Johnston's Archive--Nuclear Weapons (original) (raw)

North Korea's first nuclear test

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** on strategic defense:
• 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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