
- Gerson, With Hiroshima Eyes
- Haber (1956), The Walt Disney Story of Our Friend the Atom
- Hansen, Swords of Armageddon
- Harbour, Thinking about International Ethics
- Kelly (2003), The Agency and the Atom
- Larson (1963), The Case Against the Nuclear Atom
- Makhijani & Yih, Nuclear Wastelands
- Mumford & Shub (1955), Alternatives to the H-Bomb
- Mumford (1953), Anticipations and Social Consequences of Atomic Energy
- Pringle (1981), The Nuclear Barons
- Sacks, The Atom at Work
- Schell, The Fate of the Earth
- Siegfried (2011), A Century Ago, Ernest Rutherford Inaugurated the Nuclear Age
- Udall (1998), The Myths of August
- Waste Lands America's Forgotten Nuclear Legacy (@Wall Street Journal)
- Weller (2007), First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War
- Winner (1980), The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology
atomic culture
- Atomic Heritage Foundation
- Atomic Testing Museum
- Atomic Toys
- Boyer, By the Bomb's Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
- CONELRAD
- Garrison, Bracing For Armageddon: Why Civil Defense Never Worked
- Henrikson, Dr. Strangelove's America: Society and Culture in the Atomic Age
- Hodge & Weinberger (2008) A Nuclear Family Vacation: Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry
- Literature & Culture of the American 1950s
- Lookout Mountain Air Force Station (@ DOE)
- Los Alamos Historical Society
- McEnaney, Civil Defense Begins at Home: Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties
- Nuclear Futures ~ Exploring the legacy of the atomic age through the arts
- NukePop
- Oakes (1994), The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture
- Parfrey, Apocalypse Culture
- Rawnsley (1999), Cold-War Propaganda in the 1950s
- Tho-Radia Beauty Ads
- Toys That Radiate Fun
- Warning Signage (Futures Panel)
- Zeman & Amundson (Eds.), Atomic Culture
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
- Assuring Public Safety in Continental Weapons Tests (1953)
- Atomic Test Effects in the Nevada Test Site Region (1955)
- Buck (1983), History of the Atomic Energy Commission
- Exercise Desert Rock (1951)
- Harker (1994), Elements of Controversy: the Atomic Energy Commission and Radiation Safety
- Hewlett & Anderson, Atomic Shield 1947/1952, History of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, vol.2
- Hewlett & Anderson, The New World, 1939/1946, History of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, vol. 1
- Hewlett & Holl (1989), Atoms for Peace and War: Eisenhower and the Atomic Energy Commission
- Joint Committee on Atomic Energy (AEC records 1946-1977)
- Mancuso @ The Lancet
- Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy: A Collection of Speeches by Glenn T. Seaborg
- Portsmouth Diffusion Plant (AEC, Piketon)
- Records of the Atomic Energy Commission 1923-75
- Should You Be an Atomic Scientist (1957)
- Strauss (1955), The Effects of High-Yield Nuclear Explosions
- Welsome (2000) This place Is a dump!
Atomic Tourism
- Bikini Dive & Tourism
- Bureau of Atomic Tourism
- Rest Stops of the Atomic Tourist
- Titan Missile Museum
Atoms for Peace
- (The) Atom and Biological Science (1953)
- (The) Atom and You (1953)
- Alario & Freudenburg (2007) Atoms for Peace, Atoms for War: Probing the Paradoxes of Modernity
- Atoms for Peace
- Atoms for Peace (n.d., AEC & USIA)
- Atoms for Peace (NBC Radio Discussion, December 8, 1953)
- Atoms for Peace Finding Aid, Eisenhower Library
- Atoms for War and Peace, 1939-1974, DOE Summary History 1977-1994
- Chance, Project Chariot: The Nuclear Legacy of Cape Thompson, Alaska
- DOE, Declassification of Yields of Nuclear Tests
- Eisenhower "Operation Candor" draft speech (1953)
- Kuznick (2011, April 13), Japan's nuclear history in perspective: Eisenhower and atoms for war and peace
- Lucas (1996), Campaigns of Truth: The Psychological Strategy Board and American Ideology, 1951-1953
- Peaceful Uses of the Atom @ DOE R & D
- Project Plowshare (Part I, 1961)
- Project Plowshare (Part II, 1961)
- Project Rulison
