Nuclear History

@NPIHP

The Nuclear Proliferation International History project: a global network of nuclear historians tweeting formerly secret historical documents.

Washington, DC
wilsoncenter.org/npihp
Joined November 2010
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    Feb 4

    In this episode of International History Declassified, we speak with historian Or Rabinowitz about Israeli nuclear history and what present-day and future nuclear negotiators can learn by reading the archival materials.

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    24 Nov 2020

    "The African National Congress and Apartheid South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Program," a new paper from Jo-Ansie van Wyk and Anna-Mart van Wyk

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    19 Oct 2020

    “Connolly [...] proposed that the United States make available to the Security Council an air force armed with a “bucket full of atomic bombs” as a means to “preserve the peace of the world” [...]” Such a fascinating piece from .

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  4. 19 Oct 2020

    Ryan Musto traces the history of a surprising idea: arming the United Nations with nuclear weapons. US officials weighed the proposal from 1945 through the 1960s as they pursued disarmament goals

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  5. 9 Oct 2020

    Live in 15 minutes "Managing Nuclear Risks" w/ Robert Litwak

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  6. 7 Oct 2020

    Susan Colbourn and Timothy Sayle introduce Canada's deep connections to international nuclear history

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  7. 7 Oct 2020

    Upcoming Webcast: "Managing Nuclear Risks" w/ Rob Litwak, Mitchell Reiss, and Helene Cooper. Friday 10/9 11:00am-12:00pm EST

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  8. 31 Aug 2020

    More than 40 years after the VELA event, there is still no reliable public, non-circumstantial, information that settles the controversy. Yet the debate remains a live one.

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  9. 4 Aug 2020

    Soviet officials who visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki tended to downplay the effects of the atomic bomb

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    25 Jun 2020

    How to handle an ally in pursuit of nuclear weapons? New research by Timothy P. McDonnell examines the shifting case of US policy toward France.

    Preventing *all* proliferation is a major goal. A nuclear test is a critical milestone in a proliferator's journey. Even a few nukes is cause for concern. These tenets were not always true. Case in point: . New research in .
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  11. 11 Jun 2020

    David Holloway draws on documents from Stalin’s personal fond to assess the Soviet Union’s position vis-à-vis the Baruch plan for the international control of atomic energy in 1947

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  12. 4 Jun 2020

    The “Islamic Bomb”: Perceptions of Middle Eastern Nuclear Proliferation, 1979–1989, by

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  13. 4 Jun 2020

    “We Are Not a Nonproliferation Agency”: Henry Kissinger's Failed Attempt to Accommodate Nuclear Brazil, 1974–1977

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  14. 11 May 2020

    Michal Onderco on lessons of the NPT’s extension for the next Review Conference

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    18 Feb 2020

    Oslo Nuclear Reading Group seminar with Eliza Gheorghe March 16th. If you want to participate, register here:

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    17 Feb 2020

    Another 4 days to go for our CfP on Global histories of activism - please consider submitting, already have received amazing proposals

    Call for Papers - "Global histories of anti-nuclear and peace activism in the late Cold War," taking place 22-23 May at the London School of Economics. Paper proposals due 21 February. See more at:
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    14 Feb 2020

    Ph.D. students: Apply for the 2020 Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research

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  18. 11 Feb 2020

    On January 9, 2020, we co-hosted a conference on Egyptian nuclear diplomacy with King's College's and 's Karim Haggag. For more info:

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    11 Feb 2020

    Excited to see my latest article out in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies on how the British and the Canadians tried to overcome NATO's Siberian pipeline problems––and the much-needed boost their cause got from George Shultz. (Full version: )

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  20. 7 Feb 2020

    Call for Papers - Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear and Peace Activism in the Late Cold War - due 2/21

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