- Project Sherwood ( (1951-1958)
- Tanaka & Kuznick (2011), Japan, the Atomic Bomb, and the “Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Power”
- Yates, The Boom Years
Blogroll
- Bk of Secrets [my other blog]
Civil Defense Films
- A is for Atom (1953)
- Atomic Alert (Elementary version, 1951)
- Atomic Attack (1950)
- Dr. Milo's YouTube Channel – Cold War video culture
- Duck and Cover (1951)
- Our Cities Must Fight (1951)
- Self Preservation In An Atomic Attack (1950)
Climate
- Badash, A Nuclear Winter's Tale Science and Politics in the 1980s
- Bumsted, Nuclear Winter: The Anthropology of Human Survival (AAA, 1985)
- GAO, Nuclear Winter: Uncertainties Surround the Long-Term Effects of Nuclear War [NSIAD-86-62, March 27, 1986]
- Martin, Nuclear Winter: Science and Politics
- Nuclear Darkness, Global Climate Change & Nuclear Famine
- Nuclear Winter @ googlescholar
- Robock & Toon, South Asian Threat? Local Nuclear War = Global Suffering [Scientific American January, 2010]
- Robock, Climatic Consequences of Nuclear Conflict
- Romero (1984), Nuclear Winter: Implications for U.S. and Soviet Nuclear Strategy, Rand
- Schneider (1988), Whatever Happened to Nuclear Winter? [Editorial, Climatic Change 12 (3)]
- Turco & Sagan (1983), Global Atmospheric Consquences of Nuclear War
Comics & Graphic Novels
- (The) H-Bomb and You (1954)
- All-Atomic Comics (Leonard Rifas, 1976) | Educomics
- Atoman (1946)
- Atomic Mouse (1953)
- Atomic Rabbit
- Atomic Thunderbolt (1946)
- Barefoot Gen (1972, 1994)
- Briggs, When the Wind Blows
- Captain Atom (1948)
- Copp (1957), The Atomic Revolution
- Dagwood Splits the Atom (1949)
- Dr. Solar, Man of the Atom (1960)
- Firestorm, The Nuclear Man (1978)
- If an A-Bomb Falls (1951)
- Incredible Hulk
- Mr. Atom vs. Captain Marvel
- Radioactive Man
- Spiderman & the Radioactive Spider (1962)
- Szasz On Atomic Comics
DOE
- ACHRE Final Report
- DOE, The First 50 Years: A Review of the Department of Energy Domestic Safeguards and Security Program
- Emissions From Reactions in Nuclear Weapons (1963)
- Historical Records Declassification Guide (2005)
- Nuclear Testing Archive
Fallout
- (Edward A.) Martell articles on fallout @ googlescholar
- (The) Nature of Radioactive Fallout and its Effects on Man: Hearings before the Special Subcommittee on Radiation of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, 83rd Congress 1st session (1957)
- About Fallout (1963)
- Bradley (1948), No Place to Hide
- Conard (992), The Experiences of a Medical Team In the Care of a Marshallese Population Accidently Exposed to Fallout Radiation
- Defense Against Radioactive Fallout on the Farm, USDA (1958)
- Downwinders
- Exposure to I-131 Radiation (NCI)
- Feasibility Study of the Biological Effects of Fallout on People in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona (1981)
- Hearings & Reports @ GPO
- IEER, Fact Sheet on Fallout Report and Related Maps
- Lewis, French soldiers 'deliberately exposed' to nuclear tests (BBC)
- Miller, Under the Cloud (maps of fallout trajectories)
- Nuclear Fallout Maps
- Nuclear Testing @ IEER
- Radioactive Fallout from Global Weapons Testing (CDC)
- Radiological Defense (1961)
- Thompson, McArthur & Hutchinson (1994), Development of the Town Data Base: Estimates of Exposure Rates and Times of Fallout Arrival Near the Nevada Test Site
- United States Nuclear Tests July 1945 through September 1992
- Wyant (1959), 50,000 Baby Teeth
Federal Civil Defense Administration
- 6 Steps to Survival (1957)
- Facts about Fallout (1955)
- Operation Alert @ CONELRAD
- Operation Alert @ Internet Archive
- Operation Alert @ PBS
- Operation Alert Finding Aid @ the Eisenhower Library
- Operation Alert Protests in NYC (1955)
Films
- A Boy and His Dog
- Atomic Age Film Series (PSR)
- Atomic Battlefield (1974?)
- Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Compilation of Atomic Bomb Footage (1945)
- Atomic Cafe (1982)
- Atomic Films @ CONELRAD
- Barefoot Gen, Hadashi no Gen (1983)
- Beast of Yucca Flats (1961)
- Black Rain (1989)
- Blockzilla
- Chain Reaction (1980)
- Day One (1989)
- Dig That Uranium (1955)
- Dr. Strangelove (1964)
- Dreams (1990)
- Falling Angels (2003)
- Godzilla (1954)
- Hendershot, Paranoia, the Bomb, and 1950s Science Fiction Films
- Hibakusha Cinema
- Hiroshima Mon Amour
- I Live in Fear (1955)
- Killers from Space (1954)
- Mouse That Roared (1959)
- Nagasaki Year 0 (1956)
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- On the Beach (1959)
- Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
- Radio Bikini ~ A different look at Operation Crossroads (1988)
- Rocketship X-M…from the "Atomic Age to the Stone Age" (1950)
- Them (1954)
- War Game (1964)
Finding Aids
- Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues
- Atomic Energy & Nuclear History Learning Curriculum @ Oregon State
- Committees on Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation, 1954-1964
- DTIC
- Energy Citations Database
- Golden Rule and Phoenix Voyages in Protest of U.S. Nuclear Testing in the Marshall Islands (1958)
- Grendon (1965), Federal Radiation Council Guides
- Henry DeWolf Smyth Papers
- Information Bridge (DOE)
- Lists of Motion Picture Films and Videos at the National Nuclear Security Administration (Government Attic FOIA, 2013)
- NASA Technical Reports Server
Manhattan Project & Engineer District of the United States Army
- Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Gosling (1999), The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb
- Groves (1962), Now It Can Be Told
- Manhattan Project and the Development of the Atomic Bomb: Finding aid at CRL
- Uravan, Colorado
- Voices of the Manhattan Project
- Women Played Key Roles in the Manhattan Project (Historical Vignette 046, USACE)
Maps
- Japan Radiation Map
- Large-Scale Attack Simulator (USA)
- Near-Real-Time and Laboratory Data by State (EPA)
- NUKEMAP
- Radiation Network
- RadMap @ EPA
- Various maps @atomicarchive
Music
- Atomic Platters – music of the Cold War era
- Uranium Fever (1955)
National Archives and Records Administration
- (The) Atomic Age
- Cuban Missile Crisis @ the JFK Library
- Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963) @ the JFK Library
- Records of the Defense Civil Preparedness Agency
- Records of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Records of the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
- Records of the Office of Emergency Preparedness
Nevada Test Site
- Fehner & Gosling (2000), Origins of the Nevada Test Site
- Nevada Test Site 60th Anniversary @ Las Vegas Review-Journal
- Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation
- Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
Nuclear Power
- Amicus brief, Metropolitan Edison Co. v. People Against Nuclear Energy (1983)
- Atomic Energy, Chart of the Future (Time, 1955)
- British Nuclear Waste in the Irish Sea, TED Case Studies
- C-SPAN (3/21/2011), Regulators Give Update on Crisis in Japan
- C-SPAN (3/30/2011), Regulators Give Update on Crisis in Japan
- C-SPAN (4/02/2011), Regulators Give Update on Crisis in Japan
- C-SPAN (4/12/2011), Regulators Give Update on Crisis in Japan
- Calvert Cliffs Coordinating Committee v. United States Atomic Energy Commission
- Chernousenko, Chernobyl, Insight from the Inside (1991)
- Clamshell Legacy
- Clarke (1985), The Origins of Nuclear Power: A Case of Institutional Conflict
- Comey (1976), The Fire at the Brown's Ferry Nuclear Power Station
- Dwyer (2007), Windscale: A Nuclear Disaster
- Edwards (1982), Canada's Nuclear Dilemma
- Fermi Unit 1 history @UCS
- Freudenburg & Jones (1991), Attitudes and Stress in the Presence of Technological Risk: A Test of the Supreme Court Hypothesis
- Fukushima Observation Data (TEPCO)
- Fuller, We Almost Lost Detroit (1975)
- GAO (1985), The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Should Report on Progress in Implementing Lessons Learned From the Three Mile Island Accident
- Gofman & Tamplin, Poisoned Power (1971,1979)
- Gould, The Enemy Within
- Grossman, Cover Up
- Hertsgaard (1983), Nuclear, Inc.: The Men and Money Behind Nuclear Energy
- Hewlett & Duncan (1974). The Nuclear Navy, 1946-1962
- Higuchi, New respect for No-nukes Messenger
- Honiker ((1978), Honicker vs. Hendrie: A Lawsuit to End Atomic Power
- Honiker v. Hendrie (January 12, 1979)
- Japan in Focus: A Collection of the Bulletin's (Atomic Scientists) Coverage
- Jeannine Honicker, Petitioner, v. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission and United States of America, Respondents (1978)
- Kyodo News (2011) U.S. used atomic power cooperation to remedy Japan's 'ignorance'
- Marsh (2009), Reactor Worker Speaks out 50 Years after Meltdown (Santa Susana Field Laboratory)
- Metropolitan Edison Co. v. People Against Nuclear Energy (1983)
- Morgan (1999), The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk Through the Nuclear Age
- Nuclear Boy (Fukushima)
- Nuclear Controversies (2003)
- Nuclear Energy (1970?)
- Nuclear Fuel Cycle Cost Calculator (Bulleton of the Atomic Scientists)
- Peach Bottom Unit 3 (Outage dates: March 31, 1987 to December 1, 1989)
- Perrow (1984), Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
- Protest over TMI historical marker
- Reactor Safety Study: An Assessment of Accident Risks in U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Plants (CRAC-II)
- Reader (1989), Even as We Tie the Knot Tighter, Nuclear Power Remains Ungovernable
- Selected Readings on Chernobyl (including Weinberg's classic "A nuclear power advocate reflects on Chernobyl") at The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Selected Readings on Three Mile Island, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
- Shut Down: Nuclear Power on Trial (Honicker, 1979)
- SRE Fuel Element Damage Final Report, Santa Susana (1961)
- SRE Fuel Element Damage Interim Report, Santa Susana (Nov. 30, 1959)
- Strauss, My Faith in the Atomic Future (1955)
- Talbott (2000), Mortality among the Residents of the Three Mile Island Accident Area: 1979-1992
- TMI-2 Lessons Learned Task Force Final Report
- Trossman-Bien & Collins, 50 Years After America’s Worst Nuclear Meltdown
- Vallecitos Atomic Electric Power Plant (the first U.S. licensed nuclear power plant, November 25, 1957)
- Yury Bandazhevsky @ PEN
Nuclear Secrecy
- (The) Mayak Nuclear Disaster: 50 Years On
- Agreement Between the International Atomic Energy Agency and the World Health Organization
- Benedict (2011), The Road Not Taken: Can Fukushima Put Us on a Path Toward Nuclear Transparency?
- Consider the Rights of Future Generations Nuclear Contamination and the Cousteau Society's Proposed Bill of Rights
- Cox & Howald (2011), Keizer vet survived nuke testing
- Ethic of Nuclear Guardianship — Values to Guide Decision-Making on the Management of Radioactive Materials
- Government Views of the Rosenberg Spy Case @ CCNY Libraries
- H-Bomb Secret (The Progressive, 1979)
- Human Radiation Experiments (HREX) Archives (includes oral histories)
- Human Radiation Experiments ~ DOE Roadmap
- Marshall Islands Nuclear Document Database
- McMahon, U.S. Nuclear Stockpile Secrecy: A View from 1949
- Medvedev (1979), Nuclear Disaster in the Urals
- Nuclear Guardianship Library
- Restricted Data: Nuke Secrecy Blog
- Shils (1956) The Torment of Secrecy
- SIPRI (2010), Secrecy in Nuclear Weapon Governance Persists—Even in Open Societies
- Sternglass (1982), Secret Fallout
- Sternglass Interview, Suppressed Information (1992)
- Wasserman & Solomon (1982), Killing Our Own
- Welsome, The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
- WHO Agreement with IAEA (1959)
Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization
- Family Fallout Shelter (1959)
Office of Civil Defense, DoD
- Fallout Protection: What to Know and Do about Nuclear Attack (1961)
- In Time of Emergency A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968)
- Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack (1959)
Office of Emegency Planning, DoD
- Emergency Plans Book (1958)
- Keeney, The Doomsday Scenario
Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)
- Coastal Effects of Offshore Energy Systems: An Assessment of Oil and Gas Systems, Deepwater Ports, and Nuclear Powerplants Off the Coasts of New Jersey and Delaware (November 1976)
- Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions (1989)
- Effects of Nuclear War (May 1979)
- Hazards Ahead: Managing Cleanup Worker Health and Safety at the Nuclear Weapons Complex (February 1993)
- Long-Lived Legacy: Managing High-Level and Transuranic Waste at the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex (May 1991)
- Nuclear Power in an Age of Uncertainty (February 1984)
- Nuclear Wastes in the Arctic: An Analysis of Arctic and Other Regional Impacts From Soviet Nuclear Contamination (September 1995)
Radiation Exposure & Health
- A Feasibility Study of the Biological Effects of Fallout on People in Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, DHHS, Bureau of Radiological Health (1981)
- ACHRE, National Institutes of Health, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the Quaker Oats Company Cereal Experiments
- Assessing Health Risks From Nuclear Facilities (Rocky Flats Historical Public Exposures Studies)
- Atomic Energy as a Force for Good (Part 1, 1955)
- Atomic Energy as a Force for Good (Part 2, 1955)
- Bobb, Invisible Legacy: Western Shoshone & the Nuclear Era
- Broken Arrows: The Palomares and Thule Accidents
- Caufield (1989), Multiple Exposures: Chronicles of the Radiation Age
- Centers for Disease Control, Radioactive Fallout from Global Weapons Testing
- Clarke & Valentin (2008), The History of ICRP and the Evolution of its Policies
- Committee For Nuclear Responsibility Publications
- Committee on Thyroid Screening Related to I-131, et al (1999), Exposure of the American People to Iodine-131 from Nevada Nuclear-Bomb Tests: Review of the National Cancer Institute Report and Public Health Implications
- Davidson (2005), Radiation: Any Dose Is Too High
- Epstein (2003), Stop Cancer before it Starts (NCI thyroid study)
- Estimating Plutonium Releases from Unmonitored Sources at Rocky Flats (Rocky Flats Historical Public Exposures Studies)
- Ethic of Nuclear Guardianship — Values to Guide Decision-Making on the Management of Radioactive Materials
- Federal Radiation Council Reports
- Flemming (1959), The Federal Radiation Council
- GAO (1981), Problems in Assessing the Cancer Risks of Low-Level Ionizing Radiation Exposure
- GAO (1985), Probabilistic Risk Assessment: An Emerging Aid to Nuclear Power Plant Safety Regulation
- GAO (2000), Radiation Standards: Scientific Basis Inconclusive, and EPA and NRC Disagreement Continues
- GAO, Nuclear Health and Safety:Examples of Post WWII Radiation Releases at U.S. Nuclear Sites
- Gofman, Beware the Data Diddlers (1993)
- Goldman (1997), The Russian Radiation Legacy: Its Integrated Impact and Lessons
- Grendon (1965), Federal Radiation Council Guides
- Hacker (1994), Elements of Controversy: The Atomic Energy Commission and Radiation Safety in Nuclear Weapons Testing, 1947-1974
- Health Effects of Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation: BEIR V (1990)
- Hengstenberg, Sager, & Gebhardt (2011), Atomic Deserts: A Survey of the World's Radioactive No-Go Zones
- Hollywood and the downwinders still grapple with nuclear fallout (Carroll, The Guardian 6/6/15)
- I-131 Radiation Exposure Calculator for NTS Fallout
- Ikipelov, et al., Report on a Radiological Accident in the Southern Urals on 29 September 1957
- International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale
- IPPNW & IEER, Radioactive Heaven and Earth: The Health and Environmental Effects of Nuclear Weapons Testing In, On, and Above the Earth
- Johnson v. Jefferson County Board of Health (1983)
- Johnston, Half-Lives & Half-Truths Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War
- Klausner (1997), Estimated Exposures & Thyroid Doses Received by the American People from I-131 in Fallout
- Makhijani, Franke, & Zerriffi (2000), Forgotten Exposures: Worker Doses at Three Nuclear Materials Processing Plants in the 1940s and 1950s
- Mancuso, Stewart, & Kneale (1977), Radiation Exposures of Hanford Workers Dying from Cancer and Other Causes
- Marshall Islands Fallout and Radiation, Health Physics Society Journal (2010, 99, no.2)
- Marshall Islands Nuclear Document Database
- Marshall Islands, Where U.S. Ran 67 Nuclear Weapon Tests, More Contaminated than Fukushima and Chernobyl (Newsweek, 7/16/19)
- Medical Aspects of Nuclear Radiation (1950)
- Morgan (1978, September) Cancer & Low Level Ionizing Radiation, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
- National Academies of Science Hearings on Radiation Effects in St. George, Utah (2003)
- National Cancer Institute, NCI Reports on I-131
- National Cancer Institute, Radioactive I-131 from Fallout
- Nuclear Detonation Preparedness: Communicating in the Immediate Aftermath (2010)
- Nuclear Guardianship Library
- Nussbaum & Köhnlein (1994), Inconsistencies and Open Questions Regarding Low-Dose Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation
- Nussbaum (2003), Appreciation for "Remembering Alice Stewart"
- Ortmeyer & Makhijani (1997), Let Them Drink Milk
- Physicians and Nuclear Abolition:The Medical Consequences of Nuclear War
- Putnam, The Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Retrospect (1998)
- Radiation Effects Research Foundation
- Radiation Exposure in U.S. Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Testing
- Radiation I-131 from Fallout @ NCI
- Radiation Survey Instruments @ Oak Ridge
- Radioactive Fallout and Shelter (1965)
- Radiological Effluents Released from U.S. Continental Tests, 1961 through 1992
- Report of the Interagency Task Force on the Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation (Libassi Task Force, 1979)
- Report of the Joint Commission for the Investigation of the Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan; Volume I (1951)
- Report of the Joint Commission for the Investigation of the Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan; Volume II (1951)
- Report of the Joint Commission for the Investigation of the Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan; Volume III (1951)
- Report of the Joint Commission for the Investigation of the Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan; Volume IV (1951)
- Report of the Joint Commission for the Investigation of the Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan; Volume V (1951)
- Report of the Joint Commission for the Investigation of the Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan; Volume VI (1951)
- Risk to Human Health and the Environment (Rocky Flats Historical Public Exposures Studies)
- Simon, Bouville, & Land (2006), Fallout from Nuclear Weapons Tests and Cancer Risks
- Solomon & Marston (1986), Medical Implications of Nuclear War
- Source Term Estimates (Rocky Flats Historical Public Exposures Studies)
- Survival Under an Atomic Attack (1951)
- The Link Between Uranium from the Congo and Hiroshima: A Story of Twin Tragedies (Williams, 2016)
- Uncertainty in Analyzing Health Risks (Rocky Flats Historical Public Exposures Studies)
- Walker (2000), Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation
SciFi
- Bartter, The Way to Ground Zero: the Atomic Bomb in American Science Fiction
- Berger, The Triumph of Prophecy: Science Fiction and Nuclear Power in the Post-Hiroshima Period
- Martian Chronicles
Shelters
- (The) Greenbrier: Five Star Fallout Shelter @ CONELRAD
- Altman, et al (1961), Psychological and Social Adjustment in a Simulated Shelter
- Melman, No Place to Hide: Fact and Fiction about Fallout Shelters
- Rose, One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture
- West (1962), Fallout Shelter Handbook
Test Films
- (The) Air Force Story & the Atom Bomb (1959)
- (The) Atom Bomb ~ Newsreels from Hiroshima, Bikini, Operation Doorstep, etc.
- (The) Atom Soldier (1955)
- (The) Atom Strikes! (1945)
- Atomic Alert (1951)
- Atomic Films @ Prelinger Archives/Internet Archive
- Australian Atomic Confessions (2007)
- Bethge, Surviving Cameramen Recall Nuclear Test Shots, (Spiegel Online, 11/25/10)
- Historical Test Films @ DOE/NNSA
- House in the Middle (1954)
- Living with the atom (1957)
- Operation Greenhouse (1951)
- Operation Hardtack (1958)
- Operation Ivy (1952)
- OSTI, United States Nuclear Tests With Unannounced Simultaneous Detonations
- Plowshare (Part I) (1961)
- Project Dugout (1960)
- Tale of Two Cities (War Department, 1946)
- Test films @ Critical Commons
Weapons & War
- (The) Bomb Project
- (The) Clean Bomb (Time, 1957)
- Allen (1952), Atomic Imperialism: the State, Monopoly, and the Bomb
- Alvarez (2006), The Risks of Making Nuclear Weapons
- Anglo-American Declaration of Trust (1944)
- Atomic Archive
- Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II A Collection of Primary Sources (National Security Archive, updated 2015)
- Atomic John @ The New Yorker
- Atomic Trucker (2011)
- Boyle, Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence
- Brodie, (ed), The Absolute Weapon: Atomic Power and World Order
- Brown (1971), Recovery from a Nuclear Attack. (A Study Based upon a Hypothetical 1973 War Scenario).
- Burns, The Nuclear Present: A Guide to Recent Books on Nuclear War, Weapons, the Peace Movement, and Related Issues, with a Chronology of Nuclear Events, 1789-1991
- Burr (2007), The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II, National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 162
- Burr (2011), The French Bomb, with Secret U.S. Help @ National Security Archive
- Bush (1949), Modern Arms and Free Men: A Discussion of the Role of Science in Preserving Democracy
- Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (London, 1958)
- Carnesale (1983), Living with Nuclear Weapons : The Harvard Nuclear Study Group
- City on Fire (Eden, 2014)
- CTBTO FAQs
- Desert Voices (1988- )
- Disarmament & Non-Proliferation Portal @ UN Cyberschoolbus
- Falk (2011, March 15), Learning from Disaster? After Sendai
- Glasstone & Dolan (1977), The Effects of Nuclear Weapons
- Ground Zero: Nuclear Explosions Map
- Herken, The Winning Weapon: the Atomic Bomb in the Cold War, 1945-1950
- Hibakusha Voices @ Asahi Shimbun
- Hoban (1980) Riddley Walker
- Hoffman, The Dead Hand
- International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
- Kaufman (1985), Theology for a Nuclear Age
- Letter from Albert Einstein to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1939)
- Lost Photographs of Hiroshima
- Minder (2011, April 5), Spain and U.S. Near Accord on Atomic Cleanup
- Moral Dilemma of Nuclear Weapons: Essays from Worldview, a journal of religion and international affairs
- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
- Nuclear Blast Maps @ PBS
- Nuclear Vault (Natl Security Archive)
- Origins of the Peace Symbol
- Rhodes, Making of the Atomic Bomb
- Richelson (2006), Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea
- Russell-Einstein Manifesto (1955)
- Schweitzer, Declaration of Conscience, April 24, 1957
- Smyth (1962), Publication of the Smyth Report, IAEA Bulletin
- Smyth Report: Atomic Energy for Military Purposes
- Strauss (1949), Letter on the Development of the Thermonuclear Bomb
- The Link Between Uranium from the Congo and Hiroshima: A Story of Twin Tragedies (Williams, 2016)
- Truman Library, The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
- UK MAUD Report (1941)
- Wilson, Language Games
- Wittner, Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement
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Federal Civil Defense Administration

Films

Finding Aids

Manhattan Project & Engineer District of the United States Army

Maps

Music

National Archives and Records Administration

Nevada Test Site

Nuclear Power

Nuclear Secrecy

Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization

Office of Civil Defense, DoD

Office of Emegency Planning, DoD

Office of Technology Assessment (OTA)

Radiation Exposure & Health

SciFi

Shelters

Test Films

Weapons & War